How to change the theme of Office 2013

Office 2013 and Windows 8. Why does Microsoft continuously take pleasing UI's and destroy them to such a degree that I (we) don't want to use them anymore. Whoever is behind this at Microsoft should be removed ASAP!! Windows 8 is at least tolerable with 3rd party programs and skins but Office 2013 is not so fortunate. I am joining the masses in asking Microsoft to please do something. When I am looking at a computer screen for 10-12 hours a day, it's just as important for the programs I am using to be pleasing to the eye as well as functional!

Unfortunately, yes, there's a bit of confusion there. I'm sure MS has some "floater" programmers who're shuffled around as each team needs a helping hand however, by and large OS and application programming are two different disciplines that would preclude a cross-product expertise.  

Think of it like automobiles: you wouldn't want an engineer who specializes in body-frames being tasked with fixing a design flaw in a transmission. Sure, a car's a car and it's all engineering but the amount of differing, specialized knowledge involved in those two design fields is overwhelming.

The original question on this thread is a misnomer... it should be "How to I change the appearance of Office 2013 to actually be usable?"

All Microsoft needs to do is add a color palette so we can change the color to something besides those lousy choices of white, light gray, and dark gray.  What's with the stupid monochrome look, anyway?  You could at least add some basic color options!!