How to change the theme of Office 2013

What are the odds that anyone at MS actually reads these forums, much less gives a **** what their customers say.  I am willing to bet they DO read just for the laughs... Bast_rds.

I unfortunately have just gotten office 2013 and its visual appearance is such a huge step backward from office 2003 which I am still using!  It is incredibly ugly and it is no wonder that Microsoft does not do better as a company when they do not know any better than to release software like this.  No color.  Just ugly!!!

I am CTO for a software company.  There is NO way I would release anything like this!

Amen. !!!!!!!!!!  Please return contrasting areas to the office products.  Having used Office since its inception, this has to be one of the top priorities for the Development team!

Why has there not been a patch before now?

Well, here we are years after the original complaint and 8 months on from my own about the awful white themes. No response from Microsoft. What have I done ? Invested in a 27 inch iMac 32 gB, 3.5 gHz and all the trimmings. I am now deliberately trying to get away from Microsoft as a stated personal and business policy. I am in my mid-50's, I run 2 small businesses and I have all the standard nuisance health problems you get at 55+ one of which is increasingly poor eyesight. I simply CANNOT use this software with such an anti-social lousy interface. It stinks of ageism. I don't mean to be nasty but it is painfully obvious that nobody over 18 had any input to the design process of those awful themes - at least, nobody over 55 did. I have gone back to Office 2010 running in VMware and got the Apple version of everything else I possibly can. Ok, I know it is going to take a while to completely migrate because I have a lot of VB code in my Office applications but I am a reasonably competent programmer still (eyesight notwithstanding) and I am looking forward to replacing it all with whatever one does on an Apple.