How To Change Outlook To Dark Theme?

With all of these startling new options available to you, you might find yourself wondering what to do about your Outlook email. While you can use the standard Outlook theme and color scheme, there is another way to change the look of your email program that is better suited to this new age of technology.

Out of the box, Outlook’s interface can be a bit hard on the eyes, but with the right tips and tricks, you can use Outlook Dark Mode to make your email program more user-friendly.

Working in Outlook or any other similar platform, comfort visibility not only turns your work enjoyable but also results in additional outcomes in your workplace.

Selection of numerous options available in different platforms for users, Outlook consists of Black, Grey, and white backgrounds. All of them seem beautiful and the user prefers according to their interest.

What is Outlook Dark Mode?

Outlook Darkmode changes the visibility which is the preferred choice of a few users, dark mode changes the high brightness to low which changes the environment of work and easy to concentrate (might be you enjoy dark mode). The dark mode is only available in the latest Outlook.com and Microsoft 365 (earlier known as office 365).

Is Dark mode one step ahead for your eyes?. The answer is it depends, some use to work in a dark environment some preferred bright lights while navigating. The choice is yours.

Dark grey and black theme are the two options in Dark mode for 365.

Switch To Dark Theme in Outlook? [Steps]

It is difficult to work with the light theme in Microsoft Outlook. Sometimes, you need to work on the dark theme so that you can see better at night. There are some ways to change the outlook theme to the dark theme.

Outlook Office theme By Default use system setting which looks the combination of blue and light grey color, Switching to the dark mode, (two options dark grey and black theme) which changes Outlook attire completely.

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Let’s get started to get the (step by Step) method to turn ON dark mode in Outlook.

• Open Outlook
• Click on the ‘File’ Tab from the left-hand corner of the Outlook screen.
• Click Office accounts from the sidebar.
• By Default Colourful theme is selected, you can switch to dark grey or black theme for dark mode in Outlook.

•  Once you hit Dark Grey or Black theme options, Outlook switch to dark mode.

The color scheme is attractive, In case you need the entire Outlook in Black you can go for it, remember the Black theme is too dark.

Any change in the theme, not only affects Outlook but the entire Microsoft Office applications on your system, for instance, Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. Working on other platforms with the dark mode is quite difficult.

There is a second approach to changing the theme to dark mode in outlook. Here is the step-by-step process.

• Click File >> Options
• Now from the “General Category” >> scroll to “Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office” section.
• For the “Office Theme“, change your desired theme from the drop-down list.
• Finally, Click “OK” to save the changes.

Dark Grey Theme vs Black Theme

Dark Grey Theme & Black Theme both fall in dark mode criteria, the color combination is different Dark grey comes with light grey and dark grey combination bit the email list background is also light grey, which may be comfortable invisibility.

Opening a mail message in the separate window (reading pane) the background convert to white color. [Refer: Image]

Talking about the Black theme popularity known as the dark mode is completely different. Email list, a reading pane, or tab list all are dark black.

Reading Pane in Outlook Dark Mode:

You can turn dark mode on and off when reading a message in Outlook by clicking the icon a the top of your message in the shape of either a sun or moon.

Under black mode Outlook provides an option to change the reading pane background to white and back to black by clicking on the (sun and moon) icon available on the left-hand side.

Outlook Turn Off Dark Mode

The user has to click the moon icon (white background) for every email message in the reading pane. If you like the black theme but don’t want it to change the background of every new and existing message, and you like to keep the white background. You have to disable the (Sun & Moon) option.

• Click File >> Options >> General
• Under “Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office” and then check the box Never change the message background color.
• This option is only available for the black theme to disable the changing color of the background.

Once you check the box, any email message in the future, the lights (white background) will remain on as a default setting.

While composing a New email message under the dark mode, the background can be changed to bright light and back to dark, from the Message toolbar by selecting the dark mode icon to change the message window to white or black.

How To Enable Dark Mode on Android, iPhone & iPad

• Lunch Outlook by clicking on the Outlook icon on your Android, iPhone, or iPad.
• Tap on the gear icon in the bottom-left corner of the interface.

• Clicking on the Settings menu walks you through, few more options, scroll down to the “Preferences” section and click “Appearance”.

• Under appearance change the theme option from “System Default” or “Light” to “Dark”.

• Once you hit dark mode, the whole outlook changes into a black theme.

Microsoft outlook dark theme is only available for 365 users, But the black theme that’s been around for years has in fact a very limited use in Outlook. For a few people, dark mode is more comfortable, and some complaint of headaches and eye problems due to the overwhelming bright background.