Change colors of Outlook or Word icons
In the task bar, latest icons for Outlook 365 and Word 365 are too similar (blue).
It's confusing.
Regards,
François Perriot
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51 comments
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Anonymous
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hope they revert back outlook color to orange or other than blue as word.
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Anonymous
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So glad to see this as I thought it was just me. I guess it is to level the playing field so the rest of us can experience colorblindess. Ridiculous.
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Anonymous
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yes help us be more productive and change Outlook icon back to yellow
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Angelo
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Why Excel is not blue too ?
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Anonymous
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What department thought it was a good idea to use almost identical shades of blue for Outlook and Word. They are virtually indistinguishable on the task bar.
Do Microsoft graphic designers or marketers have ANY input regarding, um, I don't know, branding?
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Avi
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Whew, I'm so glad it wasn't just me. I have no idea how such a horrible idea could be made. Change the outlook icon back to Yellow!!!!
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LAM
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WHY ARE OUTLOOK AND WORD THE SAME F****G COLOR??? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE. MICROSOFT "GENIUSES" YEAH RIGHT
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Anonymous
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Please change this! It shows a real lack of design prowess and consideration for the user experience. Outlook, Word and teams all look like hues of blue and cause the user to mistakenly click on the wrong app, madness!
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Martin
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FGS revert outlook back to YELLOW!
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John Pappas
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Extremely confusing to have blue icons for both Outlook and Word for long time users of Office. I probably hit the wrong app at least 2 -3 times per day. Outlook used to be an orange color... it really wouldn't matter what color Outlook is changed to as long as it isn't Blue which is what Word has been for years. This is a very annoying problem and adds stress, unecessary needless/incorrect mouse clicks to those of use who are clicking our lives away trying to get stuff done. PLEASE CHANGE THIS.
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BP
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Couleurs similaires avec Word, One-Drive, Teams, Edge, Paramètres etc... Ce n'est pas ergonomique. Et c'est à devenir fou. //// Similar colors with Word, One-Drive, Teams, Edge, Settings etc... This is not ergonomic. And it's going crazy.
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Remy van Bergen
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I use alt-tab and can't find Outlook between several Word-documents. It's annoying!!!!!!!! And stupid really, who made this mistake?
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Anonymous
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do any of these comments even get seen my Microsoft!? I just want to change the color of Outlook icon.. frustrating to see so many similar comments, yet how will we get a response.. or are these comments falling on deaf ears?
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Peter Swords
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Agree. The similarity between Word and Outlook icons is a disaster.
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Scott Pursley
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Please revert back to yellow for Outlook. The similarity between Outlook and Word really is frustrating.
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Ben L
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Similarity between Outlook and Word icons not only confusing, but also deeply frustrating, and slows productivity. Particularly since the alt-tab function is so much harder to use, we now all have to rely on the taskbar. Please, please, please revert back to Yellow Outlook icon
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The Accountant
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Please make office icons customizable.If that's not gonna happen, at the very least make outlook icon yellow again! It's extremely irritating, I've open MS words by accident so many times already, because the two icons are just to similar.
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PaulM
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My work version of Microsoft Office has just been upgraded to 365 and I dislike it intensely. It's not just the fact that the Outlook icon is now blue, which itself is extremely irritating, but the whole suite of programs has a cheap feel about it. My home computers all have Office 2010 and I shall be sticking with that. Does anyone know how to turn the Outlook icon back to yellow?
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J. Shields
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I'm a company owner and I can't describe how much I loathe Office 365 and Outlook 2016. That apart, I agree with previous comments, the colour Blue for the Outlook icon was a poor choice. Back to yellow please. A lot of us work at speed and it's little things like this that hold people up.
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Anonymous
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Agree - please change! I currently have five icons in my taskbar that are blue and it makes me crazy. Best would be to allow me to put text on an icon because I process text better than pictures.
