Document Themes Part I

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Mike — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:36:14 GMT

On www.isamrad.com : those organisations could perhaps try the accessing through the direct IP address : http://67.19.173.228/...

I know my company blocks a lot of DNS names, but not the IP addresses...

re: Document Themes Part I

Neil Mitchell — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:41:37 GMT

A week ago I couldn't see images on isamrad, since the domain was timing out. Now it isn't, and I can see them once more, for example at http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2006/02/24/538875.aspx.

It doesn't seem to be peoples computers doing the blocking, it was either the site itself or perhaps it was down from certain regions. Either way, it seems to work fine now, so I don't think you need to go to the trouble.

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Mark — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:55:36 GMT

I got lost a bit in the middle of your post. You say there are 12 different colours that can be assigned to Themes, but Colour Picker only has 10 columns.

But then (in the next paragraph) you go on to talk about 10 colours.

Is it 10 or 12?
Wouldn't it be better to have a 1:1 relationship between the Colour Picker & the Theme colours?

re: Document Themes Part I

tj — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:07:39 GMT

To Mark:

The first paragraph in the Theme Colors section states that the two hyperlink colors are not exposed. Thus, 10 appear instead of 12. Check the last sentence of the first paragraph under Theme Colors.

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Gary McGill — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:05:23 GMT

Excellent blog! Is there anyone doing the same thing for Word? I'm interested in Excel, but I'm even more interested in Word and haven't yet been able to find any info about it other than stuff that applies to Office in general.

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Roy — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:21:50 GMT

All the screenshots in your blog show such nice looking spreadsheets. If I can create documents that look like that without spending any time on it, that would be a huge win!

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David Gainer — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:39:38 GMT

Gary, apparently a Word blog is in the works. I will let you know when they are underway.

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Harlan Grove — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:29:08 GMT

Did professional clothes designers come up with leisure suits?

Did professional automobile designers come up with the Edsel? Or the Pinto?

Was Christopher Wren a professional architect?

Does anyone else despair of the uniformity to come, occasionally interrupted by 'tweaking' transforming the common into the bizarre?

re: Document Themes Part I

David Gainer — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:13:19 GMT

Harlan, I would certainly call Christopher Wren a professional architect, with the number of works attributed to him.

Back to Excel - my theory is variation will be greater. For starters, folks now have 32 million colours to play with, not 54. Second, "standard" colours are still right there to be played with, so this is just some additional functionality. Finally, most users today simply use default formatting (download a few .xls from the web ... most of the charts look exactly the same). Themes, along with styles, give people some very simple ways to make some very different looking documents.

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