How to activate black theme or dark mode in microsoft office

A couple of years ago, Microsoft introduced a dark theme to Office. This is a theme that allows the background of the toolbar in documents to turn black. An option that can be comfortable for those users who work at night on some occasions. It is available for Office 2016 and Office 365 users. Today we show you how it is activated.

How to activate black theme or dark mode in Microsoft Office

When activating this dark mode in Microsoft Office, it does not matter in which program we carry out the steps. Since the changes will be applied to all of them. So both Word, Excel and PowerPoint will end up using this dark mode. Below we explain the steps to carry out.

Turn on dark mode in Microsoft Office

The first thing we have to do is open any of the Microsoft Office programs. In this case we open Excel. Once inside, we have to go to the file section in the upper left. We will get a new screen with various options. We have to look in the left column and at the bottom we get an option called account. We click on it.

Within account we will see that we get a section with the background and the theme of Microsoft Office. They are two drop-down lists. The one that interests us in this case is that of the subject. We click on this menu and the list will open. From the options that come out we have to select black. In this way, the Office background will be transformed to this color.

So, immediately you will see that the background color is transformed and we now have a black color. This same color will also be shown in the documents that we open with any of the office suite programs. When changing it, the steps are the same.

In this way you can see that it is quite easy to activate this dark mode in Microsoft Office. Something that can be useful to you if you work at night with any of the programs in the popular office suite.