2013 office color scheme

I just bought 2013 office. I have to say I really was surprised on the color scheme options. It seems the developers didn't even try to make a more user friendly background. People like me that where glasses have a hard enough time with glare. I have an
expensive monitor to help with reading emails. Then when I loaded office I just couldn't believe that's what they gave us. I have been using office since the beginning and true in the early versions it was generic with little to no options. Programs are supposed
to improve over time not go backwards. If I would have know the screen would have been that bad I would not have upgraded.
Somebody make a fix not just develop something else to sell us.

Hi William,
Sorry for the inconvenience caused. We have heard such report about Office 2013 Theme for several times, and we have submitted a feedback through the internal way. It would be appreciated if you can send your
suggestions and feedback to our product team via:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-US/suggestions.aspx
Thank you for your understanding and support.
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support
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Color scheme Office 2013

When will a new color scheme come out? I'm going crazy with these ultra bright options!

Hi,
I'm so sorry if the design of the products brings you any inconvenience, but I haven't heard any news about adding new colors to Office 2013.
It's true the fact is we only have White, Light Gray and Dark Gray in Office 2013, which is complained about by some of our customers. But please be assured that any improvements in the product are based on users' requirements. Our developers strive
to capture Microsoft users' ideas and are working hard to create a more powerful and easy-to-use product.
Thank you for focusing on our products, let's look forward to the further versions.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

Publisher 2013 Office Theme

I purchased a desktop workstation with Office 2013 basic on it (no Publisher or Access). I then later purchased Publisher 2013 as an add-on. For some reason when I change the color scheme, it has no affect in Publisher as it is always white regardless
if I change it to light gray or dark gray.

Hi,
You have mentioned you installed Office 2013 and Publisher 2013 separately, in this scenario, the changes about the Office Theme in Office 2013(Word, Excel, etc) won't be reflected on Publisher 2013, since the Publisher 2013 is a standalone version.
When we browse to Control Panel -> Programs and Features, we should find two separate entries for Office 2013 and Publisher 2013, this also implies they are basically "not connected".
The only way to change the theme of Publisher, is to change it in Publisher itself: Open Publisher ->
Options -> General -> Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office ->
Office Theme.
This also applies to other standalone versions of Office Products, such as Visio, Project.
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Import color schemes to Excel 2010

Hi, Everyone
I really need your help for Excel 2010.
For excel 2003, when I import color scheme from another excel: on the menu bar>tools>options>color
tab in the "copy color from" box, click the down arrow and select the workbook which contains the color schemes
Then I can find and use the color imported.
For 2010, Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Excel Options. Click on Save.
Under 'Preserve Visual Appearance of the workbook'
Click on Colors
Click on 'dropdown box' of Copy Colors from and select the file I want to copy the colors from and click OK.
Click OK to close the Excel Options dialog box.
In Excel 2010, I cann't find the color imported in the color palette, nor use it of cause.
If you have any idea, please don't hesitate put your answers, I really need the solution for it. Thanks in advanced
Jun
Jun LOU

Hi,
I tried the following and it worked!
To copy your existing colour palette to a document or template in Excel 2010:
<dir>
Open the file (containing the existing colour palette to copy) with version Excel 2010
Go to tab "Page Layout"
Click on the Icon "Themes" (Themes menu)
Go to the bottom page and click "Save current Theme..."
Give a name with extension *.thmx (e.g. "mycolours.thmx")
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For new documents the recommendation is to create a workbook or a template.
</dir>

Color Schemes delivered with Outlook are terrible

Sorry, I don't know of a nice way to say it, but the as-delivered color schemes for Outlook 2010 are horrid.
All 3 of the colors are very difficult to read. What happened to the nice legible look of the demo? Is there a way to have button outlines for that good old "organized" look, or is the wave of the future this "floaty" look? I sure hope not. This looks look
like it was lifted from a Mac.
Sorry to sound so negative, but this just seems like a big step backwards.
If anyone has something helpful I would appreciate it, but I'm guessing the answer is that this is just how it is.

The new color schemes in Office 2010 are awfull.
The lack
of transperans
leads
to people
with
visual disabilities,
have
great difficulty
using the program.
I myself am
a web designer,
who
for years
has worked
with color schemes
on websites
and
it is therefore
incomprehensible, that
a company
like Microsoft,
does not
take into account
these
issues.
I
have been happy
to Microsoft's
software packages
for
many years,
but
I think it´s
the time
for
me to
switch
to Apple.
Their
design line
is
definitely more
user friendly
and timely.

