Users with normal vision may like to use their computer in light mode, whereas some users, especially people with contract problems may prefer dark mode. Also, it is better to work with the light mode in bright light conditions and dark mode at the night or in dark environments.
Now, Microsoft Office allows you to easily switch between dark, light, colorful, dark grey, and system themes. This feature is mostly available to Microsoft Office 365, Office 2019, and Office 2016. However, Office’s dark grey, colorful, and system themes are only available to Microsoft 365 version. Also, if you have Microsoft 365, you can use the new dark mode feature for your Office apps.
When you use the new black theme (dark mode) for the Word, it will not only change the theme of the toolbar and Ribbon but also the writing canvas of the Word document. The background and theme you apply in one Office app (e.g. Word) will change the theme and background of all the apps in the Office suite to provide a unified experience.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to personalize the theme and background of MS Word (Office apps), and change the Word to ‘light’ or ‘dark’ mode.
Change Word to Light Mode (applies to All Office Apps)
Most of the computer interfaces and software uses light theme/mode for displaying content because this mode resembles the look of ink on paper, making texts more readable than other themes.
Light Mode, also known as Positive contrast polarity, is the classic black text on white background. If you have normal vision or are in a bright environment, this mode helps you digest information much easier. In the light background, there’ll be more light, hence pupils don’t need to dilate more to let in more light, which makes it easy for your eyes to comprehend the information.
By default, the Office apps (including Word) are set to ‘use system settings’ (Windows theme) or ‘Colorful’, but you can change the look and feel of all your Office programs by changing the Office Theme or background. As we mentioned before, when you change the theme of one of the Office apps, it automatically carries your Office themes across the suite to all apps. To change the Microsoft Word theme to the ‘White’ theme (light mode), follow these steps:
Switch to Light Mode from Account Settings
First, open the Microsoft Word application (or Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook), then click the ‘File’ menu at the top left corner of the program.
In the Word Backstage view, select ‘Account’ on the left panel.
On the Account page, click or tap the ‘Office Theme’ drop-down list and choose the theme you want: Black, Dark Gray, Colorful, or White. Since we want light mode, we’re selecting the ‘White’ theme here.
As you can see, the title bar, ribbon, canvas, borders, everything is in white now (light mode).
To be honest, the difference between the white theme and the default ‘Colorful’ theme is subtle. In the ‘Colorful’ theme, the title bar would be in blue and the ribbon and the window would be in light-grey (nearly white) color. On the ‘White’ theme everything would be in White color.
The real difference in the appearance of the app is when you change the theme to ‘Dark Grey’ and ‘Black’ (Dark Mode).
Switch to Light Mode from Word Options Screen
Open Microsoft Word, then click the ‘File’ menu in the Ribbon. Then, select ‘Options’ at the bottom of the left panel in the backstage view.
The Word Options window will appear. There, make sure the ‘General’ tab is selected in the left pane and look for the ‘Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office’ section on the right.
Under the ‘Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office’ section, click the drop-down menu next to the ‘Office Theme’ and choose ‘White’ for light mode. Then, click ‘OK’ to apply.
Try the Dark Grey Theme too
Let’s see how the ‘Dark Grey’ theme looks on Word. To do that, follow the same above instructions and choose the ‘Dark Grey’ theme from the ‘Office Theme’ drop-down.
This is how the Word looks in the Dark Grey theme.
How to Change Microsoft Word Background (applies to all Office apps)
Microsoft Office apps also allow you to change the background of your apps. There are several backgrounds pattern you can choose from like clouds, spring, underwater, and more.
To change the background, open Microsoft Word and click the ‘File’ menu. Next, click ‘Options’ from the left sidebar and select the ‘General’ tab. Then, choose a background pattern from the ‘Office Background’ drop-down list under the ‘Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office’ section.
