How to the change the colour of text in multiple text-boxes?

Question

Using Microsoft Publisher 2010 I am working on a publication that has a very large number (thousands) of text boxes in it.  I wish to change the colour of all the text within the text boxes but am at a loss at how to do this conveniently.  

I do not wish to have to select the text within each text box individually as it will literally take me hours to do this, and I may need to do this more than once as I am not sure what colour I want yet.  If I drag-select the text boxes the text formatting controls all deactivate in the ribbon.

Please can you help me out.

Warmest regards,

Matthew Applegate

Answer 1

Oh yes, sorry, the paragraph settings, font settings and others are part of what I called paragraph style. Looking at VBA it seems that 1) there is no support for inline styles (like Word has), so all styles are paragraph styles 2) the preferred name for the feature is "text style".

Jan

Answer 2

With that many text boxes it is likely you should be using Word for such a document, but with that said perhaps you can change the Color scheme. Under the Page designs tab > Schemes and change the color scheme. Click the lowest arrow to get the option to create a new scheme and then change the 'main' to your prefered color.

DavidF

Answer 3

With that many text boxes it is likely you should be using Word for such a document, but with that said perhaps you can change the Color scheme. Under the Page designs tab > Schemes and change the color scheme. Click the lowest arrow to get the option to create a new scheme and then change the 'main' to your prefered color.

DavidF

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Oh that was sneaky...I like it.

Answer 4

Or I guess you can just change the paragraph style, depends on whether you want to change the colour scheme or not.

The only problem is that in Publisher 2010, they demoted the use of styles (kind of absurd thing, even Excel does better job here), so you find it on ribbon under Styles group and have to have a cursor in the textbox. Then you can right click the style and select Modify. All text using the same style (i.e. all if you do not use styles in your document) will be changed accordingly.

Answer 5

Or I guess you can just change the paragraph style, depends on whether you want to change the colour scheme or not.

The only problem is that in Publisher 2010, they demoted the use of styles (kind of absurd thing, even Excel does better job here), so you find it on ribbon under Styles group and have to have a cursor in the textbox. Then you can right click the style and select Modify. All text using the same style (i.e. all if you do not use styles in your document) will be changed accordingly.

I am trying to follow your directions and can't figure it out.

I put the cursor in a text box then under the Home tab I see a Styles group on the ribbon and if I click the chevron I see the 'styles in use' and in the case of my text box I see 'comic sans' highlighted which is the font I am using in the text box plus 'normal' in the list of styles I am apparently using on the page. If I right click 'comic sans' I can get the 'modify style' dialog. Under 'click to change' I can click 'paragraph' but in the 'paragraph' dialog I don't see any option to change the color of the font...just an indents and spacing tab, a tabs tab, and a line and paragraph breaks tab. Did you mean to modify the font instead of the paragraph?

Could you explain your approach in more detail please. My approach seemed a bit of a sledge hammer approach and I was hoping someone would offer a more elegant one. 

I really hate the ribbon menu...argh!

DavidF