Weird black screen when responding to message

[Christine Hilmi]

Hi All,

The title says it all really. I've recently started to get a black screen with coloured type when I reply to messages. Invariably the screen goes back to white with whatever colour type is applicable to a string of messages but sometimes I have to hit send with it showing coloured text on black. When the message arrives at the other end the colour is correct. More oddly, this doesn't happen on all messages but is beginning to become more frequent. I've run a couple of spyware progs and Norton anti virus etc. so don't think its anything nasty behind it.

So over to you guys, any ideas?

Chris

 

[Diane Poremsky {MVP}]

version of outlook and windows? do you use the standard theme for your
version of windows? Are all messages affected or only certain formats, like
html or RTF?

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[Christine Hilmi]

Hi,

Thanks for answering my post. I'm using Windows XP professional and Outlook 2000. Outlook uses Word as my text editor and as far as I know I'm not using any settings that aren't installed as default. I did try playing about with it the other day and changed the message setting to HTML but it didn't make any difference. I'm not using any of the backgrounds or templates at all. Any clues?

Chris :?