How to change the theme of Office 2013

Beauty is only skin deep.

Ugly goes to the bones

(Quote from Murphy's law)

 

Would be so simple to create a skin and make it look better.  I'm susprises there is not ANY 3rd-party app or skin to do so.

Found a couple, but I would not trust them. I am waiting for more reputable companies.

Not sure if it will work.

http://devcomponents.com/blog/?cat=4

Good day,

I want to enable (Error message when you try to save a document in Word 2010: "Word cannot save this file because it is already open elsewhere")when the document is opened by another user.

This document is shared between 12 users through Skydrive. I want only one user to edit the document at a time.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to post your displeasure with the lack of options to change the colors in Office 2013.  I almost purchased a subscription to MS Office 2013 tonight thinking that the lack of color options available, and the inability to get rid of the glaringly white background, was due to the fact that I was using a preview copy.  I concur with everything that all of you have stated.  I too have spent many years looking at a computer screen, everyday, sometimes all day for both work and school.  The first thing I always did with every new version, or new computer, was to adjust the color scheme.  Especially the background for documents and viewing windows.  I always added a slight tinge of yellow and never had a problems with my eyes getting tired.  I can hardly to stand to work in Office 2013 for more then a few minutes at a time.  My eyes start to burn almost immediately, and I am forced to go back to my old computer and work.  This is definitely a productivity killer.  I am so disappointed, and I am hoping that I will be able to run Office 2010 on my Windows 8 machine.  Also, why were such cold colors use?

Thank you for the feedback on Office’s new look. We are actively collecting, sorting and reading through feedback on Office 2013’s design and User Experience. As the audience for Office 2013 grows, we are being mindful of patterns and pain points that emerge from user feedback. While we do not have any additional Themes planned at this time, it is an issue we are watching very closely.

Hi Deepa Raj - How unfortunate that all you do is repeatedly copy the same info from Office help without you or Microsoft responding to the real issue. I am sure all of the people with this same issue tried help before. Basically our comments are ignored and Microsoft's Community is just a one way conversation. We ask for help, you paste standard replies and then ignore the problem because Microsoft thinks the issue is resolved just because someone pasted a reply, even though the reply does not accommodate the requests of the users. In this case, we have a very hard time reading the new Microsoft menu options because we only have choices of dimmed gray.

Give them a lil copy and paste back...all but one workstation has been rolled back to 2010