How To Update To Office Visual Update For Windows
If you’ve recently upgraded to the newly released OS Windows 11 and you are no longer comfortable with the old Microsoft Office, then you’re in luck as Microsoft Office now has a fresh new look that can match your Windows theme with the Microsoft Office Visual Refresh.
Microsoft, the software giant in late June, announced a new look for Office designed for Windows 11 which can also elevate user experience in Windows 10 according to a new blog post from Microsoft.
This Microsoft’s new visual update for Office delivers a simple and more coherent experience across the Office apps – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook. Once enabled in one of the compatible Office apps such as Word, the visual refresh will also be applied to the others so Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook will have a new look as well.
How To Enable The Visual Update For Office
Microsoft’s new visual refresh for Office can easily be turned off or on using the Coming Soon feature which is located in the top right corner of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
To get started,
- Click the megaphone icon to open the Coming Soon pane,
- Navigate to the bottom
- Use the toggle to move between the new and current interface and apply the setting to all of Microsoft’s compatible Office apps.
NOTE: The Coming Soon feature is not available in Access, Project, Publisher, or Visio. If you turn on the visual refresh in any of these four apps mentioned (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote), it will also be available in the four apps mentioned above.
Although the Coming Soon feature is available in Outlook, it cannot be used to turn the visual refresh on and off. If you turn on the visual refresh in any of the four apps mentioned above (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote), it will also be available in Outlook.
Other Notable Changes: The biggest change in this visual update is the Office Theme. Office now matches your Windows theme by default. This means you can experience it in whichever Windows theme you want including black with Word Dark Mode enabled, white, colorful or dark grey. The new default Office theme is, “Use system setting.” This means you will see the Office White theme if your operating system (OS) is set to Light theme, and Office Black theme if the OS is set to Dark theme. If you had the Colorful theme selected before, your theme will now be set to “Use system setting.”To learn how to change The Office Theme Visit Support Microsoft
Another change is that the Quick Access Toolbar. It is now hidden by default to make the user interface of Office simpler.
To display it again,
- Right-click the ribbon or click on the Ribbon Display Options icon
- Click Show Quick Access Toolbar.
Microsoft’s visual update is now available for users running Windows 11 as well as for those running Windows 10 version 2110 and build 14527.20226 or later but if you don’t see the update, restarting Office should make it appear. Otherwise, if you do not see the megaphone icon in the top right corner (per the above instructions) then the update is not available to you yet.
For more detailed descriptions of the Office visual update, scenarios to try and more, Visit Microsoft official product blog post
