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Visual Styles

It is possible to change the overall style and color of the Enterprise Architect user interface to match the standard styles (or themes) of a number of Microsoft Office and Visual Studio product releases.

Access    View | Visual Style | Select Visual Style

Reset the style of the user interface

Step

Action

See also

1

On the Application Look dialog, select the radio button for the style you want to set.

Note that if you select the:

Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010 or Microsoft Office 2013 radio buttons, you can also select from a drop-down list of base-color options
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 radio button, you can also select either a dark or a light base color
Microsoft Office 2013 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 radio buttons, the Accent Color field, is enabled, and you can select from a drop-down list of colors for the active window borders and highlighting

 

 

2

To just try out a style, select it and click on the Apply button.

The current user interface setup is redisplayed in the selected style.

 

 

3

When you have selected the style you want to use, click on the OK button.

 

 

Notes

You can also apply a specific color and format theme to all diagrams that you display

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