Office 2013 graveyard colors.

COLOR, Eyestrain, dead; talk about being thrown into the abyss. This is a step back to the first office created by MS; (oh pardon me it had color) what the H... were they thinking. Is it too much to ask for some color, they sure didn't seem to
mind delivering color in Win 8.
Update with COLOR! Some depth, less eyestrain, something. Are they working on an update????
Everybody in the office is complaining, we just installed and the first thing everyone said was where do I change the color. When they saw it was only 3 poorly designed neutral colors, half of them quit using it and went back to their old office.
This is really causing a problem in our office communications. We have lost productivity and continue to hear grumbles.
MS DO SOMETHING!

Hi
Thank you for your feedback about Office 2013, you can go to to send the feedback to Microsoft.
Also we will report your suggestions to the related teams and they willl evaluate on how to improve Office product further.
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Microsoft Office 2013 - Fix for Outlook's color categories??

I am an Administrative Assistant and handle several people's calendars in my office. Not everyone uses the same colors for their categories.
Since installing Office 2013, I can no longer:
1. Change a color category without completely opening an invite. I can now only do this on
MY calendar from the calendar screen, without opening an invite. I used to be able to left click a meeting from the calendar screens select category and change just one occurrence. Now I get this error message:
"The operation failed. The messaging interfaces have returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, restart Outlook"
2. Change a color category for a single invite that is part of a series invite. In other words, It's all or nothing. For instance, yellow is our code for a conference call, so if a meeting series is usually a face-to-face meeting, but one day (bad weather,
etc...), we need to make it a dial-in only, I cannot change the color of that one day only.
Any known solution to these issues?

Hi,
Have you tried recreating the mail profile? Some users have a similar issue were able to fix it by recreating a new Outlook mail profile in Control Panel. To create a new mail profile, go to Control Panel > Mail > Show Profiles and then click Add button
to create a new profile. For detailed information, please refer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918
Please let me know the result.
Regards,
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

Changing Color of MS Office 2013 - From Grey to White

How do I make MS Office - Excel, Word and Outlook on normal white color just a MS 2007.. Please help.
I tried changing it to white from account menu..but it still is the same.

So when you go to Accounts (or Office Account in Outlook) and change it from one of the two Gray options to White, nothing happens?
Screenshots of the 3 color choices are here -
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/2013/changing-office-2013s-color-scheme/ - there aren't colors like in Office 2007.
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center
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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

Office 2013: 10 Best Features You Should Know About

The new Office 2013 has some key updates that, while aren’t quite as dramatic as theWindows 8 from Windows 7change, still have some pretty cool features for mobile and desktop. Office 2013, will ship sometime next year at prices that have not been announced
yet. Check out the top 10 features:
Going Mobile. Microsoft has geared the new software towards a more mobile-friendly audience, allowing users to interact more
efficiently on mobile and tablets including finger and stylus controls that may help to spur Office’s migration to mobile devices. Another decidedly mobile move is Office Home and Student 2013 RT, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, will come
with ARM-based Windows 8 devices including Microsoft Surface .
In The Cloud. Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud service is being positioned to play a key role in Office users’ daily computing
lives. Office 2013 will save your documents to SkyDrive by default, enabling you to access files from multiple devices, including a smartphone and tablet. When you sign into Office from another device, your personalized settings and recently used files
are already there for you. The new Office is available as a cloud-based subscription too. Office 365 is now also available for home-based users as well as businesses. Subscribers will get automatic upgrades, additional SkyDrive storage, multiple installs for
several users, and added perks such as international calls via Skype.
Finger and Stylus. Office 2013 embraces touch and pen input. The touch and stylus features are geared towards smartphones and
tablets, as well as multi-touch laptops. The touch features are the same as users are accustomed to on their smartphones and tablets; swipe a finger across the screen to turn a page, pinch and zoom to read documents, and write with a finger or stylus.
Metro Style. Office 2013 conforms to Microsoft’s “Metro” look that’s pervasive across the software developers latest mobile
apps. The Office Ribbon in Word 2013 has a flatter look than its predecessor in Word 2010.
PDF’s in Word. You can now edit PDF files in Word 2013 (yay!). Simply open a PDF as you would any other document. Word maintains
the formatting of the file which is fully editable. You can insert pictures and videos from online sites such as YouTube and Facebook as well. And readers can watch video clips from inside your document.
Excel. Excel offers some useful upgrades including new templates for budgets, calendars, forms, and reports. The new Quick
Analysis Lens lets you convert data to a chart or table in a couple of steps. Flash Fill recognizes patters in your data and automatically fills cells accordingly. For example: if you want to separate first and last names into separate columns simply begin
typing the first names in a new column, press Ctrl+E and Excel will copy the first names for you.
PowerPoint Has Gained Power. PowerPoint 2013 now sports an updated Start screen with a variety of new themes and color schemes.
The Presenter View now makes it easier to zoom in on a diagram, chart, or other detail that you want to emphasize to the audience. The Navigation Guide lets you switch slides, even move out of sequence, from a grid that you can see but your audience can’t.
Presentations can be worked on from different PCs by colleagues to create a single presentation. Comments are allowed and presentations are saved online by default to SkyDrive.
OneNote. OneNote automatically saves your notes to Skydrive, you don’t have to click “Save”, making your brainstorming sessions
readily available across multiple devices. OneNote 2013 allows you to grab screens and add them to your notebooks.
Skype Has Been Integrated. You can now integrate Skype contacts with Microsoft’s enterprise-oriented Lync communications platform
for calling and instant messaging. Office subscribers get 60 minutes of Skype international calls each month.
Going Social. Office now includes Yammer, a secure and private social network for businesses that Microsoft tentatively acquired.
Yammer integrates with SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics, the company’s line of CRM and enterprise resource planning apps. Office 2013′s People Card tool provides detailed information about your contacts, including their status updates from Facebook and LinkedIn.

