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@Vestfrost - I presume you are referring to the general <u>scheme</u> (i.e., toolbars, workbooks, etc.) and not Page Layout themes. &nbsp;This appears to be a common complaint concerning Office 2013.<br />
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At present, MS only provides three options: White, Light Gray and Dark Gray. &nbsp;You can change which of these is being used by going to File &gt;&nbsp;Options &gt;&nbsp;General &gt;&nbsp;Office Theme drop-down. &nbsp;There doesn't appear to be any plans by MS to offer other color schemes beyond a boilerplate &quot;thank you for your feedback/we are evaluating user preferences&quot; response.<br />
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I did find an interesting link concerning attempts to identify and hack the default color schemes, but it doesn't appear that the author has finalized as yet (see the October 7th post in the &quot;Notes&quot; section). &nbsp;It might be worthwhile to keep an eye on this:<br />
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<a href="http://officethemehacker.wordpress.com/category/office-2013-color-schemes/" rel="ugc">Office 2013 Theme Hack</a><br />
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(This link takes you to OfficeThemHacker.WordPress<wbr />.com. &nbsp;Specifically, it shows a proposed theme hack for Office 2013 to a dark purple theme. &nbsp;At present, it is merely a concept, but appears that work is actively being progressed by the author.)
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@Vestfrost - I presume you are referring to the general scheme (i.e., toolbars, workbooks, etc.) and not Page Layout themes.  This appears to be a common complaint concerning Office 2013.

At present, MS only provides three options: White, Light Gray and Dark Gray.  You can change which of these is being used by going to File > Options > General > Office Theme drop-down.  There doesn't appear to be any plans by MS to offer other color schemes beyond a boilerplate "thank you for your feedback/we are evaluating user preferences" response.

I did find an interesting link concerning attempts to identify and hack the default color schemes, but it doesn't appear that the author has finalized as yet (see the October 7th post in the "Notes" section).  It might be worthwhile to keep an eye on this:

Office 2013 Theme Hack [http://officethemehacker.wordpress.com/category/office-2013-color-schemes/]

(This link takes you to OfficeThemHacker.WordPress.com.  Specifically, it shows a proposed theme hack for Office 2013 to a dark purple theme.  At present, it is merely a concept, but appears that work is actively being progressed by the author.)

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Hi,<br />
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Is it possible to change the default color theme in Excel and if it is, how do I do it?
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Hi,

Is it possible to change the default color theme in Excel and if it is, how do I do it?

Excel 2013 - Change default theme

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Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.

Microsoft Office

An office suite is a collection of bundled productivity software (a software suite) intended to be used by knowledge workers. The components are generally distributed together, have a consistent user interface and usually can interact with each other, sometimes in ways that the operating system would not normally allow. Most contain a word processor, a spreadsheet, an email client and presentation software; some might contain a database program. Several office suites have their own topics: Microsoft Office, Office 365, LibreOffice (also known as OpenOffice), Lotus IBM and Google Apps.