Office 2013 - Colors, ugh

Of course, Office 2013 has 3 standard schemes, but they are pretty bland being white or 2 grays.

Can anything be done?  Not much

For Outlook:
https://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/outlook2013whiteandbright.htm

Perhaps personalize a few colors
https://forums.windowssecrets.com/showthread.php/152108-Why-is-the-Office-2013-color-scheme-so-bland

And, others comment here, and some calls to Microsoft...and for some, High Contrast Themes helped...
https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/2013/changing-office-2013s-color-scheme/

GMAIL Add Account notes

Generally, if setting this account as alternate to an account elsewhere, leave check for alias empty.

Then when adding account details,put in server as follows:
  smtp.gmail.com
  587
  username: just xxxyyyzzz (not @gmail.com)

Microsoft Office Activation

"Telephone activation is no longer supported for your product"...

Well if you call 866-421-7141
then MS will send you a link to your smart phone

The link will take you to a domain such as microsoft.gointeract.io\somethingsomething

Here are some pages which talk about it

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/43wpzm/til_microsoft_phonebased_product_activation_can/

https://borncity.com/win/2017/02/12/microsofts-obscure-self-service-for-mobile-office-activation/

Also, this page has some related information:
https://textuploader.com/d6ujd