Go to the Appearance preference pane in your System Preferences and change the highlight color. David Crandon On Jan 25, 2006, at 10:16 PM, Duane Murphy wrote: > --- At Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:23:42 -0800, Joan Mihay wrote: > >> Whenever I copy anything from a Safari website by using Command, >> Shift, >> 4, Control and paste it to a TextEdit file, it is colored yellow and >> can not be discerned from the white background. >> >> I would like to have the information in black or even the color it is >> on the web. >> >> How can I accomplish this? > > Umm, command-shift-4 is for taking pictures. I don't know how you're > getting anything on the clipboard. > > If you simply select the text you want and then press command-c (Copy > from the Edit Menu) and then command-v (Paste from the Edit menu) into > Text Edit it should work just fine, at least for text. > > Pictures are another matter. Text Edit doesn't do pictures. > > Good luck, > > ...Duane > > _______________________________________________ > HomeMac mailing list > HomeMac at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/homemac > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984