Learn how your comment data is processed. Hello, For some reason both 2013 Word and Outlook keep reverting to the White Office Theme and I want it to be Dark Gray like. We have other stuff to discuss there, which is what we cover themes here... Note: Choosing the Use system setting option will make Skype reflect the Dark or Light settings of your operating. Regardless of how you configure this policy setting, users can change their Office theme by going to File > Account > Office Theme (or, in Outlook, by going to. But that still doesn’t mean that we cover it in the Clients chapter. choose want to add personal touch to your microsoft outlook 2016 you can change the theme and easily. But one of our team members likes this stuff and felt we should mention it. Go mad and be creative!īeing a serious kind of book, Office 365 for IT Pros doesn’t normally pay much attention to minor details like browser themes.
Figure 4: How to stop people changing their Office 365 themeĪs you can see, there are other tweaks you can make in the Organization Profile, like adding your organization’s logo. For instance the Blue Fonts in the email windows, I'd just like to revert back to black. > I'd like to pic the color combos that work best for my visual acuity issues myself. We've collected the suggestion and submitted it to the product group for consideration for a future product or update. Figure 4 shows the location of the slider. I know that there are only four themes in Office 2016 (Colorful, Dark Gray, Black and White), which is not so satisfactory to some users. Select Manage custom themes for your organization and set the slider for “Prevent users from overriding their theme” from Off (default) to On. Go to the Office 365 Admin Center, select Settings and open the Organization Profile. Last, as pointed out by Brian Reid, you can stop users changing the Office 365 theme they see in the Organizational Profile. Second, Teams is an Electron-based app (even when running in a browser) and always uses its own interface elements.
Even the Office 365 Admin Center uses themes, but the EAC or old SharePoint Admin Center won’t. Apps like SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Planner, and Yammer are also happy to use whatever theme you select. For example, the old OWA interface (the one most generally used today) ignores Office 365 themes while the new OWA picks them up.
Joking apart, some serious points can be made about Office 365 themes. Figure 3: The Unicorn Office 365 theme Some Apps Like Themes, Others Don’t