Modify the Appearance of Rules In Word

High-contrast mode is a Windows feature that chooses colors and fonts to maximize the clarity of text and images. When using one of the "dark" high-contrast themes, Policy Modeling rule documents in Microsoft Word become very hard to read.

You can modify the Word template file (*.dotm), however, so that the background colors used for rules are more readable when used with a Windows high-contrast theme. When you open a rule document, Word will use your chosen colors, but when another user opens the same document, they will see the default Policy Modeling colors.

To make this change:

1. Enable "Automatically update document styles" in Word. This is a per-document setting in Word. To change or check the setting for a rule document:
   • In Word, select File, then Options.
   • In the Word Options dialog, select Add-Ins.
   • In the Manage drop-down, select Templates and then click Go.
   • On the Templates tab, select the option Automatically update document styles.
2. Locate the Word template used by Intelligent Advisor. The Microsoft Word template used by Intelligent Advisor is located in one of two places:
   
   • C:\Program Files\Oracle\Policy Modeling\<version>\Templates, or
     
   • C:\Program Files (x86)\Oracle\Policy Modeling\<version>\Templates
     

   The template is:

   • Policy Modeling <version> Word Template.dotm
3. Change the background colors in the Word template. To do this:
   
   1. Right-click the Word template and select Open.
   2. On the Home tab, click the arrow button in the bottom right hand corner of the Styles group. This will open the Styles window.
   3. Select the OPM - level 1 style, click the down-arrow next to the style and select Modify.
   4. In the Modify Style window, select Format, then Border.
   5. In the Borders and Shading dialog, select the Shading tab. The Fill color can be changed as follows:
      • Select No color to make the background color black in a dark high-contrast theme, or white otherwise.
      • Select More colors, then in the Colors dialog, select the Custom tab to select a darker version of the same background color (something suitable for the light text color used by most high-contrast themes).
   6. Repeat the above process for the following additional styles:
      • OPM – level 2
      • OPM – level 3
      • OPM – level 4
      • OPM – level 5
      • OPM – level 6