WindowBlinds skinning for Microsoft Office apps?

For some reason skinning isn't working properly on all my Microsoft Office applications. All my other applications are skinned just fine. Am I doing something wrong?
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Reply #1 Top
What do you mean by 'not properly'? Some applications just don't like being skinned (I don't have many issues with Office apps, though). If you be a little more specific, I'm sure someone here will be able to help.

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be = can be ....and I don't even type fast...sheeesh

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Reply #3 Top
Office skins fine for me, always has..

What version of WB and Office?

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I'm running Windows XP, Office 2002 and WindowBlinds 3.4. None of the Office applications has the toolbars or menubars skinned at all. The scrollbars are OK as well as the active title bar.
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Office has its own toolbars and menus. It doesn't get skinned by WB.
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Unfortunately, this is fairly commonplace too - and IIRC it stems from developers insisting on using /their/ own methods of creating menus/etc. than the Windows 'standard'.

Office XP uses the new .NET style toolbars and menus. Windowblinds (and even visual styles,) won't touch them.

I've a ton of programs written in Delphi that don't get their menus and toolbars skinned with either.

(Now those Delphi programs - they do some /weird/ stuff too, like sometimes not appearing at all in my taskbar in Blackbox. ^_^)

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Any ideas whether the version 6 and above WB could sking these office app. windows?
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as far as I know.. no.