Change Office 2003 installed on Vista default "baby Blue" color

Hi,

For specific reasons I needed to install Office 2003 on my Vista
Ultimate laptop.( I have Office 2007 but needed 2003 to help a client).
Is there a way to change that hideous "baby blue" default color of Office to
something more palatable?
Like silver or black?

Jeff

No help anyone?

Jeff

"Jeff" <S.Cerevisiae@hmm.edu> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> For specific reasons I needed to install Office 2003 on my Vista
> Ultimate laptop.( I have Office 2007 but needed 2003 to help a client).
> Is there a way to change that hideous "baby blue" default color of Office
> to something more palatable?
> Like silver or black?
>
> Jeff
>

Did you try changing Windows display? That's what you would have done on an
XP system but since I don't have Office 2003 on a Vista system, I can't try
it out.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


"Jeff" <S.Cerevisiae@hmm.edu> wrote in message
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> No help anyone?
>
> Jeff
>
> "Jeff" <S.Cerevisiae@hmm.edu> wrote in message
> news:28682047-13C0-49F9-83CF-61299C6F7B8B@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> For specific reasons I needed to install Office 2003 on my Vista
>> Ultimate laptop.( I have Office 2007 but needed 2003 to help a client).
>> Is there a way to change that hideous "baby blue" default color of Office
>> to something more palatable?
>> Like silver or black?
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>

JoAnn,

Thx for your response. Unfortunately neither do I. Was researching it
some more and it looks like it's not easily accomplished, if at all. Oh
well, thank god it's only for 6 weeks, then back to Office 2007 for me.

Jeff

"JoAnn Paules" <jl_paules@hotNOSPAMmail.com> wrote in message
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> Did you try changing Windows display? That's what you would have done on
> an XP system but since I don't have Office 2003 on a Vista system, I can't
> try it out.
>
> --
>
> JoAnn Paules
> MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
> Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
>
>
> "Jeff" <S.Cerevisiae@hmm.edu> wrote in message
> news:8B89C876-3795-4E88-BBD6-6FF241675C61@microsoft.com...
>> No help anyone?
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> "Jeff" <S.Cerevisiae@hmm.edu> wrote in message
>> news:28682047-13C0-49F9-83CF-61299C6F7B8B@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> For specific reasons I needed to install Office 2003 on my Vista
>>> Ultimate laptop.( I have Office 2007 but needed 2003 to help a client).
>>> Is there a way to change that hideous "baby blue" default color of
>>> Office to something more palatable?
>>> Like silver or black?
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>
>
>

[fchiarel]

I found a way to get the grey colors on the NBR forum:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=271065

The solution is to set the compatibility mode of the Office 2003 programs to "Windows 2000". Works for me with Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, Project.

Does not work with Word (odd, but I have a french SP3 version).
Hope this helps.

[nixatron]

Without needing to select compatibility mode itself simply select "Disable visual themes" from Properties > Compatibility.