Changing Text Color

There may be times when you want your text to appear in different colors. This is particularly helpful for emphasis or for use with a color printer. A very easy way to do this is to use the Font Color tool on the toolbar. If you want, you can make the process even easier by creating your own tool that assigns a single specific color to text.

To accomplish this effect under Word 6 or Word 95, follow these steps:

1. Choose Toolbars from the View menu. This displays the Toolbars dialog box.
2. In the Toolbars dialog box click Customize.
3. On the Toolbars tab of the Customize dialog box, select the All Commands option in the list of Categories. This displays all the Word commands available.
4. In the Commands list, choose Color. A Color drop-down list appears near the bottom right corner of the dialog box.
5. Choose the color you want to use from the Color drop-down list.
6. In Step 4 you selected the Color option from the Commands list. Click on that option again and drag it to a toolbar. When you release the mouse button, the Custom Button dialog box appears.
7. Click the Assign button. This assigns the text of the color's name (such as "Red") to the toolbar button.
8. Click on Close to close the Toolbars dialog box.