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
    2015-11-17T20:27:49+00:00

    There is simply NO EXCUSE for not providing us the ability to choose any set of colors we want!!!  I used to do that with Openwindows on my Sun in the 90s, for goodness' sake.  Light gray text on lighter gray background has to be the absolute worst for visual human factors, leading to eyestrain.  In my openwindows I made my borders dark gray with darker accents, with a medium beige background and dark text.  Much better on the eyes!  And I could change the colors for different windows to signal myself as to what application I was working with.  Office 2013 (and its IE counterpart) absolutely stinks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-02T14:29:44+00:00

    I've chosen between White, Light Gray and Dark Gray, and the highlited window of Office looks almonst the same as before. If you are using Excel and you have a row and column cell selected, it's very difficult with those 3 only options to understand which one is selected. With Office 2007 (and before) was very easy to see which cell was selected and which Office window was highlighted...

    I don't understand why all the other windows applications inherits the color scheme of Windows 8 but Office not. I hope somone will change this behavior to make a better version of Office.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-02T15:05:46+00:00

    That is because they chose to  DOWNGRADE Office with this version.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-13T16:25:55+00:00

    The options for modifying the color and the contrast are under whelming to say the least.  I used to be a huge fan of Microsoft but they have lost touch with their customers.

    I am also going to wait for the next release and hopefully we might see some improvement

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