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I'm wondering if there's any way to invert the colors in Microsoft Office Word - that is, view white text on a black background. I mainly ask because I'm used to dark color schemes a la Notepad++ themes and similar, and so much white space is really hard on the eyes in my environment.

I love Word, but want a sane color scheme - any options? The product version is Office 2007 if that helps.

Some weird kludge or hack would also be acceptable :)

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  • Perhaps change the system-wide accessibility theme? I seem to remember seeing 'reverse high-contrast' options before. – sarnold Feb 21 '11 at 07:08
  • There certainly *used* to be a way to display white text on a blue background, a la WordPerfect. But it appears to be removed in the latest version. Last one I remember seeing it in is Office 2003. EDIT: Yeah, it's been unceremoniously removed from Word 2007. Check [here](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_office_word/archive/2009/03/02/word-throwback-just-write-edition1.aspx) for a possible workaround. – Cody Gray - on strike Feb 21 '11 at 08:21
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    High contrast mode can be used easily. Left-shift + left-Alt + PrtScr to turn it on and off. Also available in "change desktop" and "ease of use" features. – Pete Mar 27 '18 at 18:28
  • In Word 2016 you can view a file in reading mode in which you can invert the colours. – Skillmon Apr 06 '20 at 14:27
  • Check this: https://www.davidbosman.fr/scsaw/?p=687 . You can choose View -> Immersive Reader. Then select Page Color -> Black. – JulienVan Nov 24 '20 at 05:47

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Word is designed to show the document you're working on in as close to WYSIWYG mode as it can manage, which means white background and black (or coloured) text. Haven't found a way to set a different background colour, but any text colour you set will result in that colour being printed which is probably not what you're looking for as a result.

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