Hi Jazz43,

That change will only affect new documents, not existing ones.

If deleting the 'Normal' template had no effect (this would delete any default font colour settings you might have applied), something else must be going on.



Ultimately, the automatic color is determined by the "Windows Text" color set in Control PanelDisplayAppearance. Changing this color will affect text color in all Windows applications. Check what you have it set to there.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I'm having the same problem.
Except I can't seem to find where I can edit the "Windows Text"...

Please help!