Awesome!
Thanks for sharing the greate experience here. This is a good summary of Office 2013 cool features which is definitely useful for those who want to learn about the new Office.
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Is it time yet for Microsoft to "Recall" Office 2013 and provide anyone who has a 2013 license a replacement Office 2010 license?

The interface is terrible and can't be changed. Every application in the suite locks up/crashes nearly constantly on any machine it is used on. The activation process is terrible and wastes hours of any support/IT dept's time. From a 'privacy
standpoint', the software is seemingly criminally intrusive. It is clearly a product that should never have been released and is so far from functional that it can't be repaired by any 'service pack', 'hotfix', or 'patch'. It needs to be completely
scrapped.
The only 'redeeming quality' of this software is that the guy who was in charge of creating it is gone from Microsoft. (Unfortunately, he is now President Obama's appointee for running the attempt at repairing the 'healthcare.gov' website...
out of the frying pan... )
When the software is installed using one profile (domain or machine account) and a different profile tries to use the software, it requires 're-activation' - which often fails because the software believes it has been installed multiple times. (This is particularly
frustrating because it has to be installed by an administrative user, but most of the time, the person who 'uses' the software is not the 'administrator' - so it is almost always being 'installed' using one profile and 'used' using another profile).
The necessary intrusion into privacy created by the requirement of a "Microsoft Account" to use the software is seemingly criminal.
The tracking of, and installation of licenses is absolutely ridiculous.
An example:
Many of my clients have many users and many computers (up to 75 or so).
I could create a "Microsoft User Account" for each 'user', but these machines get moved between users, and the software license is tied to the 'machine' and not to the 'user' so as soon as that happens, the licenses and the users are no longer
in line and become impossible to track.
I could create a "Microsoft User Account" for each 'computer'... and I can't even count the ways this would be a nightmare to try to track.
I actually did that up front for one client, and created Exchange email boxes for each computer so that "prove you are really you" emails from Microsoft could be received managed, and responded to, and passed out second usernames and passwords
to all of the users so they could "log-in" to their Office 2013 software, and created a database of the 'computer usernames and passwords' so I could track this... unfortunately, this confused the users (as it rightfully should) so they would change
the passwords for their computer's 'Microsoft User Account' thus locking me out and invalidating my database, ... and... CLUSTERF#%K!!!
As a 'best - worst case', I have had to create a single 'Microsoft User Account" for each of my clients' businesses so I can install and activate Office 2013 products. This is a whole new set of "Awesome Stupidity".
Now, I can put a new computer into a client's office and install their new license key for their oem Office 2013, and it shows up in the 'business's Microsoft User Account'. Then when I give the machine to the user, I get to 're-activate' the software
(hoping that it doesn't tell me to piss-off - which happens about 40% of the time. This is a process that can only be described as a "feat of engineering created by a group of monkeys whose former jobs included 'janitor at MAD magazine headquarters'
or 'beer-pong referee').
It starts with two hours of pressing phone buttons and ultimately talking to someone who tells me "yeah, nothin' I can do about that I'm just here for product activation" (which, incidentally, is done by machine until you pass through MS's ridiculous
labyrinth of repetitious keystroking until the machine is convinced you are just too stupid to punch in the right numbers and allows you to talk to a person... who then asks you for the exact same set of numbers and repeats back the exact same responding set
of numbers and acts dumbfounded when it still doesn't work - since it didn't work the first six times you punched or said it into the phone) followed by "I need to send you to the support group... but because it's 6:30 pm (in a process you started at
3:00pm) they are gone for the day and you'll have to call back on Monday morning"
At some point in the process, you get to log into the "Microsoft user account" and 'roll the roulette wheel of stupidity' by trying to activate the right software from a list of 40 different lines that all say "Microsoft Office 2013 Home and
Business oem", but none give any indicator or differentiating factor like for instance: license key, date installed, license key last 4 digits, mother's maiden name, phase of moon when software was first activated, color or type of blood of the user's
