Hi Eugene, thanks for your reply.

Actually, it is of course true what you write about paragraph styles, but I am working with many different paragraphs and the text boxes in question hold complete paragraphs, so to this point it should work in theory.

Another day of using search engines has brought me to the point where I have some more threads by authors having the same issue, and the result was that all answers I have found to this point are: there is no official way to achieve this; and there is one (not ideal) work-around: apply “drop inner shadow” effect to the text box to drop a (super-large, in order to avoid grey zone) black inner into the text which will work as black text fill.

If anybody comes up with a more elegant solution, I will be more than happy!

Thanks so far!
trinc