Mar 19, 2020 We do understand your feeling and realize it would be convenient if we can change the Office themes to other color like black, dark grey, etc. Since it is limited in Office 2016/2019 for Mac currently, we kindly suggest you vote or comment on the following feature request in our UserVoice forum to let the product group hear your feedback. This is the best method to help us improve the products. Oct 31, 2018 Office for Mac Gets a Visual Refresh, Dark Theme; Office for Mac Gets a Visual Refresh, Dark Theme. Posted on October 31, 2018 by Mehedi Hassan.
When you apply a formatting theme to projects created in Office 2011 for Mac, you can achieve consistent colors and fonts for the elements included within your Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. You can choose from Office for Mac’s built-in themes or make your own.
A theme contains formatting information. This includes the following:
Twelve colors:
Four background and text colors, two of which are invariably white and black
Six accent colors
Two hyperlink colors for link, and followed link
A font family that comprises two fonts.
If you want everything consistent for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, choose the same theme while working on documents in each application. Here’s how to apply a theme from the Themes gallery:
In Word and Excel, click the Ribbon’s Home tab. In the Themes group, click the Themes button. When you click the Themes button, the themes gallery displays. Choose a theme. All elements in the document or workbook that respond to theme colors and fonts will be affected.
In PowerPoint, click the Ribbon’s Themes tab. This displays the Theme gallery. You can choose a theme from the gallery or click at the bottom-center of the gallery to display the Themes submenu. To apply a theme to only selected slides:
Before choosing a theme, select specific slides in Slide Sorter View or in the Slide Preview Pane.
Reminder: Hold Command to select more than one slide at a time.
Right-click a theme.
A pop-up menu lets you choose to apply the theme to the selected slides or the entire presentation.
Alternatively, you can choose Browse Themes within the Themes gallery and navigate in the resulting dialog to a saved theme file. Choosing a saved theme applies the theme.
Themes are not supported in Compatibility Mode. When working on files that were saved in 2004 or earlier format, themes options are grayed out. Save the file in a current format to enable themes.
When you directly apply a color format in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you see the familiar color palette. The colors in the Theme Colors row of the color palette change to match the colors of the theme you applied. The color variations beneath the theme colors row provide shades (darker variations) and tints (lighter variations) of the theme colors. Each column has these shades and tints of the theme color at its top. The color palette does let you wander away from the theme colors by choosing the More Colors or Standard Colors options, but if you choose to do so, you defeat the purpose of using themes.
Dark Mode, available in macOS Mojave or later, is a dramatic new look that's easy on your eyes and helps you focus on your work. Dark Mode uses a dark color scheme that works system wide, including with the apps that come with your Mac. And third-party apps can adopt it, too.
Dark Theme Microsoft Office Mac 2020
Turn on Dark Mode
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click General, then select one of the Appearance options at the top of the window:
- Light: Use the light appearance.
- Dark: Use the dark appearance.
- Auto (available in macOS Catalina): Automatically use the light appearance during the day, and the dark appearance at night.
How Dark Mode works with some apps and features
Some apps and features have special Dark Mode settings or behaviors.
Microsoft Office Mac
- Mail. To use a light background for email messages while Dark Mode is turned on, open Mail and choose Mail > Preferences, then click the Viewing tab and deselect ”Use dark backgrounds for messages.”
- Maps. To use a light background for maps while Dark Mode is turned on, click View in the menu bar in Maps, then deselect Use Dark Map.
- Notes. To use a light background for notes while Dark Mode is turned on, open Notes and choose Notes > Preferences, then deselect ”Use dark backgrounds for note content.”
- Safari. When you use Dark Mode, Safari automatically shows a website in Dark Mode if the website has been designed to support it. If the website doesn't support Dark Mode, you can use Safari Reader to read articles in Dark Mode.
- TextEdit. To use a light background for documents while Dark Mode is turned on, click View in the menu bar in TextEdit, then deselect Use Dark Background for Windows. (Requires macOS Mojave 10.14.2 or later.)
- Dynamic Desktop. If you turn on Dark Mode while using Dynamic Desktop, the desktop may change to the dark still image. You can change this setting in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences.