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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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
    2013-03-12T21:04:12+00:00

    How do I change the background color for Word 2013.  It came with my Toshiba notebook and I must view all documents with black background and  white letters.  Nothing in this post changes that.   Help please

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-03-09T16:18:23+00:00

    Hi Deepa Raj - How unfortunate that all you do is repeatedly copy the same info from Office help without you or Microsoft responding to the real issue. I am sure all of the people with this same issue tried help before. Basically our comments are ignored and Microsoft's Community is just a one way conversation. We ask for help, you paste standard replies and then ignore the problem because Microsoft thinks the issue is resolved just because someone pasted a reply, even though the reply does not accommodate the requests of the users. In this case, we have a very hard time reading the new Microsoft menu options because we only have choices of dimmed gray.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-03-09T16:08:58+00:00

    I absolutely agree that Dark Gray is not Dark enough. Gray on white is harder to read than black on white!!! Why does Microsoft only give us variations of dim gray colors for the menu options or other options?  Who was the bright person who decided that gray was easier to read than black and that we should have no other choice than variations of gray?  Gray is depressing, it was the standard color to represent DIMed inactive controls, it offers less contrast, and is harder to read.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-03-07T16:20:56+00:00

    Does not seem to be a problem finding the background theme.. The problem is the three lousy color choices MSFT has left us with. There are so many folks with differing sight issues and sensitivities. With all the changes that have been made to the 2013 system, is it really that hard to add more choices that are easier on the eyes ??? We are rolling back our 2013 evals to 2010 until it can be fixed

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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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