Changing Menu Background Color
Phil Rabichow
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?
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Thanks in advance,
Phil
Cindy M -WordMVP-
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
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Phil Rabichow
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?
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Thank you in advance.
Phil
Cindy M -WordMVP-
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.
Phil Rabichow
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.
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Thanks again. I appreciate your time.
Phil
Charles Kenyon
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.
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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.
Cindy M -WordMVP-
> 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?
Charles Kenyon
eyes than white. Works in Word but I haven't tried changing the menu colors
so I accept what you tell me.
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Charles 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!
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(although this is a brand new computer) & maybe play with different colors (thanks
Charles).
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Phil