Well, I solved the problem. The solution didn't involve LiveCycle designer at all; I changed my desktop appearance theme and now the boundary line in all fields with captions is a nice, bright orange. Weird.
Thanks for the information - I'll keep this for future reference.The text field boundary line thing obviously isn't a big issue- just a minor annoyance.
I am using LiveCycle Designer ES2 on a Windows 7 machine. Is there a way to change the appearance of the text field tool itself? Not the font/size attributes, but specifically the color of the boundary line between caption and value when working in Design View? I can change the outline color in the ...