How to change the theme of Office 2013

Anonymous
2012-10-25T13:14:57+00:00

How do I change the Theme in Office 2013?

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Anonymous
2012-10-25T13:15:23+00:00

You can change the theme in Office by clicking File > Account page in any Office product with the exception of Outlook. In Outlook, Click File > Office Account to change the theme.

There are three themes available in Office 2013:

White - Default

Light Gray

Dark Gray

For more information, view the page below:

Change the Office theme

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-02-15T18:30:52+00:00

    I' also started off "cheering" for Microsoft, but that was months ago. No more cheering now. The only response from Microsoft is that they are monitoring "pain points"? Seriously? This is how bad it's gotten?

    Anyone believe that Bill's return will solve anything with Office 2013? If he reads this forum he'll probably croak before he has a chance to fire the Office 2013 team.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-03T18:27:07+00:00

    It's not just the rigid "we know better than you do what you want" inability to alter anything related to active window borders, fonts or font formatting, not just the no-brainer courtesy that some simple coding could have achieved in retaining the preferences from people's Office 2010 suite, it's that horrid thing on the left-hand side you have to plow through just to get something opened or saved. 

    Once upon a time, you could click on File and then on Save As, and up would pop your system's Explorer screen, from which you could pick a destination.  Now it's an exciting vertical bar down the left edge, which opens up an exciting column of fashionable icons with "Computer" and "+Add A Place" and "Browse," which if you manage to jump through everything correctly, will get you to that Holy Grail of Computing, the... Explorer window.

    Is this necessary?  I'm thinking it provided a "Team" at Microsoft a whole lot of exciting busywork for a few weeks, but for the rest of us it's ten more needless, mind-numbing navigation steps to do something that used to be simple and intuitive. 

    Clicking on that catastrophic "New program updates are available" bait is the single worst decision I've made on this system in a decade.   Can you just admit you screwed up, and give us back our Office 2010?

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-04T19:16:53+00:00

    Well said!

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-06T14:39:56+00:00

    Is there a way to set the default theme through the OCT?  I want my users to see the light grey theme by default in all Office 2013 applications, as I am suppressing the "First Run" dialog via the OCT.  I looked through the user settings listing and did not see a setting to do this.

    We, too, would like to configure the default Office 2013 theme for our users upon installation. 

    Is there a way to set this through the Office Customization Tool (OCT)?

    Any insight is appreciated!

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