Please give us more choices for color schemes

[j.evan.s]

Blue, silver, & black. Please, give us more choices. For that matter, open
it up so anyone can add options.

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[JoAnn Paules]

We are not Microsoft employees. You need to direct your comments to
Microsoft directly.

 

[darkrats]

It's been a long time since Office 2007 has been out, and MS has never once
officially indicated any additional schemes would be forthcoming, although
some "unoffical" reps in these newsgroups have occasionally mentioned that
this might happen. I don't think it ever will happen, at least not until the
NEXT version of Office comes out, and even then, who knows. MS is not famous
for considering the wishes of its user base.

 

[Ralph Sanchez]

I only want one additional color scheme: Use System Colors (for those of us
who do not use high contrast OS color schemes).

 

[darkrats]

This is one of those small, but much asked for, tweaks for Office 2007 that
MS will probably never come thru with. A lot of MVPs have mentioned possible
additional schemes in the future, but I don't think they know any more than
we do. For some reason MS chose 3 rather silly colors for Office 2007 and
left out the old default Office colors. Given that changing colors happens
in a second, there must be a file somewhere that only needs to have a few
values changed to change the colors. I always hoped that someone would track
it down, but no one ever did.

 

[Ralph Sanchez]

From reading between the lines on some MS posts, I think that all of the
three color schemes (Silver, Black, Blue) use bitmaps for their appearance.
It's only when you use a high contrast scheme at the OS level that they
actually let your OS preferences show through.

If someone could figure out where those bitmaps are and how to manipulate
them, I assume it would be fairly easy to make a green scheme or a purple
scheme or anything else. It probably wouldn't be quite as easy to make a
"just use my OS colors," scheme which is what I want. Even still, maybe
I'll have a go at it. I'm going to be on the road a little from time to
time over the next few months and when I have time to kill on planes and
whatnot, I'll figure out what I can.

(I'm normally hacking at AutoCAD, but there's just something about these
gaudy skinned applications that really makes me want to figure it out.)

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Darkrats,

As to the choice of color sets -

The blue relates to the Windows XP default coloring.
The black to Vistas default coloring.
The silver/grey/neutral as the last to be added and allows, among other things, better quality for on line collaboration,
presentations, recordings/videos (http://officelabs.com) and screen shots with its solid color background in the document area so
you don't get as much degradation of the display as the gradient colors can cause.

As Ralph mentioned, it may be more than just a couple of 'tweaks' or I'm guessing folks like those who make the Windows-Blinds
products would have come up with something by now <g> but all we know for sure is that Microsoft, in this version, didn't provide
another tool yet for changing these

While there could be additional color sets before version-next, there hasn't been any information on that from what I've come
across. For Service Pack 2, there will be built in support for some of the Open Office document files according to one of the MS
blogs on Office.

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This is one of those small, but much asked for, tweaks for Office 2007 that
MS will probably never come thru with. A lot of MVPs have mentioned possible
additional schemes in the future, but I don't think they know any more than
we do. For some reason MS chose 3 rather silly colors for Office 2007 and
left out the old default Office colors. Given that changing colors happens
in a second, there must be a file somewhere that only needs to have a few
values changed to change the colors. I always hoped that someone would track
it down, but no one ever did. >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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