Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated April 6, 2019)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Microsoft 365
Steve has a document which, in various places, uses a text color that has an RGB value of 102, 255, 255. This, in the end, proved an inadequate color for his needs, so he needs to change the color of all that text to have an RGB value of 181, 255, 255. Steve wonders if there is a way to make the change all at once.
There are three ways you can go about approaching this problem. The first is to rely on styles. The idea would be to create a character style for the text you want in that particular color. When you are creating the document, apply that style to all those words you want to appear in that color. Then, when you need to change the color (or any other attributes of that text), simply make your changes to the style. This results in all instances of text to which the style is applied being updated, immediately.
The second approach is to simply use Find and Replace. Follow these steps:
Finally, you can always use a macro to make the replacements. This is particularly useful if you have a large number of documents in which you need to make the same change. The following macro essentially automates the Find-and-Replace steps just presented.
Sub FixColor() With Selection.Find .ClearFormatting .Font.Color = RGB(102, 255, 255) .Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = True .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .Replacement.ClearFormatting .Replacement.Font.Color = RGB(181, 255, 255) .Replacement.Text = "" End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll End Sub
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2022-05-26 19:26:08
Brother Monk
Please let me thank you for your help. No one else has been able to help me with my problem. I've been very ill for the past year, and my medications have caused my vision to blur.
I'm a monk. My community chants the psalms as a part of our community prayers 5 times daily. My blurred vision has made it difficult to read from our Psalm books and chant with my brothers. I ofter lose my place.
We vary chanting between 2 different sides of our community, sitting as a choir. I thought it would be easier for me to keep my place if I could print a Psalm book that alternates the color of a Psalm's verses, allowing me to quickly identify "which color verses" my section of the community is chanting for a particular Psalm. Then, if I lose my place, I can quickly scan verses in "my section's color," and hopefully more quickly find the right place to rejoin the chanting.
Black is easy to read and so would be one color for a verse's lettering. I had to try several other colors to find out which was easiest for me to read. It was tedious and slow to work through 285 pages changing the color of every other verse. It took days for me to work through only one version of a book. I would make mistakes, particularly at the beginning of a new section of pages. I had to check my work over and over.
The information you freely shared is a Godsend. I now have been able to try books with verses of many different colors and have found the color that works best for me. I can't describe how good it feels to read from my new Psalm book with verses of alternating colors that I can clearly read. My new book may be simple, but it is beautiful to me. I can join my community in our prayerful chanting without worrying about being unable to find my place if I get lost. Thank you so very much.
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