Get the Office 2007 theme colors

[David Thielen]

Hi;

Is there a way to get the theme colors that Office is using on a computer?
We would like to have our AddIn match Office's look & feel on each computer.
So we need to be able to query Office for it's settings.

And for running on Word 2003, it doesn't have themes like 2007 so whould we
use the Windows XP theme? And if so, any idea how to get it's settings?

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

You can figure out the which theme is active (query the registry), but
there is no programmatic method to my knowledge to extract the actual
color values.
You might have to get the Ribbon UI license from Microsoft. Maybe the
documentation you get via the license will list the color values.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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Post by David Thielen
Hi;
Is there a way to get the theme colors that Office is using on a computer?
We would like to have our AddIn match Office's look & feel on each computer.
So we need to be able to query Office for it's settings.
And for running on Word 2003, it doesn't have themes like 2007 so whould we
use the Windows XP theme? And if so, any idea how to get it's settings?
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