We use CD9 and it's pretty great for our needs.   We recently visited a friend who also uses CD9 on Windows XP, and noticed his background was very much different.  Whereas my background and property bar are both 100% white... his menu bar, property bar and status bar is grey (MUCH easier on the eyes.)   We have been using it this way for years and have just gotten use to it, but now that I have seen the difference, I realize its soooo much easier to use the menu when the background is grey with only the page layout white.   In other words... HIS buttons look like they are depressed when he cliks a menu item... and mine do not (because the background is white.)  Even his rulers are grey and mine are white!  Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!  Pat in Minnesota (where the sun always shines and the children are above average)

That's pretty easy! It was nothing done to CD9, actually it is a customization of the WinXP GUI. On your desktop do a rightclick, and select the properties in the flyout. A small window appears and in the fourth tab you can choose how your windows should look like. You can also load default styles and themes with apps like "WindowsBlinds"...

BTW: I am also using a grey theme in due to relax the eyes. I've seen some people using black, but keep in mind that the eyes are more stressed when colors follow on black and otherwise. The eyes are used to see anything, and black is interpreted as nothing (missing of light).

We now have nice "grey" tool bars :)  Thank you for your input - It never occured to us that it would be a windows setting.