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Outlook 365, how to go back to OLD ribbon graphics and icons
Ha ha...it's not just Outlook, its all of Office 365 … I followed the revert procedure and yay! my Word icons are back to normal. But today I opened Excel and lo and behold...there are the icons for toddlers still! I also noted that right click paste options have altered there.
I knew I should have gone for Office 2016. I surely wont be renewing my subscription if this continues.
Would a petition work? Probably not, I guess there must be many more toddlers using Office than there are serious users, although I suspect the toddlers are using cheap ebay codes, luckily for them.
It's a very new look and with all new things it takes some time to adjust to. Same thing happened from the Office 2003 versions to 2007.. Also use Microsoft uservoice to release your anger and vote for improvements instead :) Microsoft will make improvements all the time..That's what makes an subscription better as well...
Adam
- Realizing I'm late to this party I want to make clear that Office 365/2019 IS NOT ADA compliant. My legally blind wife cannot use anything newer than 2016 and Word 2016 is bug infested for the features she works to use as a writer.
Track changes, among other things is an example of things not working correctly under the macOS on 2016.
She wishes she could revert to Office 2008 because it worked until the latest OS release (latest for us) and she got updated to Office 2016.
Who should we contact about the issues of ADA accessibility? I'm not adverse to adjusting, when there's a real reason. I have spent time and effort customising my Office layout (although it seems actually it's not 'mine' after all). Icons for my macros and commands are easily distinguishable using the limited range of icons MS allows me to use, given I cannot create and assign my own any more (yes people were actually able to design icons, fully customise toolbars and menus, and did use their own a few Office versions previously). Customizability, which is ultimately usability, disappears with every reincarnation of Office, for the sake of eye candy.
Fifty shades of grey is not working for me at all. Any idea how I get the rest of Office to revert to previous build (I cannot understand at all why the revert only changed Word).
- So there is a "real reason" for the new icons. They are scalable to all the different size resolutions that people operate Office on nowadays. The old ribbon had fixed size graphics that worked on a limited resolution range before being blurred.
- People's vision has to also be taken into account and shades of gray will not always work.
