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Outlook 365, how to go back to OLD ribbon graphics and icons
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).
- People's vision has to also be taken into account and shades of gray will not always work.
Vision concerns have to come second it seems. I have been having pen and palm rejection problems since December. This past week or two, Word has been so clunky, I resorted to reinstalling Office. That of course means that my toolbars are all out of size and only grey in colour yet again. I give up. The only plus is that my pen problems have vanished at least. I can now draw smooth lines without splotches appearing.
I have had to rearrange my icons and tabs because they were collapsed instead of expanded as they were, even in desktop/mouse mode.
MS seems not to listen or care.
I have had to rearrange my icons and tabs because they were collapsed
instead of expanded as they were, even in desktop/mouse mode.Well the collapsed part is easy to correct, at least: There is a push pin that you can click to keep the ribbon open. The push pin changes to a carat in the lower right corner of the ribbon to collapse it again.
Brian Reid I agree, simplified icons are probably .svg
it makes since to me, as a web dev myself, I'm trying to develop scalable interface for any device/screen.
plus the icons look great with the windows dark theme, the colors really pop.
SJP363 I get the need for scalable, fair enough. I guess it would look better with a dark theme.
But guess what, not everyone has 40" monitors. Not everyone wants to work with a dark theme. How come we get a choice of theme but not icon colour scheme? Would it be soooo difficult for MS to provide a separate icon set? Way back when, you could use any icon on your sys, or even create your own icon - shock horror! That was when Office really was mine. The many, many toolbars were mine. That was true customization. So many years forward from then, and yet MS have gone so far backwards.
Disappointed doesn't even begin to describe my feelings after so many years of buying and using MS products
Agree with you 100% on your 2019 comments on these MS assholes who stole our outlook 2010 aesthetics. I have been angry for years. My IT administrator has been amazing about keeping my Outlook 2010 running, but I have been experiencing increasing problems, so I looked into the 2022 version hoping for some legacy skins options, yet have not found any way to change. Recently I had to succumb to the "toddler" effect of the Windows 10 ridiculous Windows XP-like icons whereas I used to be able to change my skin to the superior windows 98 theme. You are the only one I came across who truly completely gets how Microsoft has raped us intelligent users and also imposed the "Steve Jobs" effect AKA your definition of fifty shades of gray or what I called white on white snowstorms; like "where the **bleep** is the search field? Oh, I finally found it, no **bleep**ing visible box just a snow blindness field. Who the **bleep** likes this minimalistic, Steve Jobs Form over-function **bleep**? It's like iPhones, so oversimplified they are challenging to use by analytical thinking intelligent people.
QUESTION: Is it possible to revert to Outlook 2010 look and feel in the 2021 version? Or do we have to wait another decade before the fashion trends trend away from Steve Jobs? OR will society continue to become less intelligent like in the movie Idiocrasy?
I understand the need to make a set of scalable AVAILABLE, and maybe even the default for new installations, is not a bad thing.
Not keeping the old icons available for the Windows native apps and removing even more customization options is simply laziness.
Microsoft was able to create the "simplified" (read as dumbed down) ribbon and allow us to switch back and forth. There was no reason not to leave the old icons and layout available.
Fair enough but how does colour relate to being scalable? I work on different monitors at different resolutions, icons have not been a problem yet. But for me colour is a major issue.
There should be a choice at least. It's like leasing a blue car then getting up one morning and finding it's now fluorescent pink, and controls have been moved about because someone decided it should be so.
Thankfully MS don't make cars
- It's a dang icon, deal with it
- Please make your voice heard and vote for it!
@greed. The minions at Microsoft cannot leave well enough alone. When something works, it does not need to be "improved" because they cannot make enough changes to justify a new version.
The office suite is fabulous and great. For the majority of users, these changes only alienate simple users who probably use less than 5% of the features.
Things like a new default theme with absurd colours, different (and worse) icons for ribbon items and menu realignments HURT more than improve the product.
Please leave these things alone.
OR
Make them customizable so the smart users can control their environment.
