How to change the theme of Office 2013

Two things you can do

1. Vote with your wallet/IT budget - our company's standard software board (I'm a member) have moved Office off the standard list to special requests only list. Individuals and teams now have to provide justification for upgrading to current or newer versions. We're actively testing various other open source options for broad replacement. It's been a long and consuming process but we believe we will be better in the long run. I'm sure we'll still have bits and pieces of office here and there but that should be less than 10% of our 70K employees when all is done. We used to be 100%.
2. Email their executives directly - if you really can't get rid of this really bad piece of software, then email their senior executives even up to the CEO. Ask your account rep, TAM, PFE, etc... for the email ID or just figure it out based on their names; it's not that hard. I won't bother with the middle managers since they're the ones that likely approved or even came up with these color schemes, or at least their teams did. The incompetent will protect their own so skip them entirely and go straight to the top.

You should also research the various laws and/or requirements related to visual settings for software. I have not heard of having bad setting being illegal but I do know of government agencies having requirements for contrast and color settings to ensure users with vision limitations/problems and setup they way they need to. Software that don't meet the requirements are not eligible to be proposed in response to RFPs.

I agree %100 Angie and most people ignore the power we have as consumers.

1. Vote with your wallet/IT budget 

Obviously, many companies and individuals are doing just that. 

Reported this quarter: "[Micro$oft] Revenue fell 5% to $22.18bn amid weak demand for its Windows operating system."

Perhaps poor financial reports will ultimately force MSFT to pay attention to its consumers. We can but hope. Companies who arrogantly ignore their customer base eventually always lose out. Ask the creators of Quark Xpress how that works. Once the premiere publishing program, used by anyone who took design & layout seriously, the makers stopped listening to their public and were displaced, in a very short period of years, by Adobe InDesign. Nowadays, most younger designers have never heard of Quark Xpress.

MSFT believe they are above such concerns. Clearly, they are not. Profits are falling...

Micro$oft! Sit up! Pay attention! Your present user interfaces for your latest O/S & all apps are ****!

Geez. My first Apple SE, *thirty years ago,*had a friendlier GUI.

Sigh...

Watching very closely? This mesage was from 2 and a half YEARS ago and no additional themes. How about someone get off their butt and add additional themes. The person who is currently NOT allowing themes to be added needs to be fired immediately, just for gross incompetence.