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Between last Friday night when I shut down my system (IBM Thinkpad T30) and
Monday morning when I rebooted and started Outlook, "something" changed the
graphical interface of Office (most noticeable in Outlook). It's as though
all the graphics became simple buttons and text, doing away with all the
shading and subtleties of the "old" Office 2003 (SP2) interface. For
example, the button in the navigation pane are just grey or white (current
button isn't orange anymore). All the borders are grey instead of blue.
There's no shading in the summary calendar to show what days I have open, all
the graphics in the folders listing are outlines with a single color instead
of the gradient graphics that were there before. I can provide screen shots
of before (from a co-workers screen) and after if it would help troubleshoot.
Everything seems to work okay, except the interface is dumbed down and
harder to use (not having days shaded in the calendar, for example). I tried
detect and repair, and even re-installed Office 2003 Professional, but to no
avail. My IT department is baffled and has apparently given up.
I'm not even sure it's Office -- perhaps a config problem with the system.
If someone could at least tell me under what circumstances Office switches to
this simplified interface, that would even be helpful...
Any response would be appreciated...
Monday morning when I rebooted and started Outlook, "something" changed the
graphical interface of Office (most noticeable in Outlook). It's as though
all the graphics became simple buttons and text, doing away with all the
shading and subtleties of the "old" Office 2003 (SP2) interface. For
example, the button in the navigation pane are just grey or white (current
button isn't orange anymore). All the borders are grey instead of blue.
There's no shading in the summary calendar to show what days I have open, all
the graphics in the folders listing are outlines with a single color instead
of the gradient graphics that were there before. I can provide screen shots
of before (from a co-workers screen) and after if it would help troubleshoot.
Everything seems to work okay, except the interface is dumbed down and
harder to use (not having days shaded in the calendar, for example). I tried
detect and repair, and even re-installed Office 2003 Professional, but to no
avail. My IT department is baffled and has apparently given up.
I'm not even sure it's Office -- perhaps a config problem with the system.
If someone could at least tell me under what circumstances Office switches to
this simplified interface, that would even be helpful...
Any response would be appreciated...
