MS Office Outlook 2021 Contrast when using WindowsBlinds

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Hi All, I was going to purchase WindowsBlinds to fix the low contrast issues caused by MS trying to make everything look like a blank sheet of paper!  It seems to work except for Office Outlook email and calendar which is always running on my PC, it's a work PC.

Here is an example without WindowsBlind where I was hoping Windows Blind would make better, not worse.

Here is a snippet w/ WindowsBlinds, the contrast is actually worse!  Note that this occurs regardless of the theme selected.

Windows 11, Office 2021 standalone (not 365).

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. I can't seem to reproduce your issue on my Windows 10 system. Here a screenshot of my Outlook with Diamond theme applied to the system. I believe there is no contrast issue on this one. Can you show us what it look like if you apply Diamond theme.

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Pretty much the same, maybe a little better? This tool had a dramatic affect on the contrast for Windows Explorer (File Manager).  I think this is MS doing something silly.  I am going to download a trial version of WindowsBlinds on my WIN10 PC that has MS Office 2019 and see if 2019 is better.

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