Office 2007 Color Scheme

[mikeao]

How do you make Office 2007 products use the XP color schemes - like every
other application that is running on the PC. Office continues to show light
blue no matter what change is made.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

You can't. I too have issues with the pale blue. I found a little helpin
changing the brightness and color temps of my monitor. It's still light but
not nearly as bad as it had been. I felt like I looked into a flashbulb!

 

[mikeao]

I was hoping that wasn't the answer. Perhaps once the MS development team
start using Office 2007 they'll come up with a patch. Thanks.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

In the big scheme of things (no pun intended), a pale blue highlight isn't
going to rank very high as long as there are issues that affect the
functionality of a program. We both have to (begrudgingly) admit that having
a program work is more important than changing a highlight color. But that
doesn't mean that it might not be changed later. ;-)

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

The MS Development team has been using Office since prior to 2005 - I think they would have answered any questions about color schemes long before now if they were going to.

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After furious head scratching, mikeao asked:

| I was hoping that wasn't the answer. Perhaps once the MS development
| team start using Office 2007 they'll come up with a patch. Thanks.
|
| "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
|
|| You can't. I too have issues with the pale blue. I found a little
|| helpin changing the brightness and color temps of my monitor. It's
|| still light but not nearly as bad as it had been. I felt like I
|| looked into a flashbulb!
||
|| --
||
|| JoAnn Paules
|| Microsoft MVP - Publisher
||
||
||
|| ||| How do you make Office 2007 products use the XP color schemes -
||| like every other application that is running on the PC. Office
||| continues to show light
||| blue no matter what change is made.

 

[Echo S]

Do you have issues with the light blue highlight (mentioned elsethread)
specifically, or is it the overall Office color schemes? If you click the
Office File button and choose <application name> Options, you can change the
Color Scheme to Blue, Silver, or Black.

I like black best because it seems to have a bit more contrast, although I
think I may have gotten used to and liked silver if they'd had it available
during beta. Anyway, they all use the light blue text highlight, although
it's darker and better than it was during beta. I sometimes couldn't see it
at all there and struggled to tell what I had selected. That's not much of a
problem any longer.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

It used to be even lighter? Holy cow - I didn't think that was possible.
Seriously, it's darned difficult to see at best.

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JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

Do you have issues with the light blue highlight (mentioned elsethread)
specifically, or is it the overall Office color schemes? If you click the
Office File button and choose <application name> Options, you can change
the Color Scheme to Blue, Silver, or Black.

I like black best because it seems to have a bit more contrast, although I
think I may have gotten used to and liked silver if they'd had it
available during beta. Anyway, they all use the light blue text highlight,
although it's darker and better than it was during beta. I sometimes
couldn't see it at all there and struggled to tell what I had selected.
That's not much of a problem any longer.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

How do you make Office 2007 products use the XP color schemes - like
every
other application that is running on the PC. Office continues to show
light
blue no matter what change is made.

 

[kirk jim]

All vista era products are full of errors that even a kid 10 years old
sitting in front
of a computer for 10 minutes could observe and state them with ease....

The only explaination is that vista era products were developed by baboons.

It used to be even lighter? Holy cow - I didn't think that was possible.
Seriously, it's darned difficult to see at best.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

Do you have issues with the light blue highlight (mentioned elsethread)
specifically, or is it the overall Office color schemes? If you click the
Office File button and choose <application name> Options, you can change
the Color Scheme to Blue, Silver, or Black.

I like black best because it seems to have a bit more contrast, although
I think I may have gotten used to and liked silver if they'd had it
available during beta. Anyway, they all use the light blue text
highlight, although it's darker and better than it was during beta. I
sometimes couldn't see it at all there and struggled to tell what I had
selected. That's not much of a problem any longer.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

How do you make Office 2007 products use the XP color schemes - like
every
other application that is running on the PC. Office continues to show
light
blue no matter what change is made.

 

[epack]

Do you have issues with the light blue highlight (mentioned elsethread)
specifically, or is it the overall Office color schemes? If you click
the Office File button and choose <application name> Options, you can
change the Color Scheme to Blue, Silver, or Black.

I had already discovered how to change the blue to one of the other two
schemes (black does it for me but is there any way to add additional
color choices? i.e., are there add-ins etc out there that can enhance
the choices?

It would also be nice if we could change each prog (Word/Excel, for ex)
separately, but I can live with all of them being the same as long as
they are not blue

TIA

elaine
charlottesville, va

 

[Beth Melton]

There isn't a way to add additional colors to the Office themes so it sounds
like you'll be using black. ;-)

~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP