How to change the theme of Office 2013

The theme is horrible and way to light, very weary for the eyes, I use outlook most often too. Microsoft went from a professional look to a more apple/social/casual design. Please go back!

I have used Microsoft Products since 1982 - this is a giant stuff up. Please get this fixed up urgently. The lack of contrast in the UI makes it very tedious to work with - and it just looks awful - nothing like an Apple product.

Don't want to repeat what everyone else has said, but I concur a zillion percent. My issue is that not only are these color options crappy, but it's a brand new computer. I have no option to roll back to a previous version of Office. Adding to the problem is that apparently these new-fangled touch-screens designed to work with Windows 8 have EXTREME glare. I assume most people have a window in the room where their computer is located. I can see every single blade of grass in the reflection on my screen. My desk is a huge hunk of cherry wood, and I'd have to pay someone to move it so that my computer screen wouldn't receive the window glare. Gee, it would be so much easier if I could adjust the colors of Microsoft Office to compensate for the glare! You know, that very basic thing that Microsoft should have never considered taking away from its customers and shouldn't be thinking twice about rolling out immediately!

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.