Ever since I upgraded Dreamweaver to CC2017, I've been able to happily use even the CSS code I'd given up on because I couldn't memorize the terms! ...That's what I wrote about two weeks ago.

So does that mean everything can be coded happily now? Well, not quite. Version upgrades can bring more benefits, but they can also create situations that are inconvenient for you personally. This time I'd like to introduce something in CC2017 that made me go "Huh?"

There are various small details, but the biggest source of confusion is how comment-outs are displayed in text mode. These are notes coders leave that don't appear on the actual website, but as of CC2017 they're shown in italics.

Italics are hard to read!

So I thought I'd fix it from the preferences...
Not just in Dreamweaver but in Adobe software in general (Illustrator, Photoshop), the layout of the editing screen can usually be changed via [Edit]-[Preferences] in the top menu. Because there are so many detailed settings, it can take a while to find what you want and many of the names are unfamiliar, but if you plan to use the software often, it's well worth taking the time to configure it.
I went through each item checking for the setting that applies the italics, but I couldn't find the relevant option anywhere!! Maybe it's not in preferences but in view settings? I checked all sorts of places in Dreamweaver, but I couldn't solve it, so I turned to Professor Google. I did find a solution, but the method was...

Directly rewrite a file on the drive where it's installed

Quite the brute-force trick. Seriously...? Apparently you go to "Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017\www\extensions\default\DarkTheme\main.less" on your install drive and delete (or comment out) the italic setting in .cm-comment. In other words, you can't even choose whether to use italics from within the software.

Maybe Adobe figured hardly anyone would want to turn this feature off...