

Microsoft 365 subscribers get a bonus-a black theme. You can choose dark gray to soften the higher-contrast elements if you’re not using Microsoft 365. The primary accent color for the selected theme will be used in the ribbon and taskbar. For now, it’s enough to know these settings exist. In the Personalize Your Copy of Microsoft Office section, use the Office Background and the Office Theme settings, shown in Figure B, to explore later on. In the left pane, choose General (it should already be selected).

To explore a bit, click the File menu, and then choose Options (or More and then Options) in the left pane. Word has a few settings that you can experiment with to liven things up, or not. Don’t worry if your colors aren’t exactly the same mine is set to use the system settings (the default). It’s predominately white, gray and blue as shown in Figure A. The sheet of paper is white (the document), the container window is gray, and the ribbon is gray with spots of color. Newly installed Microsoft 365 looks pretty much the way it always has, color-wise. There’s no demonstration file you won’t need one. Dark Mode is available only with Microsoft 365 subscriptions. I’m using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system. SEE: 83 Excel tips every user should master (TechRepublic) Although I’m working in Word, once you turn it on, it’s on for all Microsoft 365 apps.

In this article, I’ll give a brief review of what Dark Mode is, and then I’ll show you how to enable it. However, you’ll be glad to learn that Dark Mode is now available to Microsoft 365 subscribers. It works with most apps that you can get from the Windows store, but it doesn’t work in Microsoft 365 apps. If you spend a lot of time working in Microsoft 365, you might wish that you could use it in Dark Mode.

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