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November 16th 06, 05:01 AM
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Office 2007 Colors Scheme
I use XP's Silver scheme. Why do some Office 2007 apps use a BLUE color
scheme while others like (Publisher) use the right scheme (XP Silver). It looks horrible and contrasts with everything. Why the disparity?!!! -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com 
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November 16th 06, 06:32 AM
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Hi C.,
For the 2007 Office System, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, parts of Outlook and MS Access received the new 'Ribboned' interface. Those apps use the 2007 Office theme for the Ribbon element and for their 'old style' dialog boxes, they pickup the Windows color settings. For the apps that stayed with the 'traditional' menus, such as MS Publisher 2007, the 'old rules' still apply as to what coloring they follow. For backround and specifics on the User Interface changes you may want to visit the Office UI team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh ================ "C. Moya" wrote in message ... I use XP's Silver scheme. Why do some Office 2007 apps use a BLUE color scheme while others like (Publisher) use the right scheme (XP Silver). It looks horrible and contrasts with everything. Why the disparity?!!! -C. Moya -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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November 16th 06, 07:08 AM
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Office 2007 Colors Scheme
I'm not going to tell all my users to visit a blog. This is UI 101. I guess
they'll have to contend with an increasingly inconsistent and headache-inducing UI... or not upgrade to Office 2007 at all. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi C., For the 2007 Office System, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, parts of Outlook and MS Access received the new 'Ribboned' interface. Those apps use the 2007 Office theme for the Ribbon element and for their 'old style' dialog boxes, they pickup the Windows color settings. For the apps that stayed with the 'traditional' menus, such as MS Publisher 2007, the 'old rules' still apply as to what coloring they follow. For backround and specifics on the User Interface changes you may want to visit the Office UI team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh ================ "C. Moya" wrote in message ... I use XP's Silver scheme. Why do some Office 2007 apps use a BLUE color scheme while others like (Publisher) use the right scheme (XP Silver). It looks horrible and contrasts with everything. Why the disparity?!!! -C. Moya -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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November 16th 06, 08:58 AM
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Office 2007 Colors Scheme
Bob didn't mean that your users should read the blog. He meant that you
should go to the blog and read about how Office picks the color scheme. The short is that the non-Ribbon apps pick a color scheme automatically based on what the Windows setting is while the Ribbon apps have a setting you can change. That setting is in Options, Popular and is labeled "Color Scheme". To read the explanation of how the color scheme stuff works in 2007 and when Office picks what, read these two blog posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...10/694577.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...14/699304.aspx Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I'm not going to tell all my users to visit a blog. This is UI 101. I guess they'll have to contend with an increasingly inconsistent and headache-inducing UI... or not upgrade to Office 2007 at all. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi C., For the 2007 Office System, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, parts of Outlook and MS Access received the new 'Ribboned' interface. Those apps use the 2007 Office theme for the Ribbon element and for their 'old style' dialog boxes, they pickup the Windows color settings. For the apps that stayed with the 'traditional' menus, such as MS Publisher 2007, the 'old rules' still apply as to what coloring they follow. For backround and specifics on the User Interface changes you may want to visit the Office UI team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh ================ "C. Moya" wrote in message ... I use XP's Silver scheme. Why do some Office 2007 apps use a BLUE color scheme while others like (Publisher) use the right scheme (XP Silver). It looks horrible and contrasts with everything. Why the disparity?!!! -C. Moya -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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November 16th 06, 09:35 AM
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Office 2007 Colors Scheme
I don't really think normal users care about the technical differences
between Ribbon and Non-ribbon apps. None of what Jensen said (and I've read it before) explains why some Office 2007 apps on my desktop are BLUE and others Silver. Horrible, inconsistent, UI if you ask me. Just plain bad. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... Bob didn't mean that your users should read the blog. He meant that you should go to the blog and read about how Office picks the color scheme. The short is that the non-Ribbon apps pick a color scheme automatically based on what the Windows setting is while the Ribbon apps have a setting you can change. That setting is in Options, Popular and is labeled "Color Scheme". To read the explanation of how the color scheme stuff works in 2007 and when Office picks what, read these two blog posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...10/694577.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...14/699304.aspx Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I'm not going to tell all my users to visit a blog. This is UI 101. I guess they'll have to contend with an increasingly inconsistent and headache-inducing UI... or not upgrade to Office 2007 at all. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi C., For the 2007 Office System, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, parts of Outlook and MS Access received the new 'Ribboned' interface. Those apps use the 2007 Office theme for the Ribbon element and for their 'old style' dialog boxes, they pickup the Windows color settings. For the apps that stayed with the 'traditional' menus, such as MS Publisher 2007, the 'old rules' still apply as to what coloring they follow. For backround and specifics on the User Interface changes you may want to visit the Office UI team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh ================ "C. Moya" wrote in message ... I use XP's Silver scheme. Why do some Office 2007 apps use a BLUE color scheme while others like (Publisher) use the right scheme (XP Silver). It looks horrible and contrasts with everything. Why the disparity?!!! -C. Moya -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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November 16th 06, 10:14 AM
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Yes, it does explain it. Which ones are blue and which ones are silver?
Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I don't really think normal users care about the technical differences between Ribbon and Non-ribbon apps. None of what Jensen said (and I've read it before) explains why some Office 2007 apps on my desktop are BLUE and others Silver. Horrible, inconsistent, UI if you ask me. Just plain bad. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... Bob didn't mean that your users should read the blog. He meant that you should go to the blog and read about how Office picks the color scheme. The short is that the non-Ribbon apps pick a color scheme automatically based on what the Windows setting is while the Ribbon apps have a setting you can change. That setting is in Options, Popular and is labeled "Color Scheme". To read the explanation of how the color scheme stuff works in 2007 and when Office picks what, read these two blog posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...10/694577.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...14/699304.aspx Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I'm not going to tell all my users to visit a blog. This is UI 101. I guess they'll have to contend with an increasingly inconsistent and headache-inducing UI... or not upgrade to Office 2007 at all. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi C., For the 2007 Office System, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, parts of Outlook and MS Access received the new 'Ribboned' interface. Those apps use the 2007 Office theme for the Ribbon element and for their 'old style' dialog boxes, they pickup the Windows color settings. For the apps that stayed with the 'traditional' menus, such as MS Publisher 2007, the 'old rules' still apply as to what coloring they follow. For backround and specifics on the User Interface changes you may want to visit the Office UI team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh ================ "C. Moya" wrote in message ... I use XP's Silver scheme. Why do some Office 2007 apps use a BLUE color scheme while others like (Publisher) use the right scheme (XP Silver). It looks horrible and contrasts with everything. Why the disparity?!!! -C. Moya -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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November 16th 06, 11:08 AM
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Office 2007 Colors Scheme
It might "explain" it to you and me... technical people. It doesn't REALLY
explain why- aside from technical difficulties- Office 2007 installs with a BLUE a theme on a WinXP set up to use XP Silver's scheme. In other words, what I mean is that it doesn't JUSTIFY this totally against-UI-conventions decision. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... Yes, it does explain it. Which ones are blue and which ones are silver? Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I don't really think normal users care about the technical differences between Ribbon and Non-ribbon apps. None of what Jensen said (and I've read it before) explains why some Office 2007 apps on my desktop are BLUE and others Silver. Horrible, inconsistent, UI if you ask me. Just plain bad. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... Bob didn't mean that your users should read the blog. He meant that you should go to the blog and read about how Office picks the color scheme. The short is that the non-Ribbon apps pick a color scheme automatically based on what the Windows setting is while the Ribbon apps have a setting you can change. That setting is in Options, Popular and is labeled "Color Scheme". To read the explanation of how the color scheme stuff works in 2007 and when Office picks what, read these two blog posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...10/694577.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...14/699304.aspx Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I'm not going to tell all my users to visit a blog. This is UI 101. I guess they'll have to contend with an increasingly inconsistent and headache-inducing UI... or not upgrade to Office 2007 at all. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi C., For the 2007 Office System, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, parts of Outlook and MS Access received the new 'Ribboned' interface. Those apps use the 2007 Office theme for the Ribbon element and for their 'old style' dialog boxes, they pickup the Windows color settings. For the apps that stayed with the 'traditional' menus, such as MS Publisher 2007, the 'old rules' still apply as to what coloring they follow. For backround and specifics on the User Interface changes you may want to visit the Office UI team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh ================ "C. Moya" wrote in message ... I use XP's Silver scheme. Why do some Office 2007 apps use a BLUE color scheme while others like (Publisher) use the right scheme (XP Silver). It looks horrible and contrasts with everything. Why the disparity?!!! -C. Moya -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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November 16th 06, 11:15 AM
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Office 2007 Colors Scheme
