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JulienTheriault
Aug 03, 2022Brass Contributor
Full Dark Mode in Excel
Currently you can set Office Theme to Black which acts as a dark mode. In Word, setting this to Black makes the page dark and the text white when it is set to “Automatic”. I was wondering if anyo...
JKPieterse
Aug 08, 2022Silver Contributor
The only way I know how to get this is by turning on High contrast in Windows. I expect that is not what you want to do 🙂
- JulienTheriaultSep 20, 2022Brass ContributorThat is in fact not what I want to do. I don't want to have to switch the High contrast option on & off all the time just to get a black worksheet. I want it to work like Word does, show the page black and text white but in reality it's a white page with black text.
- TomJ812Sep 13, 2022Copper ContributorI have the same interest as JulienTheriault, having recently lost part of my vision I found that activating the Windows “dark mode” has been helpful in continuing my work as an engineer. Like wise I am perplexed why the dark mode is not applied to worksheets in Excel. The band-aid fix of using contrast themes is not useful. Using contrast themes reduces the worksheet to two colors, obliterating any highlighted (color filled) cells, colored text and colored boarders. I have found that using an inverted color filter to be more useful, colored text and cells are still visible. Unfortunately, if you have set Windows to “Dark Mode” inverting the colors will bleach out the ribbons, tabs and commands above the worksheet and you will need to toggle back-and-forth to access commands and the worksheet. But this is just a better band-aid, the worksheet not changing to a full dark mode is the problem that needs to be addressed. Repeating JulienTheriault questions:
Is there a way to get a full dark mode?
Is there already a plugin that does that?
Can a plugin be made?
Window settings referenced:
Dark mode:
Settings > Personalization > Colors, choose your mode, Dark (a key board short cut is not available)
Contrast Themes:
Settings > Accessibility > Contrast Themes
Keyboard shortcut: left Alt + Left Shift + Print Screen to toggle between the previously sleeted theme and “none”.
Note: contrast theme’s are different than “Themes” that are a submenu of “Personalization”
Inverted Color Filter:
Settings > Accessibility > Color Filters >
The inverted filter has worked best for me
Keyboard shortcut: Window Logo Key + Ctrl + C (The Keyboard shortcut needs to be turned ON in the settings menu)