When you create a new project, text appears in black and links are displayed in blue. You can use different colors by editing document styles.
The text options you can change include:
Body text: Normal text in your topics (headings, lists, tables, paragraphs).
Links: Hyperlinks that have not been selected.
Visited links: Hyperlinks that have been selected.
Active links: The hyperlink that is currently selected.
From the Format menu, select Styles.
If the Hide inherited styles check box is selected, remove the check mark to see all styles in the Styles list.
Under Available in, select the name of the topic or style sheet (*.CSS). Select the style sheet name if you want all topics in your project to use the same text and link colors.
Under Styles, select the hyperlink (Hyperlink [active], Hyperlink [unvisited], Hyperlink [visited]) or the text style you want to change.
Click Modify. The Modify Style dialog opens.
Click the Format button, and select Font. The Font dialog opens, allowing you to change font color.
From Font Color, select the color you want to attach to the hyperlink or text style and click OK.
Repeat steps 4 through 7 for each style you want to change.