Comments on: Change The Default Color Scheme In Office 2007

By: Houston

Houston — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:06:44 +0000

We cleared up a lot of trouble reading Office 2007 files by deselecting:
“Always use ClearType” box under the Options – Popular window in an application. ClearType made it fuzzy with poor contrast.

By: marshall

marshall — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:05:57 +0000

Thank you for this tip. The default color was killing my eyes.
Does anyone know if there is a way to change the contrast? They way it is now, with my perfect eyesight even i have trouble distinguishing which tabs are highlighted. Very annoying! There is such a thing as too much style you know.

By: Paolo

Paolo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:04:45 +0000

Tom,
Probably you’re right and it allows for even more customization than before. However, what bothers me is that I am not able to change the appearance to match the color schema selected in the control panel of Windows XP, so that I have a standard appearance of any window on my screens and, even more important, I don’t fatigue my eyes as it happens now with any of the three “candyland” color schemes.

If you could explain me and all the other people in pain how to achieve this with Office 2007, I’d really appreciate it and take your point.

Thanks!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:36:09 +0000

Office 2007 is great.
It offers more customization and tweaking previous versions.
And much better and than the open office crap.
Regardsless of what has been mentioned above I do like MsOffice.
Only thing that could be better is that they should make it more modular in design. In a way that I can remove modules that I do not need and .

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:05:35 +0000

James is wrong. The procedure he describes using the control panel does NOT affect Office 97. I don’t think he understands the problem. Office 2007 is awful. I wish I had never had it installed when I bought my computer. Why can’t I change the colour to what I want – or at least to those Windows has – as set by the personalisation in the Control Panel?

By: Pottery

Pottery — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:30:07 +0000

Good comments and tips here. It’s great to get rid of the hospital blue. Thanks. However, I find it interesting that the author of this page chose the same abominable color for the Meet the Author and Leave a Comment boxes. Hmmmm.

By: Rosemary Sladden

Rosemary Sladden — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:11:09 +0000

I think you have to save as a template Chris. That way you can open the template and it will stay with the page the colour you want.
Thanks ed makes my eyes feel much better.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:07:32 +0000

Is there a way to make the Page Layout, Page Color default to a dark color like black? I can change it for each document but I want it to default to black page color so I don’t burn my eyeballs out with the white background.

By: James

James — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:27:13 +0000

I found a way to change the Office 2007 application colors in Vista.

Go to Control Panel/Personalization/Window Color and Appearance, and at the bottom click on “Open classic appearance properties for more color options”. Choose a color scheme you want to modify, and then click on the “Advanced” button. From there you can customize the workspace colors, and they will update in Office after choosing apply from the “Appearance” tab.

By: Meiam

Meiam — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:12:44 +0000

Thank you Ed!!! That helps my eyes tremendously and still prints normally.

Ed wrote: Go to tab Page Layout then Page Color, choose which color fit you! dark background will automatically change your font color to be white.