In article, Hmmm, Bob already answered your question earlier today, but if you really did miss it, he explained that you set this from Mac OS X System Preferences. Specifically, go into the Appearance window and choose a color from the Highlight Color list. (The bottom entry on the list is 'Other,' where you can choose your own color from all of the usual OS X color options.) I, too, found the default blue a bit hard to see and switched to Purple some time ago.
How To Change Your Mouse Cursor Size and Color on Mac Mac allows easy changing the mouse cursor size and color. Though, you can only change the contrast, grayscale, transparency, and inverting screen color so that the cursor becomes more noticeable rather than changing cursor's color. You can, also, adjust the cursor acceleration so it does not 'zoom' so fast across the screen aiding in more precise cursor placement and movements. There are plenty of options to adjust the OS X cursor's behaviour to get it to be more comfortable, controllable and precise.
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Patty [email protected] 20/3/2017, 18:10 น. Word now uses.
A light blue, which I find hard to see against the white background. Can this color be changed?
Thanks all those who replied, as I was hunting for solutions:) I have checked and both 'MacOS system highlight' and 'Microsoft Word page color' solutions are valid. However changing page color is not desirable as this value is save in the document and applies only to the Page View. The system option requires Word to restart, which makes initial testing of colors tiresome but is a more coherent use of MacOS features.
More importantly, the highlight color needs to be more visible when in Accessibility high-contrast mode - which is great for distraction free or nighttime writing. Word for Mac 2016 has a Focus Mode but it requires an Office 365 Subscription. Without this, a distraction free, 'night mode' can be achieved by setting Word in Fullscreen, hiding its ribbons and using system Accessibility features (Display Invert + Grayscale + Differentiate + Increase contrast + Display contrast up a notch). Finding the right highlight color is tricky as text color does not always invert, and Word for Mac appears to overlay a shade of the system highlight color. So when in high-contrast mode a system highlight color that was good for the system was not clear enough in Word, and when it was clear enough for Word it was too strong for the system. For example, 'Graphite' (#d8d8dc, 85% gray) was too light in night-mode. And with 'Other.'
Set to 50% gray, in normal mode this was too dark for the system but ok in Word, and vice versa in night mode. Therefore I would suggest setting the system highlight color to 66% gray, which gives an equal perceptual weight of highlight in both normal and night mode.
All the best, Mike As mentioned by Patty, to change MacOS system highlight: from Mac OS X System Preferences. Specifically, go into the Appearance window and choose a color from the Highlight Color list. (The bottom entry on the list is 'Other,' where you can choose your own color from all of the usual OS X color options.) As mentioned by Zedsdea, adjust the highlight in Word by changing the page color.
Hi Try this combination of settings. In Mac OS System preferences, in the Accessibility preferences, set the display to grayscale 2. In Word preferences, General preferences, click the check box Blue Background, white text This combination of settings will give you a crisp, black background on which to type. The insertion cursor will blink white.
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