Ease of Access & High Contrast Themes Problems


  1. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Sp1
       #1

    Ease of Access & High Contrast Themes Problems


    I give up! I am trying to assist a family friend who has macular degeneration & VERY poor eyesight. He uses his new PC with Win7 (x64) primarily for creating documents in whatever the latest version of Corel's WordPerfect suite is out now (6?). On his VISTA machine, he uses the Alt+Shift+PrintScr combo to turn on the high contrast theme before starting WP. It turns the background black, the text to bright white, and hyperlinks are in bright yellow. I spent hours today trying to get the same results under Win7, but WP insists on showing hypertext links in dark blue, which is invisible to him. I'm not familiar with WP (haven't used it since DOS 6.22!), but I followed its less-than-direct instructions for modifying this... but it just doesn't stick. I can't tell if the issue is with WP, Win7 or what. Can a WP/Win7 guru help me with this? The poor man's machine is nearly useless to him without light, bright text on a dark (preferably black) background.

    Any suggestions or work-arounds would be greatly appreciated!:)
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  2. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #2

    See if this helps:

    TIP #16 - CHANGING THE BACKGROUND COLOR (All Versions)

    You can have WordPerfect use the background and text colors you've set up in Windows instead of the default white background and black text. First, you need to tell WordPerfect to use the Windows colors.

    To do this in WordPerfect 8 & 9:
    From the menu, select TOOLS/Settings
    Double-click Display
    Click on Document Tab
    Select Windows System Colors
    Click OK
    Click CLOSE

    To do this in WordPerfect 6.1 & 7.0:
    From the menu, select EDIT/Preferences
    Double-click Display
    Click on Document Tab
    Select Windows System colors
    Click OK

    Then, change the colors using the Windows Control Panel:
    On the Windows NT/95 Taskbar
    Choose Start/Settings/Control Panel
    Double-click the Display Icon
    Select the Appearance TAB at the top of the dialog box
    From the Item drop-down list, select Windows to change the editing screen background. Select the color you want from the Color pop-down palette.

    Change the color of any other areas by selecting the Item from the
    drop-down list (or by clicking it in the preview area in the top half of the dialog box) and then selecting the desired color.

    To change the font color
    Select the Color pop-down palette to the right of the Font drop-down list. When you've finished, choose OK
    Choose FILE/Close to exit Control Panel.
    Source

    I suspect the "use windows colors" is the issue, but it may also defeat the purpose of the high contrast. Knowing the exact version of WordPerfect used would also help narrow down the search.

    You might also try changing the Advanced color and appearance

    Window Color and Appearance - Change

    Perhaps the last screenshot in step 8, Window

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