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OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 3, 32 bit Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2 Please let me know if there is anything I can do to solve this problem. made a new document with just text, that printed fine changed color of font, still no font printed Now noting this today, I went back to previously saved documents that include the same table, and now those documents will only print the table outlines as well, when they have definitely printed fine with the text before. I have been using this identical table in other documents and it has printed fine before. When going to print, the only thing that prints is the outline of the table, with no text inside. This means you'd actually be using the ink cartridge to produce the color on the paper (with a white border, of course, since the printer can't print all the way to the edge of the paper).I have created a word document that includes a table that spans close to 10 pages.
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That is to use white paper, color the background of the document, and print that out. There is one other option to printing white text, but it would use a lot of ink. But it all boils down to the fact that formatting text as white has no effect on a printout, and you can't print in white unless your printer physically supports the use of white ink. Instead, black text would actually print out as white, since you effectively replaced the black ink in the printer with the white ink cartridge. In that case, you still wouldn't format your text in Word using white. The answer, of course, is to get a special printer or ink cartridge that allows you to print using white ink. (In other words, you can't print using ink that you don't have.) None of these colors available in the printer, of course, is white-so it can't be printed. Why? Because most printers (even color printers) use one, two, or four colors. If you try to print text that is formatted as white, it won't print-Word effectively ignores it. This effectively makes the text "disappear" because seeing white text on white paper is about as easy as seeing a white snowflake in a field of snow.
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You can even format text using a color of white. Word allows you to easily specify the color to use for different fonts in your document.
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