Word Starter 2010 prints in grey, not black

This is of little importance compared to my internet connection but I
keep forgetting to ask and I just remembered:


I needed to print a simple text letter and used Notepad++ and it printed
a header with the file name and the date.

I didnt' want all that, so copied the file to Word Starter 2010, which
came with Windows, Win10 I believe. I would like to use Word a lot
more because even the starter version has loads of features. But when
I printed it, it was grey instead of black and hard to read. If not
grey, some lighter color than full black. I never changed any defaults.

Is there some setting to get it to black?


I googled and got only one hit, but it was right on the money. It had
one long erudite answer that depended on getting an error message that I
never get.

And the second short answer was that the normal template was corrupted,
to rename it, and Word would make a new one.

When I used Everything to find the file Ifound that it, normal.dotm ,
had already been renamed and a new one created in November of 2016. I
bought this used but I'm not sure if was summer of 2016 or 2017. Darn, I
made notes about everything, except the date I bought it. But if I owned
it in November of 2016, I certainly didn't rename the file to .old .

I renamed it again, restarted word, and brought up a file, but I'm
thinking it won't recreate the format until I try to print something.
I'll look for something to print.

In article , NONONOmisc07
@bigfoot.com says...
I needed to print a simple text letter and used Notepad++ and it printed
a header with the file name and the date.


I'm not sure how to solve your problem, but you can tell Notepad
not to print headers/footers. It's an option.

You don't have a laser printer in "toner save" mode do you?

In Word, you should be able to highlight the text, right-click,
and set the color. Does it show as black or something else?

On 06/08/2019 04:15, mucky wrote:
I didnt' want all that, so copied the file to Word Starter 2010, which
came with Windows, Win10 I believe.

It's now online on Microsoft portal available to all free of charge.


I would like to use Word a lot

Good. Use the online version so that you can get help here with pictures.

more because even the starter version has loads of features. But when
I printed it, it was grey instead of black and hard to read. If not
grey, some lighter color than full black. I never changed any defaults.

All word configurations have a way to change the font size, colour and
weight. See this pictu

[ alt-no ] https://i.imgur.com/h91eZt7.png

Is there some setting to get it to black?

Yes. See the picture above.



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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 6 Aug 2019 11:45:21 -0400, Jason
wrote:

In article , NONONOmisc07
says...
I needed to print a simple text letter and used Notepad++ and it printed
a header with the file name and the date.


I'm not sure how to solve your problem, but you can tell Notepad
not to print headers/footers. It's an option.

I'll look again for that, but I did want to use Word for other things
and I've had this grey problem before.

You don't have a laser printer in "toner save" mode do you?

Nope.

In Word, you should be able to highlight the text, right-click,
and set the color. Does it show as black or something else?

I'll check. Busy now, it will take me a few days.

Thanks.

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 06 Aug 2019 23:05:58 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 6 Aug 2019 11:45:21 -0400, Jason
wrote:

In article , NONONOmisc07
says...
I needed to print a simple text letter and used Notepad++ and it printed
a header with the file name and the date.


I'm not sure how to solve your problem, but you can tell Notepad
not to print headers/footers. It's an option.

I'll look again for that, but I did want to use Word for other things
and I've had this grey problem before.

You don't have a laser printer in "toner save" mode do you?

Nope.

In Word, you should be able to highlight the text, right-click,
and set the color. Does it show as black or something else?

As I said, I'm using Word Starter 2010 that came with win10 Pro. If
there were automatic updates since then, I installed them.

I'll check. Busy now, it will take me a few days.

Okay, there is a section of the ribbon labeled Font underneath, and from
left to right is

B I U abc x x2 A abc A ^

and underlining the last A is a short red line.

The arrow on the right end points down (not up like I show it here) and
when I click on that, the box's top line has a black square (definitely
not grey) and says Automatic.

But when I click on that black square, the line underneath the A changes
to black. When I do it again and click on red or green, the line under
the A changes to red or green, even though the little box stays black.

So it was red when I last printed, but even though I had all 3 colors of
ink, it didn't come out red. It came out grey!!!! ??

And why was the line red when the top line of that box showed a black
square? And I never set anything to red, certainly not this file and
never before that either.

I looked in help and can't find anything, except for one very confusing
thing: When I search Help under automatic, I get a list of 5 choices
including the bottom one which is Set the Default Font.

The picture of the font area of the ribbon shows the A with a RED
underline, as if that is the default. How could red possibly be the MS
default and why didn't it print in red if the underline was red????

Thanks again.

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 6 Aug 2019 18:36:30 +0100, ? Good Guy
? wrote:


On 06/08/2019 04:15, mucky wrote:
I didnt' want all that, so copied the file to Word Starter 2010, which
came with Windows, Win10 I believe.

It's now online on Microsoft portal available to all free of charge.


I would like to use Word a lot

Good. Use the online version so that you can get help here with pictures.

more because even the starter version has loads of features. But when
I printed it, it was grey instead of black and hard to read. If not
grey, some lighter color than full black. I never changed any defaults.

All word configurations have a way to change the font size, colour and
weight. See this pictu

[ alt-no ] https://i.imgur.com/h91eZt7.png

Thanks. But here the color is part of the font, Ariel Black. Most
fonts don't specify a color and here it means that it's bold. I don't
normally want bold print.

To the right halfway across the page it does show the capital A with a
red line underneath it. Yet the text is displayed in black. What does
the red line mean then?

Is there some setting to get it to black?

Yes. See the picture above.

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On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:03:03 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 6 Aug 2019 18:36:30 +0100, ? Good Guy
? wrote:


On 06/08/2019 04:15, mucky wrote:
I didnt' want all that, so copied the file to Word Starter 2010, which
came with Windows, Win10 I believe.

It's now online on Microsoft portal available to all free of charge.


I would like to use Word a lot

Good. Use the online version so that you can get help here with pictures.

more because even the starter version has loads of features. But when
I printed it, it was grey instead of black and hard to read. If not
grey, some lighter color than full black. I never changed any defaults.

All word configurations have a way to change the font size, colour and
weight. See this pictu

[ alt-no ] https://i.imgur.com/h91eZt7.png

Thanks. But here the color is part of the font, Ariel Black. Most
fonts don't specify a color and here it means that it's bold.

I think "Arial Black" is an unfortunate choice of name. I think the
'Black' is meant to emphasize that the font is a very thick font. You
don't have to print only in black. I will try to post a print sample
using Aria Black, which shows 8 shades of black ranging in density
from 10% - 80%. I would normally call these colors 'grey' although at
80% it looks very close to black. On the same print sample you will
see a variety of other colors (seven in this sample) but all in the
same font.

Print Sample: https://imgur.com/fk45krM

I don't normally want bold print.

To change fonts, just go to the font selector box (highlighted in the
'imgur' h91eZt7.PNG image) and click on the pointer which is in the
same box as the font name and you should get a selection of fonts to
choose from. Similar for choosing the font size.

To the right halfway across the page it does show the capital A with a
red line underneath it. Yet the text is displayed in black. What does
the red line mean then?

It means that if you click on that capital 'A' you will get red text.

If you want to avoid that color change, I would suggest that you click
on the "down" arrow to the right of 'A' and then select the 'black'
color.



Is there some setting to get it to black?

Yes. See the picture above.

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