You must be a new Mac convert.*Sniff*, Quite the opposite.
I think you
do know I was pulling your chain...
Not to point one finger while having several others point at me... but, just yesterday, I noticed a couple of slides my wife was going to use today had dark blue text on a black background. I suggested that there was so little contrast with those two colors that not many in the audience would be able to read the text. I, of course, agreed to tackle this complex technical challenge for her.
That's when I saw that the slides were in Powerpoint, the coulda been Keynote app from the company famous for making the simplest things complicated.
"You use a browser to find files on your computer?"
"No, 'Explorer' was how we find files before we even had the inteweb, the names are just a coincident we didn't see a need to clarify.
The user will figure it out... eventually. Besides, it adds a sense of discovery to boring tasks like finding where something is... eventually.
We use the same logic to limit name suffixes to 3 letters, that's more than we'll ever need."
Still, how hard can it be to change a font's color?!
Unsurprisingly, the first thing I noticed was that
the 'text-entry' cursor looked 'funny'. In fact, it was two 'text-entry' cursors slightly offset vertically and horizontally. Strange, but it seemed to be able to select the barely legible text, although
not totally. While the left-hand edge of the high lighted area covered the first character, the right-hand edge only covered about half of the last character. Trying again, made no difference. Selecting from right to left didn't change the display, either.
Even with these two different UI problems, I continued to think that the task would be simple. I think this is the definition of what is called "tunnel vision"? Anyway, with the vast majority of the text selected, I felt sure the little button with a
colored "A" on it would be all it would take to change the
color, so I clicked the button and selected a nice, light shade of blue-gray.
"Thanks!", she said? Not on your life! Apparently, 1 plus 1 don't always equal 2 in Redmond. The text changed in absolutely no way; it was still in the glorious dark-navy-blue-nearly-impossible-to-read color!
Several more attempts, even trying different buttons and twisting my tongue till it hurt, resulted in nothing more than sharply increasing my blood pressure.
Fortunately, we were on a Mac and Keynote easily opens most PPT files. In less time than it takes Powerpoint to open, I had control-clicked the Powerpoint file telling the OS to open it in Keynote. I then selected the offending text, from the left to right-hand ends, with a single text-entry cursor. I then clicked the color I wanted in the multi-mode color picker and saved the file as a ".ppt". Reopened Powerpoint which happily, if somewhat confusedly, displayed the slides with much more legible colors. I'm sure you've guessed that the MS software had to be used because the computer to be used does not run the macOS without sacrifices/contributions to Mr. Gates' Foundation.
The Mac and the OS (or even Apple) are not nearly perfect, no question. But I still don't understand the MS "philosophy" of doing different things than what the user expects. Do they really think users like 'surprises' when working on their computers?! Oh well, I'm just glad I don't have to remember 'tricks' when using Windows. I understand they still have those delightfully memorable "function" keys on their keyboards where the same key does something different depending on what app happens to be in use... I guess people like to play guessing games while switching between Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Exploder, etc., not me, thank you very much!