Eye strain is prevalent with our office on the new stuff. I know that the theme options were not in the preview. They don't turn in at sharp angles! Never use the laptop for anything other than getting on remote now. Microsoft could use Walt Disney right about now. I have three monitors and excel s-sheets open, email and word, the usual thing and I get a screen of utter dullness.
This is a horrible screen, impossible for us older execs to read, absolutely not worth the powder to blow it up… we just got suckerpunched with it platform-wide, and I can't even read my stinking email — not enough contrast. Seems to have something to do with a View Selection as the regkey indicates go figure. Anyone else think Mac is now seriously worth considering as mainstream desktop? Then, you go back into Metro. A couple liked the all white and gray options. It will be some benign setting, or color hash.
They spend their time revamping what they have and there is no real product innovation. What a stupid way to go back in time 30 years just to annoy the majority of the loyal users, plain idiocy. I think they have spent a fair amount of time on Access, there are lots of differences including a lot of feature removals, haven't spent enough time fiddling with it to say whether it's better or worse, I suppose it depends on what features you use. Those people who are already fascinated by its beauty will locate these images much valuable. What We DoOur audience includes students, professionals and amateur writers who are looking into improving their English writing skills. Also the Outlook icon is a bad colour, blue has always been for Word and Word 2013 still has a blue icon, changing the colour for the Outlook icon to blue is bad, causes confusion. If I use 100%, Office 2013 will burn my eyes in 15 seconds.
In my opinion, I seem to be able to display about 10% less rows of data on the same screen real estate in Office 2013 as I did in Office 2010. All you need to do is click on the quad-colored icon in the tool bar. Here's an example of Word in Dark Mode. I understand that the trend is to write in tiny light grey letters on brigth white background all over the internet but Outlook is a tool that many people must use all day long every day. This is where customizations and options empowering every user to mold the interface up to his or her needs, come in handy. So, read on after the jump, and find out how to give your Office 2013 utilities a personal touch! However, who in the hell opens a spreadsheet with 5,000 to 10,000 rows on a cell phone? A writer needs something comfortable to look at. Try this as an experiment: Open two basic windows, say word and excel side by side.
And that means we aren't getting security updates, etc. Click the File menu from the ribbon interface and select Options to access the Word Options window. I mean person, has decided is Design. In Office 2013, the scrollbar is white and the scrollbar background is gray--and this dissonance is only made more pronounced by the gray themes. The only way I can tell is to switch to some non-Office app Firefox, for instance , then back. I mean Outlook was just fine…if they wanted to improve it, make the changes work with tablet versions only…Getting rid of the Start Menu…that ought to make a few million users happy! I've been asked to repurchase old software to relieve the eyes.
All you need are the. Hi, The theme of Office Professional Plus 2013 is by design,. The white background is still a bit much, but this is far better. This color is nowhere to be found in the 3 general Outlook themes. Take a Valium, smoke a joint. I recommend against anyone using Office 2013 until this issue is addressed.
If you are an Office 365 subscriber,. Maybe it's already in the comments above, but I'll add this: it's impossible to tell whether Outlook or, I suppose, any other MsOffice app is in focus any more. To get a theme, click Download,. I can't tell you how much happier I am to be back and running Outlook 2010. This strategy of continually ignoring their users keeps depressing their market share. Pages, email messages, and spreadsheet backgrounds are still white regardless of theme selection. I am going to have to keep my Outlook very minimized on my desktop I hate this so much.
I searched for all the. The point of these color choices is entirely functional, namely to be allow me to read and process information more quickly and with less eye strain. So if we are lucky, maybe they are still listening and will add a few more. That's an actual problem that needs to be addressed. Suffice it to say that I disagree with those sentiments. Probably other side effects will come up the next days.
Thanks for the tips- They helped a little; I figure it's as good as it's going to get. Apparently they did no focus groups. Know about the latest self-organization tools and apps for poets, bloggers, researchers, story writers and business analysts. With those themes, it can be momentarily, almost subconsciously, confusing sometimes as to where the scrollbar is and where the scrollbar background is when you're used to the way every other program works. Windows 10 customers can now get Desktop Themes from Microsoft Store. I just spent a few hours uninstalling Office 2013 and re-installing Office 2010 - and resetting up my e-mail and such.
I succeeded in changing the background color of the inbox message list. Search the internet for contrast sensitivity and aging. I don't quite get the complaints about headaches and so on, it's boring yes but I don't understand how a really simple colour scheme would cause eye strain. There seems to be so many choices out there that we don't need more arguments from our user base over color and how things look on the screen. If this is the direction Microsoft is going, we will likely look at Google Apps.