paperboy's dog's previous owner... NOTHING... RANDOM FREAKING STAB IN THE DARK - pick one, any one, hope its the license you are trying to install onto this machine, 'cause if not, you very well may kill the product on some other machine.
So through the process, the lucky support staff person gets' to waste roughly an hour and a half on average for every Microsoft Office 2013 installation. I have actually had to start telling my clients that they are going to likely have to pay an extra
$100 or so per machine in order to get their new Microsoft Office software which comes on their new computer activated - that number tends to work out roughly accurately - except that it is a terrible way of trying to 'please a client'.
Oh,... and did I mention... "THE SOFTWARE CONSISTANTLY FAILS"!?!
A client tries to open a document that they have been using for 8 years and Excel doesn't say "Hey, I don't know how to deal with some element of the file that you put in here using Excel 2003, or Office 2010 (both products, by the way, which worked
great) - no... instead,... it crashes. Doesn't really do any damage to the file it choked on, but the work you'd been doing on three other files which you also had open,... yeah,... that work is gone.
Yeah,.... over time, I have developed a pretty consistent spiel for client's needing new computers that goes over how absolutely terrible Office 2013 is, and explains that our options are further limited by Microsoft's yanking of all Office 2010 or previous
products from market availability, and explaining the merits of both LibreOffice and OpenOffice, as well as their drawbacks. I also have a strangely static response explaining how "larger companies are not burdened by these issues because they are
able to use MOPL which allows them to downgrade their productivity software to Office 2010 so they can continue to function happily, but this is really not a cost effective solution for smaller companies who primarily buy oem Office products with their replacement
computers".
Unfortunately, many clients still decide they want to go with Office 2013 because they apparently believe "it really can't be that bad". The value in my 'presale descriptions' are only really realized when they come back to me a week, two
weeks, or up to a month after the new machine is in place and say "wow,... you were right". The place I am left open for any further problems is when I don't impress upon them beforehand just HOW BAD OFFICE 2013 REALLY IS. In that case,
they still come back to me as though I have done something wrong foe selling them this piece of $#!% software and I have to remind them of our previous discussions.
Strangely, far too few heed the warnings and buy the software anyway - but the discussion has saved many clients the costs of Microsoft Project, because the discussion of LibreOffice and OpenOffice nearly always leads to at least a small philosophical conversation
about 'Open Source Software' in general, and my absolute favorite descriptive analogy in that discussion is to compare Microsoft Project at $600 v. ProjectLibre at $0 - and then further describe the costs of licensing and implementing the associated back-end
server solutions, etc.
This is a saving grace for me, because even though the client has been saddled with Office 2013, they have also saved substantially on Project and it is a rare (but granted, not absolutely absent) occasion that ProjectLibre is lacking some feature or function
that they actually need or want to use - and on those occasions, finding out has cost them absolutely nothing in software purchases.
Its not surprising, I suppose, that clients have grown to accept Office as a required 'cost', but still choke heavily on the price-tag of Project every time they have to buy it. The interesting thing to watch over the coming couple of years will be
'how many businesses stop accepting MS Office as a 'required cost' due to the failing of the software itself and the fact that most are being burned, at least once, by purchasing the software "against technical advice" and are learning, merely by
virtue of HOW BAD Office is, that there are other options out there that both cost less and work better... I mean,... LOTS BETTER.
How many businesses that are used to accepting the cost of Microsoft Office as a cost of doing business will be moved over to open source options and satisfied by them by the time Microsoft releases its next version - which will, presumably work - such that
they will no longer justify the cost of Microsoft's offering even if it is 'superior' to the open source offerings because the open source offerings are plenty sufficient and include a price tag of $0 and an installation/implementation time that is much, much
shorter than Microsoft's offering.
If Microsoft doesn't make some dramatic reparations, and do it soon, I expect their market share will be reduced in this area by a very significant margin.
I am suggesting either a 'Complete Recall' of Office 2013 including an 'uninstall 2013/install 2010' process driven by the automatic update engine, or at the very least, a free and easy downgrade rights offering for anybody who has already purchased 2013
and anyone who purchases it between now and the time the next "functional product" is released.

