ColourInDocuments

Interesting article on using colour in documents : http://www.propylon.com/news/ctoarticles/040622_color.html

Why not documents, but a lot in SpreadSheets?

Maybe because spreadsheets are two dimensional? And two dimensional documents rely a lot more on spacial positioning and bounded regions. (Compare SpaceVsInformationFlows/WebVsPrint)

My editor colors my code. –ZbigniewLukasiak

: very good point. And that's not 2D. Bang goes another beautiful hypothesis – PhilJones

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Do not ... unlike a certain company I know ... use colour for meaning in your Word documents, and then print them out in black-and-white.

See also :

• DesignStuff

• ColorForth

• OnText

• OnVisualization

• (WarpLink) TypedLinks, because he suggests colour coding parts of large instruction manuals.