

Never want to see a dark canvas? Go to Word > Preferences > General > Personalize and select the Turn off Dark Mode option to disable both the dark Office theme and the dark page color, or the Dark Mode has a white page color option to continue using Dark mode with the white page background,” it says. To confirm the default view (white canvas), use the Switch Modes button to flip the page color to white. “The dark canvas does not convey how your document will print, or the default view your collaborators will see when they open it. Current available in the beta channelĪt the same time, Microsoft also gives users the option to enable the dark mode but stick with a white canvas.

Indeed, reds, blues, yellows, and other colors will be shifted slightly to mute the overall effect of the color palette and look more visually pleasing with the new dark background,” Microsoft explains. Colors within your document will also be shifted to accommodate the new color contrast. “With Dark Mode, you’ll notice that the previously white page color is now a dark grey/black. Next, you should be able to see a new button under View > Switch mode that lets you easily jump between the two visual styles.

MICROSOFT WORD ON APPLE FULL
This is the reason Microsoft has been working on bringing a dark mode to all of its apps, including Microsoft Office, with a full dark theme released for Windows users earlier this year.Īnd now, Microsoft is bringing the full dark mode to Word on the Mac desktop as well, essentially turning the whole UI to black when users press a single button in the ribbon.Īll you need to do is open Microsoft Word on your Mac computer, and then go to Settings > General > Appearance > Dark to enable the dark mode. Outlook users will get not only native Apple Silicon support, but support for iCloud accounts as well, allowing them to sync their email, contacts, and calendars to the app if they use Apple’s service to store them.Dark modes are cool, there’s no doubt about it, and for most people, they’re also the easier way to work on a computer during the night even bright colors and white backgrounds could easily become a nightmare for the eyes.
MICROSOFT WORD ON APPLE UPDATE
Office users who have automatic updates turned on should have the new versions sometime today, and anyone else can update it through the Mac App Store or Microsoft’s AutoUpdate software (depending on if you downloaded Office through the App Store or directly from Microsoft). It seems like you’ll have to stick with the emulated version for now, if your team uses Teams. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s main communications competitor, Slack, has native support available in a public beta. Microsoft promises they’re working on that platform in their blog post, but the company hasn’t announced any sort of timeline. If you’re a heavy user of Teams, you may be disappointed to hear that it hasn’t been included in today’s rollout of updates. It contains a word processing app called Pages, a spreadsheet app called Numbers and a presentation app called. The updates are making the apps universal ones - meaning these versions will run on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, so any upcoming updates or features will be coming at the same time for both platforms. Apples productivity suite is called iWork. The apps getting the updates are Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote. If you’ve been using Microsoft Office on an M1 Mac, it’s about to get better - Microsoft is announcing an update today that brings native support for Apple’s new custom chip architecture to the Windows productivity suite.