How to Enable Dark Mode in Word
If you’re a night owl who tends to stay up until late at night, working on your Word documents, MS Word can strain your eyes and damage your retinas with its bright white coloring. To address this issue, Microsoft Office introduced a new black theme (dark mode).
For people with cataracts and related disorders or people who work in low light environments, the dark mode can reduce eye strain and accommodate light sensitivity. In the dark mode, you will read and write white texts on a dark background which makes it more stylish and appealing than the light mode. Also, Dark mode helps you reduces battery usage especially if you’re using an OLED screen.
The dark mode was also available in the previous version but it only changes the theme of the ribbon and toolbars, while the writing canvas stays bright white. But with the new Dark Mode, the dark theme includes the document canvas as well. Unfortunately, this full black theme is only available in Microsoft 365.
To turn on Dark Mode in the Word, Open Microsoft Word (or any other Office app) and click the ‘File’ menu in the ribbon. Then, click ‘Account’ in the sidebar.
On the right, change the dropdown below Office Theme to ‘Black’.
Alternatively, you can click the ‘Options’ in the backstage view. Then, choose the ‘Black’ theme from the drop-down menu next to the ‘Office Theme’ under the ‘Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office’ section in the Word options. Then, click ‘OK’ to apply
Now, Microsoft Word (and other Office apps) will automatically run in a dark mode as shown below. As you can see, the toolbar, ribbon as well as canvas are in full black color, and colors (texts) within your document will automatically adjust to accommodate the new color contrast.
Quickly Switch Between Dark and Light Modes
Once you applied the Black theme, you can easily switch between the black and white page background colors without having to switch the theme. This is helpful if some of the contents of documents are not displayed correctly in the Black theme. Here’s how you do that:
After the black theme is selected, go to the ‘View’ tab in Word Ribbon, you’ll see a new button – ‘Switch Modes’ in the ‘Dark mode’ section. Click/Toggle the ‘Switch Modes’ (sun icon) to change the background page color to white.
Doing this will change the editor back to a light mode (temporarily) while leaving the ribbon, background, title bar, and status bars black (as shown below).
To turn the editor back to black (dark mode), click the ‘Switch Modes’ button again (this time, it will be a moon icon).
How to Disable Dark Mode (But Keep the Black Theme)
You can also change the editor back to white canvas (permanently) while keeping the black theme of ribbon, background, and status bars. Here’s how:
Go to File > Options > General, then check the ‘Disable dark mode’ box (next to Office Theme drop-down) under the Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office section.
This will always keep the editor page color white while maintaining the black theme.
That’s it.
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Over the past couple of days, we’ve been seeing some users complaining about their Microsoft Word document showcasing a black background with white text. What could be the cause of this? Well, we can say for certain it is not being caused by a bug.
As stated above, it has nothing to do with a bug affecting Microsoft Word. It is all due to Dark Mode. Yes, Microsoft Word supports Dark Mode, and chances are, you’ve enabled it by accident, or someone who used your computer in the past did the deed. Additionally, maybe you’ve recently chosen to use a high contrast theme. Such themes can cause a change in the look of Microsoft Word documents that might not be pleasing to the eyes. Now, we must state that another reason for the dark background with white text affecting a document, may be due to hardware graphics acceleration.
Worry not because we know how to solve this problem, so keep reading to get a better idea of what to do:
- Disable Dark Mode in Microsoft Word
- Switch from using high contrast themes
- Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration.
1] Disable Dark Mode in Microsoft Word
OK, so we are going to discuss how to turn off Dark Mode in Word and return it to a setting that is more appealing to you.
- Open the Microsoft Office application
- Go to the File tab.
- Click the File tab to open the menu.
- Choose Account.
- Click Office Theme drop-down arrow.
- Choose Black to turn On the Dark Mode.
- To enable Dark mode for a single PC, Select File Tab.
- Go to Options.
- Scroll down to the Office Theme.
- Change the theme to White
Before we begin, you must ensure Microsoft Word is up and running. Do this by clicking on the shortcut on the Taskbar, Start Menu, or double-click on it if it’s located on the Desktop.
The next step, then, is to navigate to Account. You can do this by looking at the bottom left area of the main menu of Microsoft Word. If you’re in a document, then click on File, then bring the mouse cursor down to Account and select it.
From the Account area, look for the section that reads, Office Theme, and click within the box to reveal a dropdown menu. From here, you can change the theme from Black to White. Also, if your background is black due to System Settings, you can.
Once you’ve made the changes, Microsoft Word should now return to having a white background with black text, just like normal.
Read: How to get rid of black squares or boxes in Word.
2] Switch from using high contrast themes
So as we’ve stated above, using a high contrast theme for Windows 11 could be the cause of your problems, so what can we do? Well, how about we change it to a regular theme?
First, we must fire up the Settings app by clicking on the Windows key + I. Right away the Settings menu should appear in all of its glory.
OK, so from the left-pane, we suggest clicking on Accessibility to reveal a bunch of options to the right. Scroll down if you must, then choose Contrast Themes from the list of options.
In order to turn off the current Contrast Theme, click in the box to reveal a dropdown menu. From there, select None, then hit Apply. You will see a Please Wait screen, so do what it says and in just a short moment, things should return to normal.
3] Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration
Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration and see if that helps you.
TIP: Learn how to enable Dark Mode for Teams, OneNote, and Outlook.
Does Microsoft Office have a dark mode?
Yes, the folks at Microsoft updated the Office Suite with Dark Mode a good while back, so if that is something you like, then you’ll be a happy camper as it works quite well. However, the Dark Mode function is not for everyone.
Is Dark Mode better for the eyes?
From what we can tell, Dark Mode could decrease eye strain for those who look at a computer screen quite often, at least, for some. However, we have not come across any conclusive evidence to say the benefits are factual. What we do know for sure though, is that Dark Mode extends the battery life of your device.
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Can someone tell me what I’m missing? I’ve customized Office 2007 to have a «shared themes path» and set that to a network location. I can confirm that the entry is correct through the registry.
I’ve dumped some themes there — one that I created locally and then moved to the network and another that I downloaded from the internet. Problem is, they are not appear in Word 2007 and I don’t know how to make them.
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Microsoft Word uses the default template whenever you open a new blank document. It is called normal.dotm and has predefined settings for font size, font family, themes, paragraph spacing, etc. The documents generally use Office theme with predefined set of styles. If you are not happy with these default settings in Word, you can customize the theme in Microsoft Word to make things as per your convenience.
Default Theme Settings in Word
A theme in Word document has three components:
- Fonts – size and family
- Styles – colors, spacing, etc., for each element like list, heading, paragraph, etc.
- Effects – bold, italic and other effects for elements
A theme can have custom values for all these components or use only few of them. For example, you will always see the document opens with white background in most of the Word themes though it is possible to have a different page color. In addition, you may also always see the font size of paragraph as 11 pixels and paragraph spacing as single. This may be annoying and you want to customize these settings as per your need.
Customizing Theme in Microsoft Word
The blank document in Word for Windows uses the font size as 11 pixels and family as Calibri. On Mac, you can see the default font size as 12 pixels. As mentioned, the blank Word document uses the Office theme as a default theme. There are two ways to change your default theme settings in Word:
- One is to choose from one of the predefined themes that come with your Word installation package. You can also create your own theme and use for future documents.
- Other is to customize each component of the default normal.dotm template so that you can use on all your documents. For example, you can manually change the default font size in the template to 14 px or 16 px instead of 11 px.
In both cases, the objective is to have a uniform setup for all your documents and keep things convenient for your working.
Choose Default Themes
This is an easy and recommended way without changing any other settings in Word.
- Go to “Design” tab in the ribbon and click on “Themes” option.
- You will see a list of pre-defined themes and select the one you want to apply on your current document.
- You can hover over the theme to see the live preview before selecting a specific theme.
- You will notice the style in your document like heading color, font size, font family are changed as per the theme you have selected.
- Word will apply the selected theme only on the current document. If you want to use the theme for all your future documents as a base template, then click on “Set as Default” option.
- You will see a prompt informing you that Word will apply font, colors, effects and paragraph spacing of the current theme on all new blank documents. Click “OK” to confirm the prompt and apply the changes.
Customize Blank Template
If you do not like to use any of the existing themes, then it is possible to customize the appearance of the blank template and set as your default.
- Choose the style set for heading and text elements under “Design” tab’s “Document Formatting” group.
- Select base theme colors, fonts, effects and paragraph spacing by clicking on the respective dropdowns.
- It is also possible to apply page background color and borders for your document.
- If the existing colors and fonts are not enough, you can always upload third-party items.
- Additionally, you can go to “Home” tab and apply new “Styles” for your heading and body text. If required, you can change the font family and size from here and define new styles for each element using styles editor.
- When you are done, go back to “Design” tab and click on “Themes” dropdown.
- Select “Save Current Theme…” option.
- Provide a name for your theme and save it for future use. In this case, you need to manually select the theme every time when you want to use it in your document.
- If you want to use the customized theme as your template, then click on “Set as Default” and confirm the prompt to apply your changes.
Next time onwards, your blank document will always open with the customized theme. You do not need to increase the font size or change the font family every time when you open Word.
Change Office Theme
Themes are available across all Office apps like Excel and PowerPoint. It means, you can save a theme in Word and open in Excel or PowerPoint. However, styles are only applicable for Word or in your current document. For example, the custom theme we have saved in Word with the name as “WebNots” can be seen in PowerPoint as shown below.
It is also possible to change theme of your entire Office applications like Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel in Windows version.
- Open any Office apps like Word or Excel.
- Go to “File > Options” menu and go to “General” tab.
- Select your preferred theme from “Office Theme” dropdown.
The selected theme will be applied to all Office applications like Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. You can choose the black theme to apply dark mode in Office apps or force to use system settings. However, these Office themes will not have impact on font size, family and other paramters. It will only affect the appearnce of the app by using the selected color.
I have Microsoft Office 2010 32-bit running on Windows 7 32-bit. When text is highlighted and a color is selected from the mini-toolbar or the ribbon, the text does not change color. If I change the color for multiple words, and select a different color for each word, the toolbar and ribbon will reflect each of the different colors that I chose, however it is not displayed in the document. So it appears that Word is aware of the text color and not as if it is simply not applying the change.
What may be causing this inability to view text colors and how might I fix it?
My only troubleshooting attempt so far has been to perform a repair installation of Office.
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I created a document, typed a word, selected it and changed the color. I then saved the document as HTML. The text did not change color. This is the HTML in the document:
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<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
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<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
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<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
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<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
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<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
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DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
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<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"
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EDIT 2
I recorded a macro and did the following:
- Typed a word
- Selected the word
- Changed the color.
Oddly, I had some strange issues while the macro was recorded. I could not select text with my cursor. I had to select the text with control a and then apply the color change. I then couldn’t deselect the selected text.
Nonetheless, the text showed that it had a different color in the toolbar, but the color did not display in the document. Here’s the macro:
Sub Change_Text_Color()
'
' Change_Text_Color Macro
'
'
Selection.TypeText Text:="Test Text"
Selection.WholeStory
Selection.WholeStory
End Sub
EDIT 3
I opened WordPad and created some text and was able to successfully change the color. If I copy and paste the colored text into a Word 2010 document, the color is lost. However, if you place the I-beam in the text and then look at the color selection drop-down menu on the ribbon or mini-toolbar, you can see that the proper color that the text should be in is highlighted.
Edit 4
I uninstalled the entire Office 2010 Suite, rebooted and then reinstalled the suite. No change in behavior.
Edit 5
Text cannot be colored in Excel either.