Choosing your preferred colours in your browser – Internet Explorer

To choose your own preferred colours:

• Click on the Colors button or press Alt + O. (see fig 1)
  

  
  Fig 1

• Choose to have your Windows colour scheme reflected by selecting the Use Windows color scheme option with the mouse or by pressing Alt+W.

OR

• Select either the Text button with the mouse ,or by pressing Alt+T, or the Background button with the mouse ,or by pressing Alt+B.
• Select the colour of your choice with the mouse or by using the arrow keys.
• Select the OK button twice with the mouse or by pressing Enter twice.
• Now press OK or press Enter to return to the Internet Options page and click OK or press Enter again to return to Internet Explorer.

Some websites have "hard-coded" their text and background colours and as a consequence these websites will not reflect the changes you have just made. If you would like your preferences to be reflected on the other sites you visit plese follow these steps:

• Open the Tools menu with the mouse or by pressing Alt+T.
• Select the Internet Options option with the mouse or by pressing O. (see fig 2)
  

  
  Fig 2

• Select the Accessibility button with the mouse or by pressing Alt+E. (see fig 3)
  

  
  Fig 3

• Click the Ignore colours specified on Web pages check box, or press Alt + C to check it. This will override any webpages colour setting with your own.
• Click OK or press Enter to return to the Internet Explorer options dialog box.
• Click OK or tab to it and press Enter to go back to the web page you were viewing.