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

• Marked as answer by Melon Chen CHNMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:16 AM

What good is adding functionality, without usability?  I've waited almost a 6 month reading through all the threads, but it seems it's not going to be updated.

For being such a large company with such a large user base, I suppose Microsoft feels it can disregard the views of its product users.  I was about recommend an upgrade of our company office suite, but after trying out for a month I'm sure as hell not going to let it happen.

I don't think I can bear that many people cussing the idiot that recommended its use.

The End.

Your answer is a cop out. Most of your customers are complaining about the colors. I as many others need the opportunity to customize as "we" see fit, not as MS dictates to us. I would NEVER have gotten Office 2013 if had been aware of this fact.

I'm a Microsoft user, and I have an idea. Design your software so we can easily see what is on the screen, rather than on someone's idea of the coming thing in avant-garde artistic design standards.

The color failure of Office 365 is staggering, and it means that I will continue using the very well designed and colored Office 2010 until you return the product to the world of color. The many hundreds of comments on the web to this affect should alert you to remedy this simple problem as soon as possible.

If your developers are basing their products on "user requirements" and "striving to capture Microsoft Users' ideas" they obviously aren't reading these posts.

I get migraines triggered by intense light and I can only use your Office products (which I need to use all day long for my job) for about 3 hours before I get a migraine.

Adding color options isn't going to affect the people that actually like light drab, medium drab, and slightly darker drab.  If there are any of those people.  Anywhere.

You've been saying you're working on this since the product first came out.  Are you ever going to actually listen to your customers?

• Edited by sfest Tuesday, December 23, 2014 9:17 PM

I agree i had to turn the brightness on my monitors down because it gave me eye strain.  So wish there were other color options.

I SO regret purchasing Office 2013. There were plenty of changes from Office 2003 I had been using, hate the ribbons! Change is not necessarily for the better! But the lack of color choice and visual contrast seems punitive! What's next, a return to the 1940s and black and white TV? This is one of the biggest software goofs I've seen. Even Dorothy (W of Oz) was thrilled to awake to living color after B&W Kansas! Staring at a computer screen is visually fatiguing under most any circumstances but the gray-out is miserable.

Windows 8 is challenging enough for this 60y/o+ WindowsXP veteran but add Office 2013's beyond bland interface and you have a prescription for workplace snoozing. If there is no fix for 2013 I won't spend a cent on the next version and will instead try Office 2010.

Dear God! I was just 'upgraded' from 2010 to 2013. What a design disaster. If I could be downgraded to 2010 just so my eyes don't bleed from the snow-blindness I would.  Make dark themes available.

I REALLY NEED A DARKER COLOR SCHEME.  THE DARK GRAY IS NOT WORKING.  I AM A OLDER PERSON (69) AND HAVING TROUBLE VIEWING ANY OF MY PRODUCTS. WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE FOR EASYER READING AND WRITING.