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JulienTheriault
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Aug 03, 2022

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...
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JKPieterse
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Jan 07, 2023

AdrianParker thanks, but I would prefer a true black mode. I know we can fake it, but I don't want to change the cell formatting. I want a different display of the grid. 

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AdrianParker
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Jan 08, 2023
as far as I can tell, using the template is just setting the defaults for everything, which is what they'd have to do for a 'default' dark mode, so I don't really see any difference.
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    dktrjoy
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 04, 2024

    Then there's this lovely nugget! AdrianParker 

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      Adrian_Parker
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      Apr 04, 2024

      dktrjoy is your bad request too long something to do with dark mode ?

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      mamachugh1030
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      Apr 04, 2024

      dktrjoy I saw that message yesterday when attempting to insert a picture as a watermark in Word. Any idea what that's about?

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    PaulW1990
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    Feb 21, 2023

    AdrianParker Thanks for your solution. The issue is when opening and saving multiple shared workbooks in an institutional setting. Resaving/copying 10+ workbooks at the beginning and end of a working session (so as to no not share a dark version) is not really an option. 

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