Actually I have a very real need for this as I am trying to write up my
family tree for my children and want to use standard family tree colours to
differentiate the diffrent lines of my and my wife's family.
To explain: the standard family line colours go blue for your father's line,
green for mother's line, red for your mother's father's line and yellow for
your mother's mother's line this colour map makes it visually easy to see,
once you've got the hand of it, where you are in your family tree - assuming
you are using genealogy software which supports Ancestor colours.
I am writing a narrative of my direct line family tree which has now reached
chapter 40 and want to be able to show which part of my family I am writing
about by displaying the file names in the relevant colour i.e. blue, green,
red and yellow.
I admit this is a fairly specific requirement and is probably not universal
but having Googled to try and find a solution it seems there are a lot of
further reasons from highlighting particular photos to differentiating
document versions.
I'm not particularly interested in getting involved in a slanging match but
just wanted to point out that there are, or perhaps in my case is, perfectly
reasonable reasons for an ability to change the colour of a file name.
To my mind Chapter 39 The Hurts, Lowes, Fownes, Gells, Rosells,
Shuttleworths, Arkwrights and Radcliffes - red, does not work as well as
Chapter 39 etc in a red font of my choice.
I don't know if Microsoft read these forums but for me this an important
issue - I'm sigened on using my daughters hotmail account so any help or
comment should be directed to david.robarts@btinternet.com because she never
checks email!