I understand the inconvenience you are experiencing when working with Office 2013.
If you have any feedback about Office 2013 product, click the and submit to Microsoft.
Microsoft will decide how to fix the problem for all customers.
For the activation mechanism, it intends to protect customers of their rights and interests.
For a retail version of Office, if it was purchased with a disk, Microsoft account is not necessary during the installation.
For volume license of Office, refer to the following link to deploy Office suites can be much efficient:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178982.aspx
For the problem Office 2013 keep crashing, check the following link to check:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2813143/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2758592/en-us
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Office 2013 and MS Server 2008 R2

I see an increasingly number of people having trouble with office 2012 running on 2008 R2 RDS servers, but i still am yet to find any good solution from Microsoft themselves.
We now have two customers with 2008 R2 RDS servers and Office 2013, where users are reporting that Outlook is slow when opening messages, typing messages, searching in the mailbox and sometimes everything also freezes for a few seconds if they are working
with an Office application. Similar problems are also happening with Word and Excel.
We have tried all the usual tweaks so far:
Ajusting RDP-settings to 16-bit color and no animations.
Disabling hardware acceleration for Office.
Disabling animations reg-key.
The servers are all virtual, running on vmware on some of the latest hardware from dell, so resource-wise there should be no problem. Increasing memory and CPU is not helping at all anyway.
The customer we have that are running RDS on 2012 and 2012 R2 also had this problem, but adjusting the visual effects solved all problems for these. But not for those on 2008 R2.
I am stuck at the moment, and the frustration is rising at my customers. Does anyone actually have anything that solved this problem for them? Or do we actually have to roll back to Office 2010 (where we had no problems)?

Hi,
For Office 2013 there should not be any concerns since it is windows installer based and things will be handled automatically. For the other software you could simply put the session in install mode in every case. For the servers/workstations
where install mode doesn't apply the change user /install and change user /execute will simply fail without any harmful effects.
You may check whether or not the machine is a terminal server using WMI, for example:
wmic /namespace:\\root\CIMV2\TerminalServices PATH Win32_TerminalServiceSetting Get TerminalServerMode
0 = Remote Administration mode (not a RDSH/TS)
1 = Application Server mode (aka RDSH/Terminal server)
-TP
When I run the command from the command line, it works, but when I try it in a "IF" statement, nothing happens. I am I doing something wrong using the wmic code in the IF statement?

Printer driver hangs when printing with Office 2013/Windows 8 64 bit

Printer: HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi
Printer Driver: V5.1 (up to date, downloaded from HP support website) or Generic V5.6
OS: Windows 8 Professional 64bit
When I try to print a certain Excel document with Excel 2013 and printer driver V5.1, the program hangs and needs to be terminated via task manager. This happens always with the same document, but not with all documents. The program hangs also when opening the print preview for the same document.
The same document prints fine with the generic printer driver V5.6 and with the driver that comes with Windows 8.
The same document prints fine with driver V5.1 under Windows 7 and Office 2010. The combination Windows 7/Office 2013 was not tested. The combination Windows 8/Office 2010 was also not tested.
When I try to print an empty document with Word 2013 and generic printer driver V5.6, the program hangs and needs to be terminated via task manager.
My conclusion is that the HP printer drivers have a problem with either Windows 8 or Office 2013 or a combination of both.
The printer driver that comes with Windows 8 and is automatically installed is useful as a temporary workaround, but it lacks certain options, e.g. manual duplex.
On request, I am ready to send the Excel document by e-mail for verification of the problem.
Any help or suggestions will be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Uli
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From what you describe you are having issues printing from MS Office. Have you had trouble printing from other resources on your computer (e.g. from the internet or another program)? The first thing I am going to suggest is that we start by uninstalling and reinstalling the printer from the resources available online.
First if you use a USB cord, make sure to remove it (this is important). Do not plug it back in until the software directs you to. Then go through the Devices and Printers, Programs and Features and Device Manager folders and insure that all copies, files, and programs related to the printer are removed. Then as directed, restart the computer.
In the START menu type "%temp%" and press ENTER. Here I want you to press Ctrl+A and hit DELETE. Some of the files will not allow you to delete them, skip those files and delete the majority that allows it.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNameId=3562006&lang=en&cc=us...
Install that and let me know the result!
Have a great day!

