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Thanks to all those who responded to my question on how to change the color of
the paragraph markers in MS Word 5.0, especially David Carson of Microsoft
and larryh@microsoft.com. The solution involves using Resedit, the Color
control panel and a decimal-hex calculator. Below are the details for those
interested, taken from Mr. Carson's personal reply.

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Word: Changing the Color of Word's Paragraph Marks            [M_WorD]

Summary:

In Microsoft Word for the Macintosh version 5.0, you can change
paragraph marks, tabs, and spaces to any of the colors available in
the Macintosh system. This can make it much easier to see spaces and
tabs for the visually impaired.

This process requires a calculator that can convert decimal values to
Hexadecimal and ResEdit, or a comparable resource utility to change
one of Word's resources.

First, the desired color must be determined:

1. Choose Control Panel(s) from the Apple Menu.

2. Click on Color. (Double-click in System 7.x.)

3. Under Highlight Color choose Other. This will bring up the system
   color wheel.

4. Choose a color from the color wheel. Write down the values for
   Red, Green and Blue. With the calculator, convert these values
   individually to their hexadecimal equivalent. Write down the
   Hexadecimal values. (Note: the standard Calculator Desk Accessory
   does not convert decimal to hexadecimal.)

5. Close the Control Panel (Control Panels in System 7).

Secondly, the values must be changed in Word's COLR resource:

1. Make a duplicate of Microsoft Word 5.0.

2. Launch ResEdit and open the copy of Microsoft Word.

3. Double-click on the COLR resource.

4. Double-click on 128.

5. Highlight the 3 sets of four digit numbers and replace these with
   the calculated hexadecimal values. The values are currently set to
   gray (8000  8000  8000). Note: there are no spaces necessary when
   inputting the hexadecimal values.

6. Quit ResEdit and save changes to Microsoft Word 5.0.

7. Open Word 5.0 and the paragraph marks, spaces will appear in the
   Untitled1 document.

More Information:

This cannot be done with versions prior to 5.0 since the paragraph
marks were made into a resource in Word 5.0.

Sample Values:

Red:      FFFF  0000  0000       (4 Fs and 8 zeros)
Green     0000  FFFF  0000       (4 zeros, 4 Fs, and 4 zeros)
Blue      0000  0000  FFFF       (8 zeros and 4 Fs)


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David B. Lutz
The University of Toledo
DLUTZ@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU