Everyone should now use the LibreOffice program at home instead of Microsoft Office, since it is completely free, free to use and with the same programs and same functions. Libreoffice in its latest version has improved a lot also aesthetically and the developers have tried to correct the worst flaw of this free suite of programs, that is the graphic aspect that in the first versions was spartan and ugly.
Even after this improvement, those coming from Microsoft Office can make sure that LibreOffice programs are more similar to Word, Excel and Powerpoint, not only in functionality, but also in the appearance of the icons of its buttons, both for aesthetic taste, both to better recognize the menu keys .
The file to be used to make LibreOffice more graphically similar to Microsoft Office has been published on the deviantart website where you can download it for free by pressing the Download button located on the right side of the page.
To use the icon set, of course, you must already have LibreOffice installed on your PC.
The download from deviantart is a zip file that must not be extracted, but only renamed with the name images_office2013.zip .
This file is then moved to the LibreOffice configuration files folder, that is:
C: \ Program Files \ LibreOffice \ share \ config \
On PCs with 64-bit Windows Libreoffice could be installed in another location so the file must be copied to this folder:
C: \ Program Files (x86) \ LibreOffice \ share \ config \
After moving the configuration file, open one of the LibreOffice programs, for example Writer and apply the new graphic theme.
Then go to the Tools menu, then click on Options and in the screen that opens, click on the View menu.
From here, press on the icon style drop-down menu, which by default should be Automatic (Tango) and select Office 2013 instead.
Press OK and verify that the icons have changed in the LibreOffice Writer menu, becoming the same as in Word.
Of course, you can go back to the previous style whenever you want and try the other sets of icons available to see if there is one that you like best.
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