Change Background color Theme Office 2013

No progress in over a year. I stopped using 2013 over a year ago. Such a shame customer input is ignored. I used to be in customer service  and marketing. Customer feedback is crucial. If something doesn't work, fix it instead of repeating a useless company line!

YAWN YAWN YAWN the seam old rubbish

There not options there a INSULT and a JOKE

Wow.  Terrible grammar AND spelling.

Some people should refrain from posting.

Last I checked, this was a technical forum not an entertainment community, so you're lack of excitement is not surprising to anyone but you.

So other than proving you're an idiot....what was the point of your post?  FYI, that's a rhetorical question, I don't care what idiots like you think.

You're Living proof that giving people smart phones doesn't help the operator get smarter.

In terms you'll understand, "sit down and shut up."  Note the use of conjunctions.

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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.

Hi Deepa Raj,

Thanks for not actually answering ANY of the real questions asked here.  It is unfortunate that you or any other MS support person seems to care about your end customer enough to actually LISTEN to the question being asked.

For OFFICE 2013 you may follow the below steps:

1.  Provide actual themes which provide color and contrast beyond 3 shades of white
2.  Take some time to listen to the thousands of complaints about this choice and voice some empathy for the customers that would like some personalization of the Office environment that many people spend looking at 10+ hours a day.
3.  Start over and make 2013 look more like 2007 or 2010....FYI, the black theme added in 2007 was one of the MOST popular theme choices by ACTUAL END USERS of Office.
4.  Start rating MS support performance based on results, not number of times you can post a copy/pasted statement to a question that only vaguely addresses the issue.  FURTHER, how about some follow up.  No ONE ASKED where the menu was, the question was is there a BETTER option than the Virtually non-existent choices you rudely told them to go change.
5.  Just a thought here, actually READ the question
6.  Follow through?

I hope these suggestions help you and the Office team make a product that makes use of the new features in Office actually readable, and usable.

If you need any further assistance, I will copy and paste my above response to you and any other MS support person who asks ANY question regarding ANY keyword in the document.  I will disregard your actual words, and simply copy/paste a response.

I hope this was able to assist you in understanding the level of ineptitude and patronizing the support team at Microsoft has conveyed to us, the end users of your product.

Thank you.