Change Background color Theme Office 2013

Anonymous
2013-01-12T15:28:57+00:00

Has anyone come up with how to Change the Color on the Office 2013 Them from "gray".  Microsoft has really not been user friendly with Windows 8 or Office 2013 in enabling the user to change their environment.

I think Microsoft does not read these forum questions.  Otherwise, some of the technical people would be contacting their customers to gain feedback.

I am extremely disappointed in the Office 13 and Win8 programs. 

Anyone got any ideas?

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Anonymous
2013-01-13T13:21:44+00:00

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Hi,

Thanks for posting in Microsoft Community. It is unfortunate that you are unable to locate the option in Office 2013 to change the theme of applications. Let me help you with the issue.

For the Office 2013 (RTM) version you may follow the below steps:

  1. Go to the File tab
  2. Click on Options
  3. Choose the General tab on the left
  4. Find the ‘O ffice Theme’ dropdown item
  5. Choose between White, Light Gray, and Dark Gray.

If you have Office 2013 preview version installed, then you have an option to change the background color by clicking on File, Options, General and under the group 'Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office', you may choose the background you wish to change to and click ok.

If you are using preview version of Office then you have a Smiley on the top right hand side of the application, you may click on it and send in your feedback.

I hope the above steps help. If you need any further assistance reply and we will be glad to assist you.

Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-10-20T07:52:42+00:00

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    Hi,

    Thanks for posting in Microsoft Community. It is unfortunate that you are unable to locate the option in Office 2013 to change the theme of applications. Let me help you with the issue.

    For the Office 2013 (RTM) version you may follow the below steps:

    1. Go to the File tab
    2. Click on Options
    3. Choose the General tab on the left
    4. Find the ‘O ffice Theme’ dropdown item
    5. Choose between White, Light Gray, and Dark Gray.

    If you have Office 2013 preview version installed, then you have an option to change the background color by clicking on File, Options, General and under the group 'Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office', you may choose the background you wish to change to and click ok.

    If you are using preview version of Office then you have a Smiley on the top right hand side of the application, you may click on it and send in your feedback.

    I hope the above steps help. If you need any further assistance reply and we will be glad to assist you.

    Thank you.

    The problem is not how to find the options, it's about what users can change about the color. Don't you think White, Light Gray and Dark Gray not enough, also too boring? We want Blue, Pink, Green, Orange!

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-10-07T01:09:17+00:00

    What you are providing for an answer, is not the answer to the question. We know how to change to any of the 3 oppressive and headache generating choices of white, light gray and "dark" gray. The question posed is how to customize the color to something outside of those 3 choices and if that is not an option at this moment, is MS going to correct this with a patch or update.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-09-26T14:08:30+00:00

    Thank goodness for this posting!  Why is white the automatic background, it hurts my eyes, and I find it distracting to not be able to see the edges of my document.  I'm on a dark gray background now and am annoyed that I even had to blunder around for these instructions.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-09-18T23:20:24+00:00

    wow

    They decided to bring bark the BLACK theme !

    I'll forgive Microsoft if Office 2015 really looks like this:

    Except maybe for:

    • All caps menus
    • Wasted space between the items and ribbon size too high

    At least color is awesome compared to 2013

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