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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / May 2005Changing Menu Background Color
I just got Word 2003 on a Win XP machine. Unlike Word 2000 on Win 98, where both my context menus & other menu background colors were controlled by right clicking the desktop, choosing Properties, then Appearance tab, the Word menu colors seem to be independent. Anyone who how to change these colors? -- Thanks in advance, Phil Hi Phil, > I just got Word 2003 on a Win XP machine. Unlike Word 2000 on Win 98, where > both my context menus & other menu background colors were controlled by > right clicking the desktop, choosing Properties, then Appearance tab, the > Word menu colors seem to be independent. Anyone who how to change these > colors? They should also change via the Appearance. But in order to change beyond the three basic colors offered by Windows XP you first need to change the top list to the "Windows classic" colors. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi Cindy: Sorry for the delay in responding, but with a new computer, I've been offline more than on.<G> Under Display Properties/Appearance tab/Advanced, I set Windows & Buttons to Windows Classic Style & Color Scheme from Windows Standard to Windows Classic. However, it still didn't change the background of the Word menus, which is sort of a very light grey. Do you think it could be a corrupt Data key? (I think I'll try deleting it after I back up my options.) Any other ideas, or did I misunderstand your first post? -- Thank you in advance. Phil Hi Phil, > Sorry for the delay in responding, but with a new computer, I've been > offline more than on.<G> Under Display Properties/Appearance tab/Advanced, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > my options.) Any other ideas, or did I misunderstand your first post? > -- I may be misunderstanding what you mean. "Background of the Word menus"? The color behind the captions when you drop down a menu? Doesn't seem to be any way to set that, directly. Word seems to take a light pastel of the current color. For example, if you select "Maple" (I think is what I had) it's a very pale sand color instead of pale blue. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Yes, that's what I mean. In Word 2000, the menus were black type on gray background. Now they are black type on sort of an offwhite background (with a light gray strip down the left). Much harder to read. Do you know of any way to change this? And I'm not sure what you mean when you say you selected "Maple". I don't know where you are selecting the colors. -- Thanks again. I appreciate your time. Phil Such colors are set in Windows display settings. Right-click on your desktop and pick Properties. Click on the Appearance tab and go to work. You may need to click on the Advanced button to get to details.  SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Yes, that's what I mean. In Word 2000, the menus were black type on gray > background. Now they are black type on sort of an offwhite background [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Phil Hi Charles: Good to hear from you again. That's how I started to try to change colors. No matter what color I change from the Appearance/Advanced/Menu color setting, the color of the Word menus doesn't change. I DID discover that if I change the setting for 3D objects, that the Word menus change. However, they seem to be a 2-tone color with a shaded color on the left & a lighter color on the right. Additionally, it changes all 3D objects. In Win98, I was able to get a medium gray background on the menu with black text & could read it readily. Now I can't seem to find such a setting. -- Thanks again. I appreciate your time. Phil I use a pale blue background for my windows, believing it to be easier on my eyes than white. Works in Word but I haven't tried changing the menu colors so I accept what you tell me. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Hi Charles: > Good to hear from you again. That's how I started to try to change [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Phil Hi Phil, > Yes, that's what I mean. In Word 2000, the menus were black type on gray > background. Now they are black type on sort of an offwhite background (with > a light gray strip down the left). Much harder to read. Do you know of any > way to change this? And I'm not sure what you mean when you say you > selected "Maple". I don't know where you are selecting the colors. Selected colors from the list of "theme colors" after changing to the Classic view. And no, I know of no way to force the appearance. FWIW, there were complaints about this during the Office 2003 beta. The remarks from MSFT were along the lines of "try updating your graphics card driver if you can't read it". FWIW, I have no trouble seeing the text on the pastel backgrounds, but I don't know what eye problems you may be contending with :-) However, it would perhaps be worthwhile updating the graphics card driver? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Thanks for the information, Cindy. I'll investigate the graphics card driver (although this is a brand new computer) & maybe play with different colors (thanks Charles). -- Phil Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote: > Hi Phil, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > don't know what eye problems you may be contending with :-) However, it would > perhaps be worthwhile updating the graphics card driver? |
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