Change Background color Theme Office 2013

Microsoft office must be so depressing to work in

wow wonderful colours?( White, Light Gray, and Dark Gray.)

how boring living in domain of White, Light Gray, and Dark Gray.)

we asked for the change to office 10 colours in office 13

how to annoy the public who paid  good money for your pro duct

take no notes of them

if we stopped paying for your product over colours

Microsoft grow up you are not a child you are a company

yes I know White, Light Gray, and Dark Gray.) is burnt into your brain

shame really you have some outstanding products shame

about the colours in office 13 White, Light Gray, and Dark Gray.)

p davison

Actually, I would find it hurmous if I didn't have clients that insist on excel or access files. Google docs has almost caught up to Microsoft, but like so many things, Google does, it always falls shorts; wether it's competing against Apple or Micosoft.

It amazes me how long this thread has been up and how many Microsoft customers have been complaining over the color of their working enivorment and the best they can they can do is add black to Office 365. And, they pat themselves on their backs for doing it.

Yes, it's made my job easer, but come on, with all the themes Windows has had over the years including Win 7 and Win 10; you cannot tell me that those themes could have been added to Office.

I'm also amazed how long it's been going.  And I'm the who started it!

I used to work for MS for 10 years up until the "Great Talent Extinction of 2009".  For all those years it amazed me how much the concept of "We know better" and "We're making life better for people" permeates the corporate culture.  Adding minor enhancements to products and then touting them as "Revolutionary" is beyond comprehension.  I never did "fit" in with that mindset.  Steve Balmer once came to talk to my group (IT Finance) in 2008 and was questioned by one member "Do you worry at all about the Apple 'Mac vs PC' ads on TV?  He replied "When they have more than a 1% market share, talk to me".  Famous last words.

Until it can be shown to the brown-nosing executive management that people will start switching to the competition because it "looks better", there will be no change.  I was once shown a minor bug in Office Word that had existed for over a decade.  It would take about 1 man-day to fix and test.  Yet after 10 years, it was still there.  MS long knew about it but as with the culture "We're too big to concern ourselves with fixing minor bugs. We're too busy working on enhancement to make everyone's life better", it won't ever enter their mindset to address it.

-Dean Bell (former STE for Microsoft, 1999-2009)

Steve

Great insights and thanks for sharing that.  I completely understand what you are saying.  That same arrogance still exists and is evident in the way that they develop products and treat their customers.

I was the biggest Microsoft fan in the 90s and subsequently have become so disillusioned that I avoid Microsoft products as much as I can.

Russ