- [Tutor] If you like to use the dark mode on your computer,
you may enjoy some of the special dark mode options
that Word has built in.
And this is something that works differently
on Mac and Windows.
First, for Windows users,
you should go to Windows settings.
So I'll go to the start menu to Windows settings,
then I'll go to the personalization category,
then on the left side, I'll go to the colors sub category.
Now different additions of Windows
have different controls here,
but you're looking for the option
to set your app mode to dark, and I'm going to do that here.
Now, most of the applications on my computer
will be in this dark mode,
but when we close window settings,
we see that word does not conform to that dark mode,
but it can, if you change a setting.
To do that, we'll go to the backstage view,
so I'll click the file button near the top left corner
to go to backstage,
then I'll go to account over here on the left,
and I'm looking for this menu for the office theme.
Now, if you do have dark mode set in Window settings,
you can choose this option for use system setting
that will make Word match what you said in Window settings.
Or another option would be to choose the black theme here
that also sets Word to the black theme
no matter what your global setting is in Windows settings.
Now, of course you could choose any of these other themes
if you want, and you might like the dark gray theme,
but there's another feature we're going to see
in just a moment that is only available
if you either choose the black theme,
or if Windows is set to the dark mode
and you choose the use system setting option.
Okay, so now that I've got that sit here,
I'm going to click the back button up here
on the top left to go back to my document.
You can see everything is now in this darker theme.
So next I want to go to the view ribbon,
and I'm looking for this option here for switch modes.
And that's only going to be there,
if you're set to one of the dark themes that we just saw.
And this button allows you to set
whether the actual document view
will be in the dark mode or not.
So you might want the entire
application interface to be dark,
but you might still prefer the document to stay accurate
to how it will look when you print it.
Or you might prefer to set the document to be dark,
just to have a consistent dark mode experience.
So you can set that there,
but only if the word theme has already set
to one of those dark mode options.
Okay, so that's how it works on Windows,
now let's take a look at the Mac.
On the Mac, if you want to use dark mode,
you need to have the dark mode enabled in macOS itself.
And if you don't already have that set,
you can go to system preferences
by clicking the Apple logo in the top left corner,
that opens a system menu,
then you go to system preferences.
From here you can go to the general category
and you can see the appearance option here,
I'm currently set to the light mode,
I'm going to switch over to the dark mode.
So the dark mode option in system preferences
affects how most application Windows we'll look.
We can see that here in the system preferences Window,
and of course, when we quit that,
we can see it also in the Microsoft Word Window.
But at this point there's an important setting
you should check in Microsoft Word.
So go to the main Word menu up at the top,
then to preferences,
then go to the general category here.
And you're looking for this section labeled personalize.
And from here, you can decide if the document page itself
will have that dark mode applied to it,
and that's the middle option here,
or you might want the page to have the white page color,
so it's consistent with how it will look when it's printed.
So I can switch that, close this panel,
and you can see how that looks.
All right, let's go back into Word preferences,
back to that general section.
And you can see the other option here
is to simply turn the dark mode off entirely.
Now that does not disable the dark mode
for other applications.
That's controlled by the setting
we saw in system preferences.
This setting only disables the dark mode in Microsoft word.
So of course you should go here
and choose how you want word to work
when you have the dark mode enabled.
So if you prefer the dark mode on your computer,
you also have some additional options
for how the Word interface will look.