Why does my Excel have a new look?

Hello,

This forum is a user-to-user support forum. My name is Charles and I am a fellow user with decades of experience using Microsoft Word. I have written extensively on using Word and have authored help articles on the Microsoft site.

Someone on the design team decided that this is better for them. The only way to have them change it back or at least make it optional is by sending feedback, but not here.

Please don't shoot the messenger! I am a fellow user trying to help you use the Office that is rather than the one that should be. If you assign a rating to my response, please rate my response, rather than how you feel about the program!

The people who can make changes to Excel seldom, if ever, read anything that is posted in this help forum.

You can use the Feedback mechanism in Office to let developers know what you want.

https://support.office.com/article/How-do-I-giv...

If you do, you can include a link to this thread to further explain the problem.

See also https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

I hope this information helps.

Please let me know if you have any more questions or require further help.

You can ask for more help by replying to this post (Reply button below).

Stay well

Hi, Can you check Office themes>File>Account>Office Theme>Change to colourful

Happened to me too and I dislike it.

They made a seemingly trivial change to the aesthetics because it is a very visible change (even though users don't like it) that even a user manager can see. "MS is 'improving" Office, so the ongoing cost of 365 subscriptions is worth it ...", <sigh>.

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It is yet another example of a change that MS forces on users that it would have been trivial for them to give user choice to in the options dialog.

Ok... so its from the Microsoft side of things... like it was done on an automatic update? That seems so weird that they would do it to Excel, but not the rest of the Office suite? Did this happen to other people, too?

Thanks for the info!