Can't see outlines of textboxes in 2003

[Greg Bowers]

I can not set a color for the outline of the text box. Whenever I select a
color it is acting like it has a default of white. I can set borders and
they showup but I can not just have a box around the text boxes. When I
click on Text boxes, lines, circles, rectangles, etc, only the eight dots
(handles) appear on the page. No outlines. What must I configure? I have
made
sure that I have all the current updates and have uninstalled and reinstalled
Office Pro 2003.

Thanks,
Greg

Ps. sorry for posting this again, but got no replies last week. I'm trying
not to totally wipe out the O/S and start over.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Have you looked at your printer settings? Is it setup for color printing?
Is your graphics driver current?
Right-click the text box, format text box, use the line color option in this dialog.
When you say you can "set borders" does this mean you can color the borders? What
happens when you send the border to the back, can you color the text box then?

 

[Greg Bowers]

We are trying to see it on the screen. The video driver is up to date. When
we set the text box to display a border, like the apple border, it shows it
on the screen. But when we tell it to show the border of the text box as a
colored line it will not show the line. When we go to format text box and
select a color, the color box will not show the color it is always white.
When I do it on another computer, it will display the selected color in the
color box. Even with out having it show the outline of the text box, other
computers will have a dotted line around the text box, when the text box is
selected, this computer will not show that dotted line it just shows the
handles of the text box.

 

[Mary Sauer]

The only time I have seen a text box with handles only is when boundaries and guides
are unchecked under view, but I can still color the line.
Look in the Accessibility Options in the Control Panel, Display tab, clear Use High
Contrast.

If this isn't the answer you might consider a "detect and repair."