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Subject:Re: Website readability--blue text? From:"David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- BROWN-INC -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:52:04 -0700
Melonie Holliman wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, you have to [change the font color through the
> Format > Font option] for every link.
Instead of formatting each link individually, it's much easier to do a
couple of global search and replace passes right before you compile:
First pass--
Find: Double underline
Replace With: Double underline + whatever color you want for jumps
Second pass--
Find: Single underline
Replace With: Single underline + whatever color you want for pop-ups
Make sure that, for each jump, the first character after the underlined
text is either an asterisk (*) or a percent sign (%) formatted as hidden
text:
* Removes the default green, so your applied color shows through.
% Removes both the green *and* the dotted or solid underline.
Remember, the green in the compiled help file has nothing to do with the
green in your source file.
--David
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David M. Brown -- Brown Inc.
dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com http://www.brown-inc.com/
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