Can anything be done to change the white on grey color scheme in Bookmarks?

I just upgraded my Mac Book Pro to OS X Version 10.9.1. I was horrified when I got a look at what Apple has done to Safari! I have macular degeneration - which means that my eyesight is slowly fading away. Bookmarks was especially difficult because all of the bookmrks are shown with a white on grey color scheme. And when the "new" Apple color schemes are not white on grey - they are grey on white. I simply can NOT see anything which is white on grey. OR white on ANY light color. In order to be able to see anything, I need to have contrast. For example, as I type on this page, the scroll bar is grey on white. It has become almost impossible for me to find the scroll bar on most pages. Previously, my scroll bars where usually bright blue. I can see bright blue on white - but NOT grey on white. I can read white letters on BRIGHT or DARK Blue -but NOT light blue.
Apple has made SO many strides in makes computers accessable to those of us who have no other choice except to deal with disabilities! Can ANYTHING be done to change the white on grey color scheme which Apple has adopted throughout its system?
Now, in order to use my Bookmarks, I have to go to my Edit Bookmarks page. Even that solutation is not all that helplful, because the lettering on the Edit Bookmarks page is so small.
Also - I discovered that the "new" Mail pages had the same problem. For the most part, the "innovations" in mail make all of the pages too busy for me to be able to sort my mail or keep track of it in any way. I had to choose to return to the "classic" mail option to be able to get a reasonable facsimile of being able to handle my E mail accounts!
And, of course, once again, the scroll bar on my mail accounts is also grey on white - so it takes a lot of searching for me to just find the scroll bar when I need to scroll down in an E mail!
ALSO - I was equally horrified when I discovered that the Upgrade to Version 10.9.1 made it impossible for me to visit some of my favorite music pages - most of which use MIDI files! I can no longer hear any of my favorite MIDI music pages! I TUNES, of course, is in love with people like Lady Gaga - the type of performers - and performances - which have no relevance to older Americans.
I do volunteer work at a local Assisted Living facility and one of the greatest advances we have been able to make with Alzheimers patients is the way in which Senior Citizens respond to music from their time period. Unfortunately, most of the music which senior citizens prefer to listen to is music which has been preserved in MIDI pages. A few weeks before I "upgraded" my Mac Book Pro - I could take my computer over to the local Assisted Living Facility and play music from Hymn Time's Cyberhymnal or the Angelwinks tunes - but I can NO longer do that with the current Apple "upgrade" in version 10.9.1 - because the music from those MIDI pages can no longer be heard by anyone! The page comes up and you can see the writing - but no one can hear any of the music. We understand that a group in Switzerland has been working on an APP for I Phones which DOES make MIDI files accessable - so surely it should be possible to provide a way for Version 10.9.1 users to listen to MIDI files, such as those provided by Hymn Time's Cyber Hymnal or by Angelwinks!
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Hi Grandma,
18 point Helvetica Bold .
There is an Apple Support Community called Vision:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/accessibility/vision?view=discussions
I shall ask the Moderators (Hosts) to move your discussion to that forum.
Kind regards,
Ian.

App-V Office 2013/Office 365?

Hi,
In order to App-v Office 2013, apparently you need Office 365 ProPlus? How to get it, we do have Office 2013 ProPlus but that's not sufficient? Don't get what the difference is actually.
Note: we don't want to use Office 2013 click-n-run.
J.
Jan Hoedt
Note: the click-n-run doesn't give the option to mention you Exchange server, the junk folder used in Outlook etc., that's what we really need (just as the setup.exe /admin option in Office.

The difference between Office 365 ProPlus and Office Professional Plus 2013 is licensing only as the text you've quoted shows and as Rory has provided details on as well.
This is separate from how you deploy Office. With either Office 365 or Office 2013 you can choose to use a standard installation or the Office Deployment Tool (App-V). Office 365 also provides the Click-to-Run version which you download from the Office 365
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If you have licensed Office 365, but want to use the Volume License media, you may have to purchase the media separately (which is really a download from the Volume License site). You may be required to purchase the minimum of 5 VL licenses to get access
to the media, but check with a Microsoft licensing expert for clarification.
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See these articles for more info:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2772509 (Rory has already posted this one)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2915745
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Project Pro 2013 and syncing with SharePoint Online 2013 (Office 365)

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I am experiencing some challenges with a Project Pro master project file and syncing to SharePoint 2013 (Office 365).
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Hi Hema
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