How to change the theme of Office 2013

its 2017 and the same problem exists ?!

Office 365 is drab and awful.

This is like when MS release Win8 with no start menu.

Who makes decisions at this company ??

Four years.  Nothing.  I think it's pretty clear this is a lost cause.

I've been using Office Access for many years. 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016.

2003 will always be my favorite UI, a very easy-to-stare-at dark gray, rounded window edges, thick window borders, table/query/form/macro object names that actually HIGHLIGHT when you arrow-key through them with the keyboard. It was wonderful.

When I had to make the painful UI jump from 2003 to 2007, it wasn't easy, but I got through it.

The hard part was writing a replacement GO TO FIELD feature, learning the Navigation Pane and the Ribbon Bar.

But I am helpless with 2013,2016.  Too WHITE.  Too BRIGHT.  In Office 2013, the White / DarkGray / LightGray selections have no affect whatsoever Access.  In Office 2016, the Color themes only affect the top-most header, everything else is still a snowstorm. 

Microsoft will never fix the brightness problem in Access. The mitigation is,

1. turn screen brightness down to zero, turn screen contrast down as low as you can stand it.
2. create and always leave open a form called Dark_Form to completely fill the Access desktop with [Back Color] = [System Button Shadow].
3. Personalization > Change Theme > High Contrast Black.  Hey, it's definitely NOT white!

Here are a few of the complaint links about brightness.  Years of comments. No action. No solution.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice\_install-mso\_other/how-to-change-the-theme-of-office-2013/aadcf2ff-4435-48e1-bc80-c058d6299a61?page=35

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice\_access-mso\_winother/ms-access-2013-runtime-change-white-background/94c54000-6027-4e0d-be17-8f93294e66b3

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice\_access-mso\_windows8/office-color-theme-in-access-and-publisher/88c6b5bf-7236-449f-9463-d6f8a8de75b4

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice\_access-mso\_windows8/microsoft-colors-themes-light-and-dark-grey-dont/1c9272d7-3999-4c41-9907-b27aab66c0ef

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice\_access-mso\_winother/2013unergonomic-back-to-2010/8142d091-071b-49a8-b5e8-2fa34f383bcf

When will Microsoft fix the theme options as current options STINK!   I am asking my company if I can roll back to 2010 as 2013 is not readable, I get headaches and eye strain.  Very poor effort by Microsoft.

I've improved things a tiny bit by calibrating my displays. Right-click on your monitor (not in an app), go to Personalize, Display, then Calibrate Color. It might help you.