WD98: Text Color Changes When Formatting HTML Body Text (180048)

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This behavior while working on HTML documents is different from the behavior when working on non-HTML documents.

Working with non-HTML documents

With non-HTML documents, text formatted with a color of Auto, will take on the default font color. Any change to the default font color will be reflected in the text formatted with the color of Auto.

Text formatted with a font color of something other than Auto is said to be "directly formatted" with that color. Direct formatting overrides changes in the default font color. For example, if you format text with the color of Black, and then change the default font color to Blue, the text formatted as Black will remain Black. Text formatted with a font color of Auto will change to Blue.

Working with HTML Documents

In HTML documents black color behaves like the Auto color would in a non- HTML document, and Auto color behaves like direct formatting.

For Example:

1. Type the following lines of text and format them with the indicated colors:

   Format this line as Auto color.
   Format this line as Black color.
   Format this line as Blue color.

2. Change the default text color. On the Format menu, click Text Colors and change the Body Text Color to red.
3. The results are:

   Format this line as Auto color. --> remains black
   Format this line as Black color. --> changes to red, the new default
   Format this line as Blue color. --> remains blue

The first line remains Black because the Auto color is considered direct formatting, and therefore remains unchanged. The same is true for the third line of text. The Blue color is directly formatted and remains unchanged when the default color changes. The second line changes to reflect the default color change, because Black is not considered to be direct formatting in HTML documents.

For additional information about this problem in Microsoft Word for Windows, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: