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How can I have my old colored ribbon icons in Outlook? After update 1809 (Build 10827.20138)
Totally agreed. For me Office is UNUSABLE with these new icons, just totally distracting and off putting.
To roll back to the sane icons you need to disable updates and revert to a sane build (See FIX below).
(MICROSOFT you are forcing me to forgoe security updates to have Sane / Usable icons?)
*********** FIX *********** (This works for Office 365 / Version 2016)
In an Office 365 Program, e.g. Outlook
Click File -> "Office Account". Under "Updates" choose "Disable".
Then, in an elevated command prompt and type the following:-
cd "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun"
officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.10730.20102
Reopen office programs and your icons will be reverted.
I hope that someone comes up with a way (e.g. via a resource editor) to change the icons in modern builds so that I can have security updates again.
Cheers,
Luke.
- This worked for the icons and removing the recent flat design rendering Outlook emails composing to rather useless / inoperable. Thx Luke, now reverted to a much more useful Outlook and Word product.
I'm hoping this works for me too in Word ( Yay! It does! Thank you!) . I opened to find all my custom toolbar icons, carefully selected to be distinct and easily selectable, to be larger, cartoon-like and basically 50 shades of grey. If I wanted eye candy I would have gone elsewhere. If MS want to push products for the simple masses why don't they produce a cheery plebby version for them and a decent version for us that want to modify menus/icons/macros rather than constantly changing functions and usability for everyone at once, usually at the expense of serious users.
At least give us the option of what new "features" to accept, I'm really not that fussed about being able to embed a dino with a beating heart .
Luke, you are the best!
Thanks!
Thanks microsoft for letting me try thunderbird. It works very well! ;-)
https://www.thunderbird.net
