Microsoft Office includes black and dark gray themes. On a Mac, you must change your system theme to dark mode. Outlook for iOS is a free download from App Store. To enable dark mode in Microsoft Office for Windows, navigate to File > Account, then set the Office Theme to 'Black.' You can also change Windows 10 or Windows 11 to dark mode and use the default 'Use system setting' setting. Microsoft says Office for Mac with Mojave’s Dark Mode support is ”coming soon”. Proper Dark Mode support should solve the current problem where the predominantly white interfaces in desktop Office apps become jarring when enabling Dark Mode in Mojave. In fact, it’s available right now to Office Insider beta testers with build 181029.Īs you can see from his tweets, enabling Dark Mode in Mojave will tint the entire application in dark shades to a dramatic effect, which is especially useful when working in low light. TUTORIAL: Switching between Light and Dark background for emails on your MacĪ few days ago, Microsoft’s product manager Akshay Bakshi confirmed on Twitter that proper support for macOS Mojave’s Dark Mode is coming to Microsoft Office for Mac. Theme support has been present in Outlook’s web app for some time now: the image top of post shows the difference between ’s Light and Dark themes. It even offers something similar to the now-standard Dark Mode. That mode won’t debut today, but is something that’ll appear in a future update. Microsoft Office for Mac has the most amount of customizability with different viewing modes. Microsoft is also working on a dark mode for Outlook mobile, and it’s a highly requested feature. Miles Fitzgerald, who leads the mobile design for Outlook, told The Verge: Thankfully, Microsoft did confirm they’re working on such a feature.

While the additions a blue navigation bar, swiping improvements, account and people avatars and all-new sensory feedback when navigating Outlook for iOS’s section will appease productivity and road warriors, normals seem to be hungry for Dark Mode. Dark mode is a darker color palette for low-light or nighttime environments. Software giant Microsoft, which today pushed a major design update to its mobile Outlook app for iPhone and iPad, has officially confirmed that it’s working on a darkened app interface.

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