Publisher Text Styles Paragraph Decorations Can't Set Fill

[zwilson]

I'm using Publisher 1.10.4.1198. When I try to add decorations to an existing paragraph style or a new paragraph style, I can't change the fill option. I click on it and the color panel does not open. I've made sure that enable decorations is checked.

[Old Bruce]

Does your Text Styles panel look like this and have you chosen the fill decoration? Without choosing that (last on the right) button the fill colour will be unavailable.

[zwilson]

Thank you. I thought fill was checked but it was not. Everything is working as expected now.

[wizox]

I have a problem with Paragraph Decorations. I can turn them off -- no check mark by "Enabled" -- and it stays disabled as long as I'm using Publisher. However, when I restart Publisher, "Enabled" has either a check mark or a dash in the box. It seems to be resetting itself on startup. The result is that about 1/2 of the text frame's width has a light gray background. I can easily turn it off again, but shouldn't it stay off? I have tried editing the Basic style and other styles as well and it keeps enabling itself on the next time I start up. I read the suggestions to made another user, tried them all, and still I have a gray background after the next startup. Help?

[MikeTO]

4 hours ago, wizox said:

I have a problem with Paragraph Decorations. I can turn them off -- no check mark by "Enabled" -- and it stays disabled as long as I'm using Publisher. However, when I restart Publisher, "Enabled" has either a check mark or a dash in the box. It seems to be resetting itself on startup. The result is that about 1/2 of the text frame's width has a light gray background. I can easily turn it off again, but shouldn't it stay off? I have tried editing the Basic style and other styles as well and it keeps enabling itself on the next time I start up. I read the suggestions to made another user, tried them all, and still I have a gray background after the next startup. Help?

Editing the text styles won't change your defaults. To revert your text formatting to factory settings:

1. Choose Edit > Defaults > Factory Reset
2. Choose Edit > Defaults > Save

Cheers

[wizox]

I start Publisher. Make a text frame and fill with placeholder text. It has a gray background.

Reset to Factory Defaults and the gray goes away.

Go to Text>Paragraph Styles>Create Paragraph Style and the Enabled box has acheck mark in it!

If you uncheck the Enabled and go to Text>Paragraph Styles>Save Text Styles as Default the next time I start Publisher the gray fill reappears.

I get around this by creating my own base style, but I think Publisher is resetting Enabled on restart.

I've played with this a lot and I can't get it to not happen. BTW, over a 50 period I've been through Quark, PageMaker and InDesign.

 

[MikeTO]

16 minutes ago, wizox said:

I start Publisher. Make a text frame and fill with placeholder text. It has a gray background.

Reset to Factory Defaults and the gray goes away.

Go to Text>Paragraph Styles>Create Paragraph Style and the Enabled box has acheck mark in it!

If you uncheck the Enabled and go to Text>Paragraph Styles>Save Text Styles as Default the next time I start Publisher the gray fill reappears.

I get around this by creating my own base style, but I think Publisher is resetting Enabled on restart.

I've played with this a lot and I can't get it to not happen. BTW, over a 50 period I've been through Quark, PageMaker and InDesign.

Choosing Factory Reset on its own will just change that one frame. You need to follow that up with saving the defaults.

You can find a detailed description of how to set up your defaults in my Publisher manual. You can download it free from this forum using the link in my signature below. Look for the "Basic Text" > "Setting default text formatting" page.

Cheers