I’m someone who likes dark mode. I use dark mode in every program that supports it and I use browser addons to force websites into rendering in some sort of dark mode as well, even if they don’t support it and thus look quite terrible.

Now I just got a new laptop from my workplace, sadly running windows.Setting it up, naturally I activate dark mode everywhere. Works fine for the most part, main window theme, browser, teams aren’t too hard… but I couldn’t figure out how to do it in Outlook.

What would be reasonable locations to find a dark mode toggle?

  • Settings -> Appearance? Theme?
  • View -> Theme? Dark Mode?

Well, it turns out that the setting is under File -> Office Account -> Office Theme. Okay, fair enough. Maybe it will then apply to all of the office programs. But that isn’t the case either! In order to get teams to comply with my only-dark-mode policy, I need to enable it under Options -> General (duh!). Neither Powerpoint, nor Excel react to the “Office Theme” either. Are they not part of the core Office Suite?