Changed Word/Outlook view

[Sin_Tax]

Hi Evryone,

Im not sure if this is the right place to post this.

Windows downloaded an Office 2003 update this morning on my Computer and since then the views where the icons are on MS Word and MS Outlook have changed.

The top part of the page in MS Word and Outlook (where the icons are) used to be in blue and now it has the same look as when you hit Alt-F11.

I know it sounds la little silly but its been driving me nuts all day (I WANT MY BLUE!!)

 

[Von Pookie]

I'm afraid I can't really figure out what you mean. Could you post a small screenshot of the area?

 

[Sin_Tax]

Does the HTML maker work in Outlook or Word?

I'll try to post a picture of it here, hope it will work (this is the Outlook view that I have now).

http://i34.tinypic.com/2cy29v.jpg

 

[Von Pookie]

Oh, ok. That is nothing in the programs themselves, that would be a display setting on the computer.

If you right-click anywhere on the desktop, click Properties, then the Appearance tab. Did your settings somehow get changed to 'Windows Classic' style instead of 'Windows XP style?'

 

[Sin_Tax]

I'll post two pics of Word here so you can see the difference

http://i33.tinypic.com/2po5i7p.jpg

 

[Sin_Tax]

http://i34.tinypic.com/rj1g7d.jpg

 

[Sin_Tax]

Just checked, its set to Windows XP Defaul, Blue.

The funny thing is that the Outlook homepage is in Blue but when I hit reply to an email thats when I get this "traditional" look.

Sorry about posting the pics here, I will make sure to post the links to the pics in the future.

 

[Von Pookie]

Just checked, its set to Windows XP Defaul, Blue.

The funny thing is that the Outlook homepage is in Blue but when I hit reply to an email thats when I get this "traditional" look.

That is something I've never seen. Hrm...

Sorry about posting the pics here, I will make sure to post the links to the pics in the future.

I changed it simply because the images were too large. If it's a small image there should be no problem with displaying it

 

[Von Pookie]

I'm afraid I can't really seem to find much on this, other than checking the display settings. Have you tried (re)setting the display to the default XP theme? Back in the Display dialog, the 'Themes' tab should have an option of 'Windows XP' in the list. If you select that and apply it, it should set the display back to the default.

The only other thing I can think of is to tweak the colors manually, and sometimes that's more of a pain than anything.

The only other thing I found was this:
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-get-bac...t-office-2003-in-3rd-party-windows-xp-themes/

 

[Sin_Tax]

I changed the theme to windows xp default and that fixed.

Dont know what caused this inthe first place.


Thanks for your help.