How to change the theme of Office 2013

These themes are completely unacceptable.  I have a new laptop and needed a new license to reinstall office.  I could only find 2013 to purchase.  Is there anyway I can get my 2010 license transferred to my new computer?  Also, how soon will microsoft fix this horrendous layout for office 2013?

It's no surprise that Microsoft is not taking this seriously.  This often happens when people have 9 to 5 jobs and can leave their work at work and don't use applications such as Outlook 2013 (2010, etc) as a "mission critical" applications.  Regardless of what we write, and I know I'm wasting my time, some people will not see this as "life critical", "financially critical" compared to many of us who unfortunately are mostly stuck with Microsoft.  We require optimized communications between customers and all others, while not WASTING time on such GARBAGE as this 2013 Outlook interface.  This was truly POORLY executed and obviously during the development, and the beta of this product, when customer feedback should be paramount to the release of a product, IT WAS NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY.  Well done Microsoft team.  You've not only wasted my time, but thousands of peoples time.  As a large corporate, you've obviously lost perspective, or did not instill the correct perspective into your Outlook 2013 team.  You didn't focus on what the customers want, you simply pushed what YOU wanted onto your customers and that is truly BAD PRACTICE, similar to your Windows 8 strategy, and THAT is another problem for another day.

Please get tools to your software partners so they can develop new themes.

Thank you for your support.

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

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?