How to change background color in mail messages?
Capacity to change background colours seems to have been removed. Has anyone found where to do this please???
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Capacity to change background colours seems to have been removed. Has anyone found where to do this please???
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
It's still available in Lion's version of Mail.
Open a New Message window in Mail. Then select Show Fonts from the Format menu.
In the Fonts screen, click the button for Document Color; a clor selection window will open. In that, choose the color you want for background.
Note - if you do this before entering any text in the New Message, you can save it as a Stationery item, which means you can select it from the Stationery menu in the future, saving many steps.
It's still available in Lion's version of Mail.
Open a New Message window in Mail. Then select Show Fonts from the Format menu.
In the Fonts screen, click the button for Document Color; a clor selection window will open. In that, choose the color you want for background.
Note - if you do this before entering any text in the New Message, you can save it as a Stationery item, which means you can select it from the Stationery menu in the future, saving many steps.
Not for me, it doesn't. I choose a document color (black) and nothing changes. Changing text color does work. Running Lion 10.7.5, Mail 5.3.
Hi Don ::
Thanks for pointing out this UI feature. Was able to do exactly what I needed.
Marc
grtgrfx wrote:
Not for me, it doesn't. I choose a document color (black) and nothing changes. Changing text color does work. Running Lion 10.7.5, Mail 5.3.
Same here. OS X 10.9.2, Mail 7.2.
In 7.3, I just selected all of the open message, opened type window and colour windows, then clicked on background colour doo-hickey in type window.
Started selecting various colours in colour window until I found the one I wanted. Seems to have worked. Or at least it's a workaround, for now.
It is located in the Format/Fonts menu when you are composing an email. Or, remember the Command-T shortcut to get there fast.
You have to know where to look. It is located in the Format/Fonts menu when you are composing an email. Or, remember the Command-T shortcut to get there fast.
How to change background color in mail messages?