Most of us use custom 3rd party themes in Windows XP to change its look. But if you use Office 2003, you might have noticed that these custom themes remove the default blue toolbar color in Office 2003 applications and you get the classic grey color instead.
This tutorial will help you in getting back the blue toolbar back in Office 2003 under Windows XP:
Problem Reason:
Actually Office 2003 checks whether you are using default "Luna" theme or not. If it finds that you are using any other theme, it starts showing the ugly classic toolbar.
Solution:
The only work around for this problem is to rename your 3rd party windows theme's msstyles file to "luna.msstyles", e.g., if you are using our "VistaVG" theme, then just rename the "VistaVG.msstyles" to "luna.msstyles". That's it.
The .msstyles file can be found in "Windows\Resources\Themes\custom_theme_name\" folder.
For WindowBlinds users, open "%windir%\wb.ini" file and add MakeOfficeBlue=1 in [global] section. You can change 1 to 2 or 3 to change the color to Green and Silver respectively.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Microsoft Office, Troubleshooting, Windows XP, Windows XP Themes.
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Chris
Thanks so much for the info, it's great to see blue again instead of that ugly classic.
Niels
ik heb Vista maar ik wil allles het liefst in ultimate style
John
Hi
I tried doingwhat you saidbut it didn't work. My theme was a Royale theme and I changed it to whatever you said, but it didn't work. why?
WBUser
That's a wonderful tip thank you so much !!!
Craig
Help - did not work for me. Just reverted my total theme back to standard luna, but kept the new VistaUltimate wallpaper. Must I remove the luna theme from resources first. HELP - I so much wanted the blue back on my Office 2003.
VG
^^ You'll need to re-apply the theme.
Kevin
Oh man! When I renamed "VistaVG Ultimate.msstyles" to "Luna.msstyles" and re-applied the theme i made for it, it says Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. *Sorry for the inconvenience* lol.
When it restarted, it had the windows CLASSIC theme on!! man it was ugly!!
So I renamed the msstyle back and it got fixed, but office stayed the same!
Please help!
I love your site, I just found it recently and it is amazing! Especially the article on how to make your computer look like vista without a customisation pack! It's so much more convenient!
VG
^^ Do one thing. Rename the "Luna" folder to some other name and then rename "VistaVG Ultimate" theme folder to "Luna" and "VistaVG Ultimate.msstyles" to "Luna.msstyles". Now try to apply the theme again.
Kevin
Oh, I tried to rename the folder "Luna" but it said that its in use. It doesn't really matter, I'll download the Unlocker program if i get desperate
Thanks anyway.
PS. LOVE YOUR SITE!!!!!
Red
I'm running into the same problem as Kevin? Any suggestions?