Betalogue

Working with text boxes in Word 2011 is an endless source of fun.

Let’s take a text box formatted with one of Word 2011’s own “quick styles,” i.e. with a black background and a light-coloured edge:

As you can see, resizing the text box works reasonably well. You don’t get “live” resizing. Instead, you can a grey outline indicating where the bottom line will be after the resizing.

Now let’s change the colour of the box’s edge to something dark and try again:

Lovely. This means that, if you or the author of the document you are working on used the “wrong” combination of colours, you will effectively be forced to work “in the dark,” as if you were more or less blind.

Combine that with the situation with the I-beam cursor described earlier, and, like I said, you have an endless source of fun.

This entry was posted by Pierre Igot on Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 at 6:25 pm and is filed under Microsoft. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.