In outlook 2016, in the folder pane, I want to change the font.not the message pane, or the preview pane, but in the far left pane where all my folders reside. In older versions of outlook, it was simple, but, in Outlook 2016, I cant for the life of me figure out how to do it. On the Mac you can choose between two Office themes: Colorful or Classic. Additionally, if you set macOS to Dark mode Office will respect that choice. To change the Office theme click on the menu for your Office application (Word, Excel, etc) and select Preferences > General. Select the dropdown next to Office theme and choose the theme you want.
The blinding white background of Outlook 2013 is causing trouble with some of my end users. The options in Outlook only change parts of the window, but the message list and preview pane are still bright white. In my own research, I have found that when the Windows theme is changed to High Contrast Black, it changes Outlook as well. I have tried to isolate the registry settings that affect this change, but have only been successful in changing the 'window' color, which still leaves the message list as white, no matter what color I change the window color to, it only changes the preview pane. So, to spare millions of Outlook 2013 users from the headache of bright white message lists, who can identify what changing the theme to High Contrast Black does that directly affects Outlook's Message list color so Outlook 2013 users can enjoy it without the headache? I have used registry monitoring tools to attempt to identify a registry change that does it, but it doesn't stick out.
We've encountered a lot of the Office 2013 display issue recently. Please firstly update your display adapther to the latest version to have a try. Please also try to 'Disable hardware graphics acceleration' under Outlook File Options Advanced tab Display section to check if the problem still persists. Cheers, Tony Chen Forum Support Come back and mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. If you have any feedback on our support, please contact. Made absolutely no difference. With all due respect, I think you only skimmed over my post and offered a generic response.
This behavior can be reproduced on any computer running Outlook 2013. The settings under Control Panel Appearance and Personalization Personalization Window Color Advanced appearance settings. Select the 'Window' item, and change it to any color, the message list still stays white.
However when you change the theme to High Contrast Black under Control Panel Appearance and Personalization Personalization, it changes it to black along with every other white spot, as shown in my pictures. Again, you can do this all on your own computer with little impact. With all due respect, please don't ask me to try something that you didn't already do on your computer to reproduce the issue and correct it. Not only does that waste my time, but it will waste the time of the thousands of people who find this post in the future looking for a solution to this blinding white work area. So if there is lots of requests for it, why doesn't this company respond to the marketplace? IMHO, the company cares more about an image it is trying to project, led by little geeks that think gray is a wonderful color for a computer and bright white is oh so keen and nifty.
It doesn't matter to the little geeks that our eyes are taking a royal beating. Me, I want to add white to the background color choice in calendar view so my daily calendars aren't shaded. Every prior version of Outlook was able to print plain white on a daily page. Now I'm stuck with the lightes shade of a color wheel the doesn't include white. STUPID IDEA MICROSOFT!
That shading shows up when I print and when I scan or copy my daily calendar. High Contrast Black, why didn't I think of that.:-) My outlook now looks like it was created by a hack back in the 90's, but at least that horrible grey is gone. My disgust with Microsoft & their approach to consumer choice has encouraged me to start looking at alternatives to Office in general. We need more options, because for what I use Office for I've come to realise, there really isn't any choices for us Exchange Users. Microsoft, please add the ability to have a little colour/color in our Office life.
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I spend 3 hours+ per day around this program & I don't need the bland interface that you've 'graced' us with. Continuing this. Who's idea was this anyway and when can they be fired really? Because they are the cause of Microsoft's future problems to compete in a world where every person is unique and wants to interact and display different sides to themselves in color!
It is simple yet a crucial design flaw. For Microsoft to liken their 'image' to communist China is really typical actually of what Microsoft does. Let's make everyone wear grey - luv it! Nothing surprises me anymore about this company.
Windows 10 technical preview. They are still not getting it!
Agreed - The contrast in office 2013 is horrendous. How do people at Microsoft accept such awful design changes as good ideas? Even the High Contrast theme offers minimal contrast. Researching this issue for a coworker who has vision problems, I came across this link. The only workable way to make this disgusting interface have enough contrast is to go into one of Windows High Contrast monitor modes, as the original poster noted.
Playing around with that, I found a way that might help some users. Once you're in that High Contrast mode, a 'Window Color' button at the bottom of the Personalization/Theme dialog allows you to change dialog colors the way you could in the old days before Aero. These color changes affect Outlook 2013. Unfortunately, they affect every app, even ones that have nice interfaces. So while it can make Outlook's interface usable, it may negatively impact other applications. (Tried to upload an image, but my account needs to be 'verified' first, whatever that means. I've 'confirmed' my email address; guess that's enough.).