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#1 Jan 20, 2008 2:11 am
Word 2008 wood background replacement.
Here's a wood replacement for the Microsoft Office (Word) 2008. By default its a plain light blue background for text editing, but becomes wood when editing stationary templates, etc. With this replacement text editing now shares the same aesthetics as the others. Nothing special overall. Just a little mod I wanted to share. 
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#2 Jan 20, 2008 2:27 am
- appletoast
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
Defiantly nicer on the eyes.
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#4 Jan 20, 2008 12:02 pm
- spacejello
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! This definitely makes my life prettier. No more ugly sad blue background!!
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#5 Jan 20, 2008 2:45 pm
- Nico
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
Sweet, thanks. 
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#6 Jan 20, 2008 4:37 pm
- ConnorCimowsky
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
Looks awesome, the only thing is that the preview suggests that it's glossy. Maybe remove the gloss from the preview?
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#7 Jan 20, 2008 11:38 pm
- kleinmaetschke
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
Can you make some sort of quick tutorial on file sizes and such for creating our own? Love it so far...thanks man.
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#8 Jan 21, 2008 3:57 am
- loft6
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
Is there a way to take the backgrounds from the "Notes" layout in Word 2008 and apply them to the standard background?
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#9 Jan 21, 2008 4:00 am
Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
loft6 wrote:
Is there a way to take the backgrounds from the "Notes" layout in Word 2008 and apply them to the standard background?
kleinmaetschke wrote:
Can you make some sort of quick tutorial on file sizes and such for creating our own? Love it so far...thanks man.
There's no real magic here. All I did was navigate to the application's resources folder (right click app icon > view package contents) and replace the themes default image files with new images of the same name.
With that, you can pretty much mod any visual element within an application.
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#10 Jan 21, 2008 8:20 am
- kleinmaetschke
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
I mean, where is the "top" file placed in the application, does it meet with the bottom half or what?
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#12 Jan 21, 2008 2:38 pm
Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
kleinmaetschke wrote:
I mean, where is the "top" file placed in the application, does it meet with the bottom half or what?
Yeah, there doesn't seem to much logic behind it. They are essentially tiled images, and I see nothing different between the top image and lower images, as long as its a pattern you're including. Good luck.
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#13 Jan 21, 2008 2:43 pm
- Philipp Antoni
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
Actually, if you compare the top and bottom images closely you'll notice that the top one has a slight gradient that gives it some depth 
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#14 Jan 25, 2008 10:09 am
- theprophet09
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
Very cool...Good work
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lol#17 Apr 7, 2008 12:27 pm
- Merlish
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Amazing. Thankyouthankyouthankyou.
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#18 Apr 7, 2008 11:34 pm
- anathematize_f
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this is amazing.. thanks!!! it seems that no APP is getting away these day!!! great job
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#19 Apr 8, 2008 7:01 am
- Giancarlo.D
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
Looks a lot better than the original one. Thanks for sharing
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#21 Apr 18, 2008 8:29 am
- pozerpholife
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
Looks awesome, keep up the good work
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#22 Apr 1, 2009 6:39 am
- Tigerbright
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
I registered just to say thanks for this great modification. I'm a writer by profession and have always detested the ugly grey background colour in Word. Thanks so much, I really appreciate the change.
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#23 Apr 1, 2009 12:13 pm
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No problem. Fighting ugly UI seems to be a consistent theme in life. Glad I could help. I'm sure the bland solid colors don't do alot for comfort or inspiration.
Tigerbright wrote:
I registered just to say thanks for this great modification. I'm a writer by profession and have always detested the ugly grey background colour in Word. Thanks so much, I really appreciate the change.
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#24 Apr 1, 2009 1:02 pm
- sketches
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
Thanks, I like this. It is much easier on the eyes. 
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#25 Apr 4, 2009 5:26 pm
- Levi- The perfectionist
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Re: Word 2008 wood background replacement.
nice!... Ive always liked wood textures, there should be more wood themes out there...
Seems its a very hard thing to perfect in a theme though.
PS- You should all be using iWork (or specifically Pages 09), its underrated in the world of Apple software.
I can't give it enough praise, compared to office 2008- its snappier, simpler, more advanced, more integrated with Mac, more... Maclike all over.
And it is cross compatible with the Office suite. Win Win.
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