

(The white in the Preview build never really bothered me, but I keep the monitor brightness down, especially on my laptop. I like the light gray ribbon but I'll stick with the white theme because the folder names are easiest to read. The color and background options can be set or changed in File, Office Account. I knew the chances of that were between slim and none, but thought we might get a black theme. Some people hoped we'd get the old blue and green choices back. Any help getting started with this would be greatly appreciated. I know a lot of people wanted a black interface the dark gray isn't even close. The path of the registry key is: ComputerHKEYCURRENTUSERSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftoffice16.0outlookoptions disablereadingpane REGDWORD 0x00000001 (1) And I need to change the 1 to a 0. Microsoft removed the ability to change the font used for the folder names, so we're stuck with the colors and fonts, and no option to increase the font size to make the names easier to read. It's not so white but the contrast in the folder navigation pane is less than optimal for tired eyes. The light gray theme isn't bad it's a little easier to read and the status bar is blue, so it has a little more color than the dark gray. The new feature inverts the colours of the web application from white to black in order to minimise eye strain.

The dark gray navigation pane and similarly colored folder names is not an improvement. Microsoft has added a dark mode to the online version of its Outlook email client.

The new "colors" are White, Light Gray, and Dark Gray. We now have 3 shades of gray to choose from but 14 background decorations. Microsoft gave us more gray, but it just makes Outlook more gray, not necessarily easier on the eyes. Office 2013 was released on TechNet this afternoon…įirst, let me apologize for getting everyone's hopes up that Outlook 2013 would have a less white, less eye strain interface in RTM.
