Microsoft Office, which was renamed Microsoft 365 some time in the past, is about to bear drastic visible modifications. Microsoft is giving its Office suite a brand new commonplace theme throughout all particular person functions reminiscent of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Everything from fonts to colours to even line weights are getting new default settings.

The modifications are supposed to make paperwork created with Microsoft 365 look extra trendy and accessible, Microsoft says. Here’s transient overview of what Office customers might want to regulate to as soon as the brand new Microsoft 365 default theme goes stay in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.

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New commonplace font: Aptos replaces Calibri

The first, most evident change that each Microsoft 365 consumer will see instantly: Office will quickly be utilizing a brand new default font.

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Since 2013, Calibri has been the default font for Office apps. But Microsoft customers with 5 alternate options to select from for a brand new default:

• Bierstadt
• Grandview
• Seaford
• Skeena
• Tenorite

Bierstadt received the race and can now turn into the brand new commonplace font for Microsoft 365, albeit below the identify Aptos. Aptos helps quite a lot of font kinds (reminiscent of regular, italic, daring, and so forth.) and variants reminiscent of slim, serif, and monochrome.

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As regular, you may after all use every other font accessible in Microsoft Office.

New shade palette

Microsoft additionally researched standard shade palettes and design traits after which created a set of normal colours that ought to work effectively in all Office functions. The motivation behind the change is making your paperwork really feel extra accessible. The new colours are appropriate for content material reminiscent of charts, lists, and shapes.

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New type

Microsoft desires to make the default type for Word paperwork and Outlook emails simpler to learn and extra skilled wanting. This change ought to make it simpler for customers to navigate by means of paperwork.

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New line widths

Microsoft has additionally elevated the road widths, so the strains will probably be thicker. This ought to result in higher consistency between shapes and features. Microsoft has additionally improved the distinction.

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How to make use of the brand new Microsoft 365 theme

With the introduction of the brand new theme, all new paperwork, displays, worksheets, and emails you create in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook will mechanically have the brand new theme utilized. You received’t must take any particular motion to see it.

Your current paperwork is not going to be modified to the brand new theme, nonetheless. They will proceed to make use of the unique design that was utilized once they had been created. You can proceed to make use of the earlier Office theme if you’d like, however you’ll must manually change to “Office Theme 2013 – 2022.”

Availability

Currently, solely Microsoft 365 Insider Testers can check out the brand new theme. These are the necessities:

• Win32: Version 2308 (Build 16701.20000) or larger
• Mac: Version 16.76 (Build 23070400) or larger
• Android: Version 16.0.16701.20000 or larger

An iOS model isn’t accessible but.

Microsoft is just not but disclosing when all Microsoft 365 customers will probably be swapped over to the brand new default theme. Until then, Calibri will stay the usual font in Office.

Editor’s notice: This article was translated from German to English, and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.