How to change the theme of Office 2013

As another over 40 (way over) user with experience in designing user interfaces, I strongly agree with Alex and Phil. This minimalist approach might have been more useful a couple of decades back when we were using small CRT monitors. But with a flat screen monitor bigger than my family TV when I first got married (60's), I have plenty of screen real estate now and I like my options available with as few clicks as possible. That's why I'm still using IE instead of Edge.

There are many things I like about both Windows 10 and Office 365, but were some things "fixed" that weren't broken. As someone who spends hours a day in Office, I could go on and on, but this isn't the venue for that. I want to underscore what Alex (and many others whose posts I've read) said: I think Microsoft  (aka Micro$oft ), ignores a LOT of user input that does not align with where they already want to go. I have been sending them comments for years about some specific (still unfixed) things and these sites are replete with complaints about problems that have persisted since Windows 10 Beta.

Maybe a saying I head long ago applies: "Once a bureaucracy reaches a certain size it no longer needs any contact with the outside world."

Welldone. We are about to enter in 2016 and there is no action... Great!!!

I cant even change it to the blue theme. It is not showing me the personalise option in Preferences>general?????

I cant even change it to the blue theme. It is not showing me the personalise option in Preferences>general?????

Sorry, Andy.

Micro$oft GUI designers know best.

And they are of the belief that we all want a difficult-to-read, eye-aching, obscure interface with no options for personalization and as many extra clicks as possible to former one-click functions.

Welcome to the world of corporate WeDon'tGiveaS***!