New Outlook Dark Mode feature and other Insiders news

Office-Watch.comLast updated: 6 July 2021

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The 21 June 2019 Office 365 for Windows Insiders release 11815.20002 has a new Dark Mode feature in Outlook plus some fixes.

Here’s the details including Microsoft’s report on ‘Notable Fixes’.

Outlook

New features

Outlook 365 for Windows now has a Sun/Moon button when using Dark mode and the black theme,

Sun/Moon switches the reading and compose panes between a dark or light background. That’s a good move because while you might prefer dark mode, most readers of your messages will see it with a light/white background.

Source: Microsoft.

The light background looks like this.

According to Microsoft, enable this feature from File | Office Account | Office Theme and choose the Black theme. For some reason the Sun/Moon icon isn’t appearing in our test machines.

There are some known issues with the feature, that should be fixed in later versions.

First line of text is sometimes recoloring incorrectly when composing an email, but it should still send correctly.
Text for a blocked image is unreadable.
Text inside text boxes and shapes is being recolored when it shouldn’t.

Notable fixes

We fixed an issue which could incorrectly display an add-in as being enabled when it was not.
We fixed an issue which would prevent a customer from viewing all retention policies if there were a large number of them.

Word

Notable fixes

We fixed an issue where keyboard focus could sometimes be difficult to see.
We fixed an issue which could prevent some users from saving changes after suspending their computer.
We fixed an issue where text pasted into a new document could sometimes have the wrong text alignment.
We fixed an issue where, in certain cases, an entire document would be printed instead of the selected page.
We fixed an issue which could make comments difficult to read on small displays.
We fixed an issue which could cause a crash when capturing to a device.
We fixed an issue which would keep the Search Box enabled while offline.