It gives the user the choice to pick whatever scheme they prefer for
their Office ribbon apps. Doesn't sound like a complicated technical explanation to me. Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : It might "explain" it to you and me... technical people. It doesn't REALLY explain why- aside from technical difficulties- Office 2007 installs with a BLUE a theme on a WinXP set up to use XP Silver's scheme. In other words, what I mean is that it doesn't JUSTIFY this totally against-UI-conventions decision. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... Yes, it does explain it. Which ones are blue and which ones are silver? Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I don't really think normal users care about the technical differences between Ribbon and Non-ribbon apps. None of what Jensen said (and I've read it before) explains why some Office 2007 apps on my desktop are BLUE and others Silver. Horrible, inconsistent, UI if you ask me. Just plain bad. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... Bob didn't mean that your users should read the blog. He meant that you should go to the blog and read about how Office picks the color scheme. The short is that the non-Ribbon apps pick a color scheme automatically based on what the Windows setting is while the Ribbon apps have a setting you can change. That setting is in Options, Popular and is labeled "Color Scheme". To read the explanation of how the color scheme stuff works in 2007 and when Office picks what, read these two blog posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...10/694577.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...14/699304.aspx Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I'm not going to tell all my users to visit a blog. This is UI 101. I guess they'll have to contend with an increasingly inconsistent and headache-inducing UI... or not upgrade to Office 2007 at all. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi C., For the 2007 Office System, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, parts of Outlook and MS Access received the new 'Ribboned' interface. Those apps use the 2007 Office theme for the Ribbon element and for their 'old style' dialog boxes, they pickup the Windows color settings. For the apps that stayed with the 'traditional' menus, such as MS Publisher 2007, the 'old rules' still apply as to what coloring they follow. For backround and specifics on the User Interface changes you may want to visit the Office UI team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh ================ "C. Moya" wrote in message ... I use XP's Silver scheme. Why do some Office 2007 apps use a BLUE color scheme while others like (Publisher) use the right scheme (XP Silver). It looks horrible and contrasts with everything. Why the disparity?!!! -C. Moya -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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November 16th 06, 12:37 PM
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Really? I wasn't presented with "the choice" at any time. I had to dig
around for the option. Sure I found it... but still. And it still doesn't justify the anti-conventions thing. I guess (taking IE7 as an example) long established norms, UI conventions and explicit guidelines are out the window. This is exactly what many of us spent the last 10 years telling our freshman VB colleague programmers NOT to do. Enter the huge magenta buttons and yellow background windows that don't use any of Windows' color definitions. Oooh I can't wait. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... It gives the user the choice to pick whatever scheme they prefer for their Office ribbon apps. Doesn't sound like a complicated technical explanation to me. Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : It might "explain" it to you and me... technical people. It doesn't REALLY explain why- aside from technical difficulties- Office 2007 installs with a BLUE a theme on a WinXP set up to use XP Silver's scheme. In other words, what I mean is that it doesn't JUSTIFY this totally against-UI-conventions decision. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... Yes, it does explain it. Which ones are blue and which ones are silver? Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I don't really think normal users care about the technical differences between Ribbon and Non-ribbon apps. None of what Jensen said (and I've read it before) explains why some Office 2007 apps on my desktop are BLUE and others Silver. Horrible, inconsistent, UI if you ask me. Just plain bad. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... Bob didn't mean that your users should read the blog. He meant that you should go to the blog and read about how Office picks the color scheme. The short is that the non-Ribbon apps pick a color scheme automatically based on what the Windows setting is while the Ribbon apps have a setting you can change. That setting is in Options, Popular and is labeled "Color Scheme". To read the explanation of how the color scheme stuff works in 2007 and when Office picks what, read these two blog posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...10/694577.