How to change the theme of Office 2013

I can't imagine they couldn't offer some themes from pastels to bold and bright. I get sick of the monotony of NO COLOR.

Great example of what works is this blog page! You have Blue/ white / gray and purple. althought there is not much color, it's not all gray. Yes, the icons on the ribbon have some color, but there are a lot of small lines, and much of them have gray and white. So several of them are also hard to focus on quickly. 

Please understand this is just not a complaint, it is a real cause of a health issue, you provided us with something that worked, now we notice it's gone. I can't tell you how many times a day I have to pause many times to stop and read words under the icons because there is not enough color contrast to notice them.  This is time consuming and costing companies about 30 min. to hour a day, and that adds up when you have 6,000 employees and contractors.

Thanks,

Cindy

I agree. If the change saves time, makes our tasks easier I can see the need for change. But if they change a background to black text and gray ribbon on gray back ground that is going backwards. sure it's ok to make a few adjustments for a cleaner look., but dont' make the customers damage their eyes for that cleaner look. Use a few pale contrasting colors.

Cindy

I haven't seen anyone but Microsoft raving about the color theme, maybe I haven't look hard enough.

Here is the bottom line:

Well know fact that eyes notice color/contrast better than gray on gray.  For those of us that have a work load of projects, reading, edit updates, copy and pasting to and from docs 10 hours a day, that gray ribbon on a gray back ground and then the text is black, also a form of gray, it just takes too long for the eye to focus on what we need.

If Microsoft would at least give us an update, an option to change the ribbon background to a few choice pale colors that would be a tremendous help.

I can tell you just 2 weeks of working those long hours is doing more damage to my eyes.

Please don't wait until the next version Microsoft. Have mercy on our eyes.

Thanks, and I will give Kudos to Microsoft as well, there are some very helpful changes to the new version of Office 2013, especially the Read Mode option in Word, and the drop down arrow to collapse a paragraph of text. Way to go on those new features.

Cindy