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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...
JulienTheriault The easiest workaround I can think of, is to open Excel files in the web browser, while using a dark mode extension.
I'm using Chrome with a dark mode extension called "Dark Reader". I use Office365 or Google Sheets to view Excel sheets in the browser, & I automatically have them viewed in dark mode.
I'm also using this method to view PDFs in dark mode, as I couldn't find an app that views PDFs in dark mode natively.
Diaa_Amin Weird, I also thought of this, but for me it doesn't work. But I'm a longtime Dark Reader user, so I wonder why, what's different. Did you customize its settings, or did anything special to get full dark mode ?
Works great for me when I tried yesterday 6/18/25
