Comments on: Office 2007: How To Change the Color Scheme

By: Jukka

Jukka — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:36:43 +0000

The scheme of the “active” window should have more contrast to other windows. In my eyes “black” is the easiest to use, even though it's not nice…

By: Casper

Casper — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:40:41 +0000

Thanks..:)

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:35:26 +0000

Thank you! The light blue was somehow disturbing.

By: TonyS

TonyS — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:46:30 +0000

I'm with Christina Hampton. Also, In addition to the inability to change the contrast between an active and inactive window, the Vista style borders with the sheen, reflective look, obscures the borders of the office windows entirely. I constantly click what I think is the border of the office window I want, only to bring forward the window behind it.

By: ecc

ecc — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:24:40 +0000

Bomarc,
did you ever get an answer to your question? I'd also like to have Office 2007 use the standard Windows XP colors like every other program does. In addition to not being able to (easily) tell the difference in active and inactive windows, their titles and borders look very similar to the background (i.e., when a spreadsheet is not maximized in Excel).

By: Hasan Awae

Hasan Awae — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:08:02 +0000

Is there any other color more then (blue, silver, or black)?

By: breakchick

breakchick — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:11:49 +0000

this si rubbish….

this is not tweaking, this is part of the software….

What a useless blog….

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:30:46 +0000

Got as far as clicking on the “Editor” Options button, Popular is a choice in the left hand pane but is grayed out. The only button available is “Customize.” I hate Microsoft, what was wrong with the old Outlook scheme?

By: midiman

midiman — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:29:17 +0000

You mean Outlook is not useful. The post is very useful.
If anyone knows a way to customize/add to the increbibly diverse choice of three colors, that would be great.

By: Bomarc

Bomarc — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:07:09 +0000

This is not useful. Office is using non-standard colors, and one can NOT tell the difference between active and non active windows. How do I get the colors to match the “Windows” standard that I've selected? (65 million colors, and you can choose THREE)