How to change the theme of Office 2013

To The Russ,

Did you say 2007 is free?

where?

How?

Unfortunately I too am having the same readability problem everyone else is.  Hopefully they realize that having a better appearance to the interface isn't just about making it pretty, it is about our ability to use it, our ability to automatically have eyes go to certain parts of the screen we associate with certain functionality, often times based on the color or eye texture of screen/window components.

This is so like my first word processor in the DOS environment and while DOS may be nostalgic for MS, it is nauseating for the bulk of us.

Please listen to the users - whoops just realized that some of this thread is 1.5 y old??

sorry I misread one of the posting dates

started 10-2012

Hiii,

You can also change your theme  in another way,

1. Click on File  at the top left corner.
2. Then click on Account.
3. You are able to see theme setting on your monitor screen. Three options are available – White default, Light Gray & Dark Gray.

press OK twice then save changes All office 2013 theme  colors will have changed.

Have you actually done that and compared the difference? Also, did you read the rest of the thread on how ineffective this is?

In my experience of dealing with Microsoft for over 10 years as a partner and customers, I find there are lots of people in Microsoft that sit around cooking things up to justify their monthly paychecks and stocks. Customer needs are irrelevant since they can always hire any number of "research companies" to provide data that everything is peachy. Specific to this office UI issue, I know of many very senior engineers in Microsoft that work on other stuff (servers, online, etc...) that absolutely hate it and would not have upgraded if they didn't get pressure from management or the IT department.

The people that created this problem have all been rewarded with bonuses and pay raises so don't expect work anytime soon. After things heat up to the boiling point, the same people who created the problem will either:

1. solve the problem they created simply by bringing back features they took out the last time (easy peasy)
2. create new problems that would make the current ones seem pale in comparison so attention shifts and the old problem magically fades away

As a senior manager of the DBAs in my org, I'm just a user of office but I am also on the standard software committee. I already have and you can be guaranteed I will continue to block standardization of Office 2013 in my company. We already have enough grief from the few pilot groups. Btw, my company has over 70K employees.