WindowBlinds 5

MS office 2003 skinning

Thursday, October 19, 2006 by Linwood | Discussion: WindowBlinds

I could never get word, excel, powerpoint and outlook 2003 to skin. Is anybody else able to get these ms office applications skined?

Thanks

8 Reply 4 Referrals
Yarlen
Reply #1 Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:04 AM
I run them skinned everyday on multiple PCs with no trouble.

ZubaZ
Reply #2 Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:42 AM
Ditto

Post your system information from the WB config. Maybe yoru files got hosed?

Linwood
Reply #3 Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:59 PM
ndowBlinds 5.1 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have 2 monitors.

(IBM ThinkPad 1024x768 LCD panel) 1 is attached to ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300
(IBM ThinkPad 1024x768 LCD panel) 2 is attached to ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300

Wblind.dll 2006/10/09 10:24:20
Wblind64.dll 2006/10/09 11:51:37
Wbsrv.dll 2006/10/09 10:40:18
Wbconfig.exe 2006/10/10 16:39:13
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 21:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:07
Wbui.dll 2005/12/07 01:29:06
Tray.dll 2006/04/13 17:29:23

Bichur
Reply #4 Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:20 PM
weird. I'm using to seeing an hour or so time diff here and there compared to mine, but..

Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 21:54:14
Wbui.dll 2005/12/07 01:29:06

those 2 are 4 hrs diff, while the others match.

Means nada as far as I know, just thought it was weird.

And Office 2003 skins for me too.

You didn't add them to the per application did you?


Linwood
Reply #5 Saturday, October 21, 2006 1:26 AM
Humm...ok, nope didn't add them to per application. The top tool bar of word, excel, powerpoint is skinned....you know the part that says Document1 - Microsoft word...however, the toolbar under that file/edit/view/format/tools/table, etc is not skinned, and if you click file a drop downnappears with open/save as, you know the usually stuff that is not skinned either. Is this the same for other windowblinds users. I have been using object desktop for about two years now....and these MS applications never would skinned, even in version windowsblinds 4.

Any advise???????

KiloKrash
Reply #6 Saturday, October 21, 2006 1:50 AM
The top tool bar of word, excel, powerpoint is skinned....you know the part that says Document1 - Microsoft word...however, the toolbar under that file/edit/view/format/tools/table, etc is not skinned, and if you click file a drop downnappears with open/save as, you know the usually stuff that is not skinned either


This is becuase the developers of MS Office didn't and still doesn't want to use the Windows native UI. There is a post that Neil Banfield (WB developer) commented in that explained this...can't find it, though.

So anyway, my advice is to add it to the per application list if you don't want it skinned, cause there isn't another way of customizing that program to my knowledge.

Linwood
Reply #7 Monday, October 23, 2006 12:47 AM
ok Great thanks for the info....does this applies to adobe products. Like adobe acrobat professional 7 and photoshop CS2 which are not being skinned on the tool bar like file/edit and etc is being skinned but when you click file and the drop down appears that does not get skinned. However macoromedia applications example flash 8, dreamweaver 8, and fireworks is skinned toolbar, drop down and all.

Any advice?

KiloKrash
Reply #8 Monday, October 23, 2006 2:07 AM
Like adobe acrobat professional 7 and photoshop CS2


Adobe I'm not sure on, I only have the reader, but that skins the menus, borders, colors. Ditto for Photoshop CS2.

If this is a system wide problem, I highly recommend you e-mail [email protected]. Usually takes about two days (not counting the weekend) to respond. Just make sure to give them all the info. possible.

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