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<Subme> wrote in message :I had the smae problem in my office 2007 on windows 7.
: the soulotion was quite simple.
:
: get into personalize and sipmly change your theme, then reopen your office
application and it's all fine.
:
: If you have windows XP i think that gettin into display setting and set
new theme might solve that there to.
:
:
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: Kevi wrote:
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: Office 2007 Display Color Missing
: 15-Jun-07
:
: My office 2007 Display is mising the colors in the windows, it looks like
a
: 4-bit color display. I am running dual monitors and when I disable the
second
: monitor the colors come back. Has anyone else seen this? I can send you
a
: screenshot if you want.
:
: Thanks
: Kevin
:
: Previous Posts In This Thread:
:
: On Friday, June 15, 2007 10:26 AM
: Kevi wrote:
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: Office 2007 Display Color Missing
: My office 2007 Display is mising the colors in the windows, it looks like
a
: 4-bit color display. I am running dual monitors and when I disable the
second
: monitor the colors come back. Has anyone else seen this? I can send you
a
: screenshot if you want.
:
: Thanks
: Kevin
:
: On Friday, June 15, 2007 10:35 AM
: JoAnn Paules wrote:
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: My suggestion would be to look for updated video drivers.
: My suggestion would be to look for updated video drivers.
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: JoAnn Paules
: MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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: On Friday, June 15, 2007 11:29 AM
: Kevi wrote:
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: I have the lastest drivers from Intel.
: I have the lastest drivers from Intel.
:
: See this post below, for a screen shot, from other people who have the
same
: issue, some have NVidia cards and ATI cards all with the latest drivers. I
do
: not think it is a video driver issue. I think it is how the colors are
being
: displayed by Office 2007 apps. All other apps work fine, they show in
32-bit,
: only the office 2007 apps show in 4-bit color....
:
:
http://pschmid.net/office2007/forums/viewtopic.php?t=108
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: "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
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: On Friday, June 15, 2007 12:49 PM
: JoAnn Paules wrote:
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: Patrick is a guru with Office 2007 so whatever he suggests - go with that.
: Patrick is a guru with Office 2007 so whatever he suggests - go with that.
: He's the man.
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: JoAnn Paules
: MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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: On Wednesday, September 05, 2007 12:08 PM
: TJCooper197 wrote:
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: I seriously doubt its the video drivers or cards.
: I seriously doubt its the video drivers or cards. I have seen this as
well,
: and it doesnt affect all computers. My little notebook is handling dual
: monitors just fine, and the desktops affected have much stronger video
cards.
:
: "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote:
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: On Wednesday, September 05, 2007 12:10 PM
: TJCooper197 wrote:
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: I forgot to mention; we are using Office 2003 and we are experiencing the
: I forgot to mention; we are using Office 2003 and we are experiencing the
: issue as well.
:
: "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote:
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: On Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:12 PM
: MarcusCote wrote:
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: I had this issue as well and the only solution was to rebuild the system.
: I had this issue as well and the only solution was to rebuild the system.
If
: I disabled all my extra monitors and went down to one the colors came back
: but as soon as I enabled a second monitor the colors dropped to 8 bit. I
: tried uninstalling and reinstalling Office 2007, no joy. I tried removing
: all my graphics programs, no joy. I tried a very basic boot using
MSCONFIG,
: no joy. I tried deleting my NT.DAT file, no joy. I tried uninstalling,
: removing all Office reg keys and files and then rebooting/reinstalling, no
: joy. I eventually just rebuilt the system and now everything is back to
: normal. Oh yeah and I tried the latest drivers (which were supplied by MS
by
: the way via AutoUpdate), no joy.
:
: I seriously doubt after doing all the above that this is a simple driver
: issue. The video cards I have are pretty darn powerful and I have been
: running multi-monitor systems for years without issue until now with
Office
: 2007. Considering I have read other threads that say this issue also
occurs
: with 2003 as well then I have to think the problem lies somewhere else
: besides the video card drivers.
:
: Of course I do remember years ago when the video card drivers did cause
: massive issues with Win98 and Win2K and MS took the brunt of that
criticism
: before it came to light that nVidia and ATI were largely to blame so I
will
: withold judgement but at this point it seems to be an update or an OS
issue
: rather than a hardware/driver issue IMHO.
:
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