Office 2013 templates Group Policies

There is a GPO related to Enterprise template locations in Office 2013 that is not clear at all and poorly documented. The path to the GPO is:
MS Office 2013 > Shared Paths > Enterprise templates path
What is the purpose and how this path can be used? What is the difference between using this GPO and the following GPOs that I have been using in the past:
MS Office 2013 > Shared Paths > Workgroup templates path
MS Office 2013 > Shared Paths > User templates path
PowerPoint 2013/Word 2013 > Miscellaneous > Personal templates path for PPT or Word
Any information will be greatly appreciated.

Hi Petrika,
See the following;
This policy will set the following regkey:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General]
"CorporateTemplates" (REG_SZ or REG_EXPAND_SZ)
You can however also deploy this setting as normal user preference (not as policy), e.g.:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General]
"CorporateTemplates"="\\server\share\corporatethemes"
We are using "Templates" for the regkey and policy description which is somewhat misleading. What we really mean is "Corporate Design Theme Templates" for PowerPoint.
A "Theme" basically contains the following design elements:
• Font
• Colors
• Styles/Effects
Office contains several different design themes out of the box but it is possible to define your own design themes for personal use or for corporate use. This policy targets the corporate use of such themes.
Personal themes are typically stored in the user profile under "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes".
You can store corporate templates somewhere on a file share and deploy a policy so PowerPoint will always enumerate these themes when displaying them in the themes gallery.
In order to visualize this feature please just try the following:
1. Open the "Design" Tab in PowerPoint and expand the Themes Gallery:
2. You will see a list of Themes and where they are coming from. Currently we see the design in this presentation, maybe custom themes if you once saved your own theme(s) and the Office native themes:
3. Now click on "Save Current Theme…" and save the current theme as "MyTestTheme" to a file share (e.g.
\\server\share\corporatethemes)
Now set a policy or simply set the following regkey in order to load corporate themes from this file share:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General]
"CorporateTemplates"="\\server\share\corporatethemes"
4. Reboot PowerPoint so this setting takes effect
5. Look into the used file share. It now contains a subfolder "Document Themes" with a thmx file (this is your theme definition) and three subfolders where settings for your design colors, fonts and effects are stored:
6. Now let's look again into PowerPoints's style gallery in the Design tab. This time you see one category more in the list of available themes: You see your corporate theme that you just saved in step 3.
7. Sometimes customers do not want the native themes to be displayed but only the corporate themes. This should make it more likely that users are using only corporate themes and not other themes when creating new presentations.
In this case you can set the following regkey or policy key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\PowerPoint\Options]
"ThemesGalleryShowCorporateOnly"=Dword:0x00000001
8. If you restart PowerPoint you now see only the default Office-Theme but all other pre-installed office themes are not listed any more
Ok, so bottom line is that you can design your own corporate themes in Office 2013. For PowerPoint (where these themes are mainly used and where corporate design guides are often used) you can specify a central file share where you store your own corporate
design themes. Users will get these themes listed in the design gallery if you are using the "Enterprise Templates" policy.
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Don't use Backstage option in Office 2013

The new backstage view in Office 2010 was great for a business environment. It showed a long list of recent workbooks and recent folders and so, even working on many workbooks, there was a very good chance that one, or at worst two, clicks would get
me to the workbook I needed to work on.
In 2013 this is a whole lot harder as you only see either recent workbooks or recent folders and the lists take up more space so fewer files/folders are visible. Also Skydrive, which I doubt if many businesses would use, is far too prominent and cannot
be removed (?) The list of recent files in the menu bar is too narrow so it is often not possible to distinguish between files with similar names without hovering over and waiting!
Anyway, there is an option, (File/Options/Save) "Don't show the Backstage when opening or saving files". I have tried this option in Word and Excel and it doesn't seem to make any difference, at all. Am I missing something?
Oh BTW as IT manager I am recommending that we do not move to Office 2013. Backstage and color theme are the killers.

