Documents in word have changed colour

[janetsflower]

For some reason and i am not aware of doing anything to make it happen, half the documents i have saved in My Documents and the various other folders in Office have had the titles turn blue - ie when i go to open files and the list of docs come up half of them are named in blue text and half still in black - anybody know what this means?

[Pineapple66]

I think it indicates compression. The blue files have been compressed to save space on you drive. Not sure about this, anyone know for sure.

[squarebear]

Blue means that the file is compressed. If they are large, WIndows XP will compress them automatically to save on disk space.

[janetsflower]

Oh I see, I guess thats nothing to worry about then, thank you for your very prompt responses. Wish i was that clever

[squarebear]

No it's nothing to worry about. It's normal procedure for XP.

[squarebear]

You can also get green file names. These are ones that have been encrypted. Again, just normal procedure and nothing to be alarmed about.