Microsoft begins rolling out Office visual refresh
Microsoft is rolling out the visual update it gave to insiders back in July to its regular Office users. Both 365 and licensed versions on Windows are getting the refresh now.
The update is matching Windows 11's visual style with rounded window corners and the option to use a dark theme (or sync the theme with your Windows).
The Quick Access Toolbar (the one at the very top) has been hidden by default, but you can bring it back with a right-click on the ribbon and a check the Show Quick Access Toolbar option.
You can tell you've gotten the visual refresh if there's a 'megaphone' icon in the top right of your Office window. In it, there's a Coming Soon feature that enables the visual refresh.
The visual refresh is available and you can enable it in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote. Toggling the new design in these four apps will also change the look of Access, Project, Publisher, Visio and Outlook, though you can't untoggle it in those apps.
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- Rohan
- 09 Aug 2023
- vGg
Is this only for office 2021 and 365 or would I still get this if I have Windows Home and Student 2019?
- Anonym
- 07 Dec 2021
- Mq5
Try the many alternatives out there and then understand why this "failure" is by far the most used Office suite in the world, despite being the most expensive option in the space. Maybe if you only write text you can get by with the alterna...
- Anonymous
- 06 Dec 2021
- SXx
Office was when it was in its infancy as simple as Google Docs few decades ago, and that's exacly why Google Docs is far behind in market share than Office today.
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