To change the color of Office 2007, open any of the Office Applications (let's say Word), then click on the thingy in the top left corner for the menu, at the bottom you'll see a button called "word options". Click that, then click the "popular" tab if it hasn't already gone to that page, then under "top options for working with word" there's one that says "Color scheme". rather self explanatory. And the 3 colors to choose between are blue, silver, and black.

I'm a big fan of the 2007 release. It was a worthwhile upgrade. Takes a little bit to get used to the new layout, but then it's faster. It's been designed with an emphasis on speed, and being able to find what you want with a click rather than having to hunt through the menus. Though if you don't like the new interface, there's the classic menu program which changes the tabs and menus to the look of Office 2003. But I'd suggest trying out the new one first and I'm sure you'll like it. Issues with Office 07 so far only are with powerpoint and outlook. Outlook is infernally slow compared to the 2003 version. Powerpoint is awesome, but you've got to use your presentations on computers that run Office 07. You can save it as a 2003 version, but it becomes bigger to the tune of hundreds of MB, and runs slowly as well. Keep it in 07, and you've got a wealth of new features at your fingertips.

Ok, thanks for the instructions....

Oddly, I think I like the blue color scheme the best (even though the black seems to fit well with vista). It just seems to be brighter, and a little more uplifting and not so dreary looking...

As for my experience with Office 2007, i too love the new way of organizing tasks, once you get used to it, it is so much better than having all of those menus everywhere, and I really like it a lot. I got a feeling that more and more applications will start to organize tasks this way. You can just plain find stuff easier, and perform tasks much easier.