1st, well, I just counted the number of the Recent Workbooks on Office 2010 and Office 2013, and the number of Office 2010 is 3 more than Office 2013. When Office 2010 has 21 recent workbooks, Office 2013 has 18 on my 19" screen (1280*1024 resolution).
If that matters, try click the Send a Frown button in any Office applications to send your feedback to the Product team, :)
2nd, the width of the Recent Workbooks in Office 2013 are almost the same as Office 2010, I mean, if you can see the full name in Office 2010, you should also be able to see the full name in Office 2013.
From the above, it seems you might have mixed up the Start screen with the Recent Workbooks menu (which, BTW, also shows 16 recent workbooks).
To turn off the Start screen, uncheck the option "Show the Start screen when this application starts" in Excel or other Office applications.
3rd, the option "Don't show the Backstage when opening or saving files" does make a difference, try figure it out by compare the save or open behavior between turn it on and off.
4th, for the "color theme" issue, now we have "White", "Light Gray" and "Dark Gray", and our product team is also aware of the feedback from our cutomers, let's hope we can get more themes from the future release.
5th, for the SkyDrive, yes, I haven't found any option to remove it. Unless you are interested in creating your own customized backstage view. If so, I'd suggest you to visit the Office for Developers forums for further discussion:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/officedev
Max Meng
TechNet Community Support

Start Screen Microsoft Office 2013 tiles are completely empty

This is very weird. It started with Outlook and every few weeks another one loses its values. The tiles are colored boxes but have no text or icon in them. There is nothing to tell me which tile is Outlook, Word, OneNote, Excel or Lync.
InfoPath Designer and Filler still show title and icon as well as Access and Publisher. Here is a screen shot:
Any idea on how to fix this? I've tried an Office 2013 repair. I don't want to uninstall/reinstall Office as I have a lot of email in Outlook and a custom folder hierarchy filled with sorted mail.
Help!
Dave Franklyn
Learn it, earn it, do it!

I'm not sure there is a SP1 for Windows 8.1, Christophe.
Learn it, earn it, do it!
SP1 for Office2013, not for Windows.
SP1 for Office2013, when installed from microsoftupdate, fixed the same problem for me (empty/blank tile for Outlook2013)
Don
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Changing background theme on Office 2013 - too white or 2 shades of grey.

Is there a way to choose a color other than white, light grey, or dark grey as a background scheme for MS Office 2013?
If not, when will there be an update to address this issue?

They'll help you over here.
Office 2013 forums on Microsoft Answers
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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Ribbon Office 2013

Hello! I am using the following code for my program. I want it to look like Office 2013, you should only add the reference to the project that comes with WPF 4.5 and is System.Windows.Controls.Ribbon. I have a problem, when I select one tab, outline, not completed.
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen">
<Window.Resources>
<Style TargetType="Ribbon">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="White"/>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Black"/>


</Style>
<Style TargetType="RibbonGroup">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent"/>

</Style>
<Style TargetType="RibbonTabHeader">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="White"/>
<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="Transparent"/>
<Setter Property="FontSize" Value="13"/>
<Setter Property="Padding" Value="15,2,15,2"/>
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="1,1,1,5"/>
<Setter Property="Margin" Value="1,0,1,0"/>
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="RibbonTabHeader">
<ControlTemplate.Resources>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="CheckedBackground" Color="#FFF5F6F7"/>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="CheckedBorderBrush" Color="#FFDBDCDD"/>

</ControlTemplate.Resources>
<Border Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}">
<ContentPresenter Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" RecognizesAccessKey="True"/>
</Border>
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsRibbonTabSelected" Value="True">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="{DynamicResource CheckedBackground}"/>

<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="#FFB9C9DA"/>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Blue"/>
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<RibbonApplicationMenuItem Width="Auto" Header="Cerrar sesión..." ImageSource="Imágenes/Usuario.png"/>
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</Ribbon>
</Grid>
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Attached 2 images, the first is what I get done, the other is what I would like.

Try this template: https://gist.github.com/drayde/75526b570a266f5f8f38
And I would suggest you trying this control: https://github.com/fluentribbon/Fluent.Ribbon
Best Regards,
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