Yes, after the latest update MS Office is now also capable of supporting the OSX Dark Mode. Nice, but rather annoying for MS Outlook I must say, the dark mode just makes reading the different panes very challenging. I went looking for an option in the UI that allowed me to change the default, I couldn’t find it, unfortunately, but I did find a way to disable it through the command line. For MS Outlook, in particular, this is how you do it:
defaults write com.microsoft.Outlook NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool yes
You can do this for other apps as well if you want, simply change the identifier string of Outlook (com.microsoft.Outlook) with the string of the app you want to disable it for. If you don’t know the string you can do the following to find it:
osascript -e 'id of app "Outlook"'
In the above example, I am looking for the identifier of Outlook, but this could be “Spotify” or anything else as well of course. Figured I would share this, as I found myself searching for half an hour. Note that you need to close/open the app after making the change!
Great timing! I love the dark mode, but I rather had Outlook still the old-fashioned way. I had this on my “to do list” since the forced introduction of the Outlook dark mode. Thank for sharing and caring!
Amazing, thank you!
Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much!
Brilliant! It was a really mess to use office in dark mode!
Awesome!!! Brilliant .. It worked like gem. Small Suggestion even after executing the command in the terminal if the outlook didn’t change to Dark mode is still didn’t turn off, please quit the Outlook application and reopen the application again. Boom !!! It works…
Thanks Epping
thanks for adding that, app needs to be closed and opened indeed.
very helpful, thank you very much:)
Thank you very much!
there is a checkbox in the Outlook Mac’s Preference->General to turn off dark mode. I don’t know when it showed up.
awesome!!!!!!
You totally rock! Thanks so much! I too like dark mode, but not for outlook. Transparent images or just white background images in signatures looked horrible in dark mode.
Thanks for posting this