interface color

[Dan_Engel]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: imap

I know this has been covered, and the previous post is no longer active.
I just had to get this out there; This mail client seems to work well, but the purple color is simply cruel. I believe it to be a sick joke on the part of a development leader somewhere behind the scenes. If no ability to change the color was to be added, how could no one in the development team have the epiphany of using something neutral -maybe GRAY???
The suggestion on the previous post was to consider calibrating the monitor, "as this can often make a big a difference". Hopefully no one out there was silly enough to attempt this fix for the purple and pink interface.
It's silly oversights like this that drive people to the Apple site in the first place.

 

[Dan_Engel]

After having another look at Word and Excel I can see what you mean by the color assignments. I never really noticed that before. I was referring more to the "my day" portion of the application that has all of the pumped up color.
Thanks for you thoughts though JR.

 

[Ski]

Just installed Office 2008 and the first thing I looked for was a way to change the overall color scheme/theme. Is there any way to change this? I'll take suggestions for a hack, anything...

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

Just installed Office 2008 and the first thing I looked for was a way
to change the overall color scheme/theme. Is there any way to change
this? I'll take suggestions for a hack, anything...

No, interface colors can not be changed nor adjusted.

Please be sure to let Microsoft know you'd like to see this feature in
future versions by using the Help --> Send Feedback mechanism in any
Office application.

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bill

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[Ski]

In answer to your snide reply, yes, I had considered reading up on the subject before posting. To this effect I did a search of this forum and came up with only this thread; and rather than start a new thread I posted my question in an existing on.

So... do you have anything constructive to suggest? A link to a similar thread? A definitive answer one way or the other on this subject? Or is your idea of helpfulness to chide people based on your perception of a visitor's lack of forum search-engine acumen?

 

[Dan_Engel]

I concur Ski. I think JR just really likes the purple and pink scheme and he seems a bit testy about it—and was a bit of an Ahole about the whole thing right from my first post. I heard nothing constructive from anyone else either.
It's always good to post your comments regardless if it's been covered. If 2 million people are having the same problem and no one posts after the first guy...(Microsoft would be happy)
It sounds as though there is nothing you can do about the color though. Between the absolutely horrible colors, the incredible system weight of Entourage to begin with, other weird issues and Microsoft messing up my personal documents folder, I decided that I would have no problem living with mail & ical anyway and joyously bid a final farewell to ever running anymore Microsoft trash on any system ever again.

 

[Ski]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your reply. I've been happy with Mail myself, but there are certain useful things (in theory) about Entourage that I'm going to try out in an attempt to help me be more organized about... "things" LOL!

Totally OT (bad, BAD Ski) is that emptying the trash is attached to scheduling rather than having a dedicated key command for it... I found that to be all-too-odd even back when I was using Outlook Express on OS 9. But on another OT note, I find something ironic (?) in the fact that CMD-K gets mail in Entourage, while CMD-K empties the trash in Mail.

So if anyone knows a way to change some kind of hidden .png files (or such like) that can let me (us) change the color scheme in Entourage, I'm all ears (eyes).