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...14/699304.aspx Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I'm not going to tell all my users to visit a blog. This is UI 101. I guess they'll have to contend with an increasingly inconsistent and headache-inducing UI... or not upgrade to Office 2007 at all. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi C., For the 2007 Office System, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, parts of Outlook and MS Access received the new 'Ribboned' interface. Those apps use the 2007 Office theme for the Ribbon element and for their 'old style' dialog boxes, they pickup the Windows color settings. For the apps that stayed with the 'traditional' menus, such as MS Publisher 2007, the 'old rules' still apply as to what coloring they follow. For backround and specifics on the User Interface changes you may want to visit the Office UI team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh ================ "C. Moya" wrote in message ... I use XP's Silver scheme. Why do some Office 2007 apps use a BLUE color scheme while others like (Publisher) use the right scheme (XP Silver). It looks horrible and contrasts with everything. Why the disparity?!!! -C. Moya -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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November 16th 06, 12:58 PM
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Really? I wasn't presented with "the choice" at any time. I had to dig
around for the option. Sure I found it... but still. And it still doesn't You can't call seeing it on the first option screen digging around. justify the anti-conventions thing. I guess (taking IE7 as an example) long established norms, UI conventions and explicit guidelines are out the window. If you come up with a completely new UI methodology (the ribbon) which is the first real new thing in UI design since the 1970s (menus and toolbars were invented back then), then why should you follow some established norms, conventions and guidelines that are much younger than that? The Ribbon breaks the most fundamental UI concepts that are decades old. If I had to design it, I could have also cared less for some 5-10 year old less fundamental conventions. Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... It gives the user the choice to pick whatever scheme they prefer for their Office ribbon apps. Doesn't sound like a complicated technical explanation to me. Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : It might "explain" it to you and me... technical people. It doesn't REALLY explain why- aside from technical difficulties- Office 2007 installs with a BLUE a theme on a WinXP set up to use XP Silver's scheme. In other words, what I mean is that it doesn't JUSTIFY this totally against-UI-conventions decision. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... Yes, it does explain it. Which ones are blue and which ones are silver? Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I don't really think normal users care about the technical differences between Ribbon and Non-ribbon apps. None of what Jensen said (and I've read it before) explains why some Office 2007 apps on my desktop are BLUE and others Silver. Horrible, inconsistent, UI if you ask me. Just plain bad. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message ... Bob didn't mean that your users should read the blog. He meant that you should go to the blog and read about how Office picks the color scheme. The short is that the non-Ribbon apps pick a color scheme automatically based on what the Windows setting is while the Ribbon apps have a setting you can change. That setting is in Options, Popular and is labeled "Color Scheme". To read the explanation of how the color scheme stuff works in 2007 and when Office picks what, read these two blog posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...10/694577.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...14/699304.aspx Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "C. Moya" wrote in message : I'm not going to tell all my users to visit a blog. This is UI 101. I guess they'll have to contend with an increasingly inconsistent and headache-inducing UI... or not upgrade to Office 2007 at all. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi C., For the 2007 Office System, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, parts of Outlook and MS Access received the new 'Ribboned' interface. Those apps use the 2007 Office theme for the Ribbon element and for their 'old style' dialog boxes, they pickup the Windows color settings. For the apps that stayed with the 'traditional' menus, such as MS Publisher 2007, the 'old rules' still apply as to what coloring they follow. For backround and specifics on the User Interface changes you may want to visit the Office UI team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh ================ "C. Moya" wrote in message ... I use XP's Silver scheme. Why do some Office 2007 apps use a BLUE color scheme while others like (Publisher) use the right scheme (XP Silver). It looks horrible and contrasts with everything. Why the disparity?!!! -C. Moya -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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