Display/Theme problem in MS Office

[jskr]

I'm using Office 2003 on XP & my entire MS Office suite is reverting back to the classic theme.

All the help topics I can find about setting the appearance of your MS Office theme is that whatever XP theme you choose (e.g. blue, silver, etc) will be inherited by Office.

I have the silver theme applied (& I've tried changing it to blue, back to silver, rebooting, etc). For some reason Office is not inheriting my XP theme.

Does anyone know why Office might be hung up in the classic view?

Thanks much!
Jessica

 

[jskr]

still stuck on this... I'm totally stumped.

If you have any ideas I would be grateful

 

[JPaules]

Outside of the silver or blue themes, have you tried any of the other schemes?

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JP

 

[kjv1611]

Hmm, not sure, but you might need to try what was mentioned in this thread:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1488095

I had been dealing with that off an on for some time, but this was the fix for me.

Otherwise, occasionally it was fixed by just restarting Windows.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[jskr]

Hi-- thanks for the posts.

JPaules-- Under Display Properties->Appearance->Windows & Buttons, I tried all the options I see (windows XP blue, silver & olive as well as switching to classic and then switching back to one of the XP options). When I do an XP option it does show up on the very top of the window (with the minimize-restore-close button & on scrollbars). It's all the menus & icons thats are a problem.

kjv1611-- Thanks for that thread, I checked it out. From that one post that appeared to solve your prob, it looks I've tried the 1st 2 options and the last one, the SMS, I don't think I have...

no luck yet.

 

[kjv1611]

I'd check just to be sure. It specifically will be listed under "displays" in your device manager. The first 2 items weren't what fixed mine, it was the third. If your machine is on a company network where they do maintenance on machines at all across that network, then it's a decent chance that is your issue.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[jskr]

You're totally right -- There is an SMS Mirror Driver. It was just collapsed under "Display Adapters."

I'm looking into what I can do now... will let you know if it works. thank you!