Oct 03 2018
08:51 AM
- last edited on
Feb 01 2023
01:34 PM
by
TechCommunityAP
Oct 03 2018
08:51 AM
- last edited on
Feb 01 2023
01:34 PM
by
TechCommunityAP
How can I have my old colored ribbon icons in outlook?
Changed with update 1809 (Build 10827.20138)
I already visited this article but I want back my colored icons.
Thanks
Oct 03 2018 09:23 AM
Oct 11 2018 06:07 AM
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.
Oct 11 2018 12:18 PM
Luke, you are the best!
Thanks!
Thanks microsoft for letting me try thunderbird. It works very well! ;)
Oct 16 2018 04:56 AM - edited Oct 16 2018 04:59 AM
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 .
Oct 22 2018 03:15 AM
Oct 24 2018 02:08 PM
As you can read in the article there's a reason for the change. Just get use to it. In a year or so you forgotten about the old ones.
Jun 03 2019 11:53 PM
Nov 14 2019 01:52 PM
I've had the new gray, blah, 2-dimensional icons since subscribing to 365 last year and can't get used to them. I'm very disappointed in the poor graphics quality. I came across this community while searching to find if better ribbon graphics existed that perhaps I was not aware of.
Nov 15 2019 10:03 AM
Nov 18 2019 12:23 AM
For now this key still does the job. Probably, it will stop working in the future but here it is:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentEcs\Overrides]
"ofg1hdkzibqt1j0"="false"
Nov 18 2019 12:40 AM
Ah, that certainly looks an interesting solution, rather than being stuck forever on a previous build version after resubscribing. Will give that a try too. Thank you!
Aug 17 2020 07:32 AM