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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VG
^^ Apply some other theme like Windows Classic and then replace the file.
Red
It's kind of odd, I got it to work but only with VistaVG - Aero 32 but not with Black 32 or Basic 32
Nikolaj
this also works on Vista but remember to rename the mui file in en-US or whatever or your theme selector crashes
@John
Try downloading the original royale noir or royale theme thay have thair own office colors
Nikolaj
oh i just saw this your links on the bottom of the page are blue and the bottom of the page are blue and the links are very hard to read
VG
^^ Clear your browser cache or press "Ctrl+F5" in AskVG.com. Your browser is still showing old images. The footer image has been changed. :)
fowl
Wow, thanks to you I finally got the explanation to that Office 2003 annoyance.
I had installed Vistamizer and wrote to the developer on that topic -- nice helpful guy, by the way, but he had no idea how to fix the problem!
Aquarius
when using your seven xp rc2, eveyrthing's ok
ubut when i edited your visual styles with pe explorer then office 2007 sucks with ugly classical toolbar and icosn
unacceptable
why microsoft so mean
the luna default theme is so ugly and when you change it, you can no longer use office 2007
however thank for your visual style
Someone
Where is the VistaVG RTM.msstyles?
kienhoi
In c:\windows\resources if c is your system disk
Unknown
Nice! I finally have the blue toolbar back!Thanks!