Using WORD to create music sheet and color shading (mouse, work, highlight)

[howard555]

Each line of music will have a different color on the last word, so the performer can more easily detect the end of the line vs. the first of the next line. Beside font color is text highlight color and the only lighter ones are green, yellow, turquoise. To get more colors there is shading in the themes section. However in there it colors the entire line. Any solutions?

[Tek_Freek]

Why are the color options so limited? I thought Word would produce almost any color text you want.

[bigbear99]

According to one website, confirmed by my own deep dive into MS word options:

"The colors used for highlighting cannot be changed beyond what is offered in the fifteen colors. (The colors appear to be hard-wired into Word.) "

[howard555]

Originally Posted by bigbear99

According to one website, confirmed by my own deep dive into MS word options:

"The colors used for highlighting cannot be changed beyond what is offered in the fifteen colors. (The colors appear to be hard-wired into Word.) "

Not true it seems. Open a document, type xxxxx. Use mouse to highlight it. Go to borders and shading and to the shading tab, change paragraph to text and choose a color from "more."

That makes the xxxxx the color you choose. But as you try to move on to more parts of the document the color you chose for xxxxx will follow you.

[bigbear99]

Tried it. It works, but only if you're careful to select only the text. If you select the paragraph mark too (I always have them showing) it changes the whole line, even if there's nothing else there.

[howard555]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

Why are the color options so limited? I thought Word would produce almost any color text you want.

Here's your many choices. Then there is the custom tab for more shades.

[Tek_Freek]

But if I understand it the highlight choices are the problem. Something I misunderstood before.