Change The Default Color Scheme In Office 2007
The Microsoft Office 2007 color scheme certainly fits in Windows Vista, but fortunately for those of us unhappy with so much light blue, the color scheme can be changed.
This tip works the same whether you are using Access, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint - if you change the color in one, it changes the color in all Microsoft Office applications. Since the steps are the same we will use Word as the example.
Click on the Microsoft Office Button then click on Word Options.
Click on Popular and and then use the "Color Scheme" drop down arrow to choose between Blue, Silver or Black then click OK.
For this I chose Black, you can choose whichever color you prefer (silver looks pretty good). Now if you open Access, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint the color will be changed also. But what about Outlook? Keep reading!
Oddly enough, you have to open a new email in Outlook 2007 in order to see the Microsoft Office button. Once you are there, then you can click on "Editor Options", and then follow the same steps as above.
Outlook is changed at the same time as the other office 2007 products. change any product disply option and it changes all office 2–7 products ( at least in 2007 Ultimate).
can it be changed to colours other than balck, blue or silver?
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Not that I am aware of without 3rd party software.
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…I the past few weeks, since I switched to Office2007, every time I opened any of the Office applications I would gag & wanted to throw when looking @ the default hospital-blue…
Now I only see “BLACK” and feel as if I was born-again!!!!
Thanks How2Geek Team!!!
P.S. I have Office Ultimate 2007… when I changed the color under Word, it also changed it on Outlook..
So much for wanting to be colorfully creative!! This could be a Russian product before perestroika and glasnost!! Bland blue or silver and dreary black….. and you cannot vary between products… how very un-Microsoft.
On earlier versions of Word, I used a dark blue background. It helped tremendously (I have sight problems). Can something like this no longer be done now???
Thnx.
dlm
What third party applications can change it to other colors?