# Word on Mac does dark mode!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-mac-does-dark-mode/947636>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 30, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-mac-does-dark-mode/947636 "2021-07-30T13:06:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-mac-does-dark-mode/947636/1 "2021-07-30T13:06:33Z")

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In the category ‘Small blessings’, I just discovered that Word on my Mac shows dark mode.

Quick background: MacOS does allow dark mode (i.e. white letters on dark background) for a while now, but it is up to individual applications to also implement that. MS Word didn’t do so for a long time and also did not have a dark mode setting of its own, forcing me to look at an eye-scorching white screen unless I tried a few tricks with other drawbacks (i.e. inverted colours or so).

And now, without any fanfare, Word suddenly does what I’ve desired for so long. I never thought I’d say this, but: thanks, Microsoft!

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**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-mac-does-dark-mode/947636/2 "2021-07-31T02:20:57Z")

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They seem to be rolling this out in waves. My personal Office account doesn’t have this feature (yet) but my work Office account does.