WB8 vs Office 2013

Can it be skinned?

After years of being away I came back to try out the latest Windowsblinds specifically to skin Office 2013 apps.

No Joy.  I guess it isn't possible to do anything with that dreadful look in Office 2013? </sigh>  :(

 

B

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We all hate the ribbon.  :(

Reply #2 Top

Ha!  I've made my peace with the ribbon, but the new flat monochrome title bar... painful.  (Wait! Are you saying that the title bar is now part of the ribbon?!)

When my machine was strained for resources while working on a massive spreadsheet a few days ago, I noticed the Win 7 Aero titlebar would show through the new flat title bar.  That gave me a glimmer of hope that WB would be able to override it.  

Alas... we appear to be stuck with no indication of window focus, and washed out colors that provide little contrast for click-targets, and very little visual appeal.

Thanks for the quick response,

Brian

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From what I see of 2013 it looks a lot more unusable than 2010.

2010 is bad enough, everything you do is a clickfest.

Gone are the days when you could click a button for a new document or to print, it's all click, click, click, and for printing, "yes, I do want to enable effin' printing"

Since we updated to 2010 at work some jobs take me twice as long :( Productivity is critical for someone who works in finance and uses Excel all day.

Oh, you can modify your toolbar - at home. At work the toolbar reverts to basic everytime you logon (or at least it does where I work).

At home I'm sticking to Office XP.

Rant over...

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Quoting Fuzzy, reply 3

From what I see of 2013 it looks a lot more unusable than 2010.

2010 is bad enough, everything you do is a clickfest.

Gone are the days when you could click a button for a new document or to print, it's all click, click, click, and for printing, "yes, I do want to enable effin' printing"

Since we updated to 2010 at work some jobs take me twice as long Productivity is critical for someone who works in finance and uses Excel all day.

Oh, you can modify your toolbar - at home. At work the toolbar reverts to basic everytime you logon (or at least it does where I work).

At home I'm sticking to Office XP.

Rant over...
End of Fuzzy's quote

Thanks - you've saved me some pain. I have Office 2010 and 2013. I've never installed 2013 but was thinking of doing so when I upgrade to Windows 8. I think now I will not.