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You can change the color of all of the type on a page or you can change the color of a selected section of type on a page.

You can also change the colors of your hyperlinks, active hyperlinks, and visited hyperlinks.

Remember that when you change the color of your type, you must be sure you are providing a high contrast with the background of your page.

To change the color of all of the text on a page, 

  • Choose Modify,  Page Properties from the drop down menu
  • The Page Properties dialog box will appear. It will be set to the Appearance category.
  • Click on the Text Color drop down box to bring up the color palette.
Page Properties Text Color

Choose your color and click on Apply.

To change your link colors, go to Modify, Page Properties from the main menu. When the Page Properties dialog box appears, choose the Links category.

Page Properties Links

From here you can use the dropdown menus to change the colors of your links in all of their states.

For more information on hyperlink states, go to Links: Overview.

To change the color of selected text, highlight the text, then click on the Text Color dropdown box on the Properties panel to choose a new text color. Text Color. Note that you can also type the hexadecimal value for your color in the text box to the right of the Text Color window.

For more information on choosing colors, go to Change Color on a Page.

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