Customizing the Button Text, Face, and Shadow Color

ID: Q81783

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SUMMARY

The Microsoft Windows version 3.0 and 3.1 Button Face, Button Shadow, and Button Text settings affect the appearance of the toolbar, the status bar and the tab alignment button (Word version 6.0 only) in Word for Windows. If you change the gray Button Face color, the toolbar buttons and the status bar display in the new color. The WIN.INI button color settings also affect the dark gray shadow for the toolbar buttons and the black text for the toolbar and status bar.

Button colors can be modified directly in the Colors section of the Control Panel in the Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.1.

MORE INFORMATION

The default color settings are as follows: 

   Button Face = Gray
   Button Shadow = Dark Gray
   Button Text = Black
You cannot change these items directly from the Windows version 3.0 Colors icon in the Control Panel. To change the button colors, use Windows Notepad or the Sysedit application to edit the [Colors] section of the WIN.INI file: 

   ButtonFace=192 192 192
   ButtonShadow=130 130 130
   ButtonText=0 0 0
The above WIN.INI settings are the default values for the button colors. If these values are changed, the toolbar and status bar colors will be affected.

Note: The toolbar button face color will not change colors if the following setting is listed under the [Microsoft Word 2.0] heading in your WIN.INI file: 

 LoadToolbarBitmaps=1 or LoadToolbarBitmaps=yes
This setting is used to load custom toolbar buttons. When this setting is in effect, the toolbar button face color does not change to the setting in Control Panel Colors.

KBCategory: KBSubcategory: Additional query words: tool bar winword2 w_win3 toolbar 2.0 word6 winword 2.0a 2.0a 

Version           : 2.0 2.0a 2.0a-CD 2.0b 2.0c
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: February 6, 1998