Text Caption Dialog window is black-help!

For some reason, the text caption dialog box window is black.
It did not used to be black, but somehow decided it wanted to be
black now. This makes is incredibly difficult to view the black
text as I attempt to edit it.
Anyone else have this problem? This is in the text caption
dialog box, in the area where you can type text. My area is black
and I cannot figure out how to change that. The text caption is
transparent and appears in captivate just fine, it's just a pain to
try to edit.
Thanks in advance,
Emily

Hi Emily and welcome to the forum
I'm not sure I've ever sorted exactly what "sets" the
background color presented in the Caption editor for a transparent
caption. One thought that comes to mind is to either:
1. Choose a different text caption style, edit the text as
desired, then switch to the transparent style
or
2. Edit the text inside something like Windows Notepad, then
paste into the Caption editor
Hopefully one of these suggestions will work for you.
Sincerely... Rick

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