Re: Word 2007 Appearance

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Frankly the pale blue colour of Word 2007 is exactly the same as the blue
colour of 2003 and on a decent monitor is quite restful to the eyes. If
yours appears garish and hard to look at, you might do better to investigate
a better monitor. Some cheap monotors are quite hard to look at. There are
no glare or harsh colours from my Viewsonic 19" jobbie, and while at my age
my eyesight is not what it was when I was 25, I can work for hours withour
eye strain.

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tonglo wrote:
Hi Suzanne,

Thank you for your response. I find Word 2007 much brighter because
the application is surrounded, essentially, by one color (blue,
silver, or black). In my humble opinion, this lack of color contrast
does not make for good reading or writing over long periods of time.
In other words, too much strain on the eyes. I've had a "white paper
color" for years but must admit I did try the ivory look recently to
no avail (to offset the above issues). It's disappointing, I think I
could adjust to Word 2007 if I only had the Windows Standard color
style available to me. I'd love to get other user's opinions.

Again, thank you,

Paul

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I don't find Word 2007 any "brighter" than Word 2003. But then I
have my window color (and hence Word's paper color) set to ivory.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"tonglo" <tonglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Cindy,

Thank you very much for your response, I appreciate it. Guess I'm
a bit disappointed in things as I've used Word for so long. I know
I'm just one person out of millions out there, but as a writer; I
can't adjust to the color scheme. Just too bright for me over the
course of a long day (even with adjustments I've tried to make to
my monitor). I question if the developers (who I'm sure are very
talented) considered writers (someone who
uses Word 8 or more hours a day) in their work. In any event, its
my fault.
I put all my efforts into learning and documenting internal software
applications at my employer (which is my jobs) without
consideration to Word.
In other words, I just used Word, accepted the minor changes over
the years,
and ultimately took it for granted. Never thought a change like
this would
happen.

Thanks again,

Paul

"Cindy M." wrote:

Hi =?Utf-8?B?dG9uZ2xv?=,

1. Does anyone know if Microsoft will, eventually, provide users
of Word
2007 the option of displaying their buttons, menus, etc. in the
"Windows
Classic Style?" If so, will users be allowed to change their
color scheme to
"Windows Standard" too?

I'm fairly certain things won't be going back to menus and
toolbars. The Ribbon
is going to be around for a few years. No idea whether they're
planning to add
additional color schemes. From the 2007 beta I know they went from
two to three
color schemes, so I suppose it's possible... At this point, I
really don't think
anyone (outside top people in the Office UI team) has any idea.

2. If the answer is no to the above questions, will the classic
toolbar
toggle and classic menu add-ons let users change the appearance
to the "Windows Classic Style" and "Windows Standard?"

I think I may be able to adjust to things if I can change from the
limited
Blue, Gray, and Black color options (especially when I'm looking
at Word
eight hours a day).

TEchnically, something like that would be difficult, if not
impossible, to
achieve. The color schemes are hard-coded into the Office
applications. I happen
to know the person who programmed toolbar toggle. He's pretty good
at getting
into the guts of things. You could try the Contact link on that
site and ask?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17
2005) http://www.word.mvps.org

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