Bored With Default Blue Colour??

Microsoft Office programs have a default colour scheme, Blue. Appearance of ribbons and menus will depend on this scheme. If you are bored with this colour, Office programs provide additional colours to play with. It’s often refreshing to see a different colour, you can check out below pictures to see how Excel looks under each colour.

Default Blue scheme

 Silver Scheme

Black Scheme

How to Change the Interface Colour Scheme

Excel 2007:

Click the Microsoft Office button > Excel Options > Popular tab > Top options for working with Excel segment > In Color Scheme drop down, select the colour you want from available options i.e. Blue, Silver & Blac.> click OK.

Excel 2010 and later:

File tab > Options > General > User Interface options segment > In Color Scheme drop down, select the colour you want from available options i.e. Blue, Silver & Black > click OK.

Excel 2003 menu colours depend on desktop theme. Read below to know how to change it.

How to Change the Windows Desktop Colour Scheme

Microsoft Windows theme determines the colour and appearance of Excel 2003 interface. Even in later versions of Excel, dialogue boxes use Windows theme settings. So even if you change interface colour scheme as above, you still have to match desktop colour scheme if you want a perfect sync look.

Right click in any empty space of desktop > Properties > Appearance tab > Under Windows and buttons, select Windows XP Style > Under Color Scheme drop down, select one of the available options i.e. Blue, Olive Green & Silver > click OK. Note that this will change the theme of desktop. You may also want to try other options available in these two drop down lists.

Note

Same Interface colour is used by all the Office programs (Except InfoPath 2007, OneNote 2007, Project 2007, Publisher 2007 and Visio 2007). Changing colour in one Office program will change the interface of all other Office programs.