Note: currently, dark mode only supports the default blue theme. Step 2: In Settings, toggle the Dark Mode option on.
Start by selecting Settings at the top of the page.
Setting it back to Automatic immediately solved the problem.īizarrely, even though the Font color was set to white (as shown in the above screenshot), you can see that this was not reflected in the preview on either the Font dialog or the preceding Signatures and Stationery dialog. How to Get Dark Mode for : Step 1: To change the default background color for, you must be using the new and Outlook on the web experience. The font colour should normally be set to Automatic, and in our case it was inexplicably set to white. The dark mode update means the canvas will now have an option to switch to a dark mode, instead of the bright white that currently exists today. You find this option by going to File > Options > Mail > Stationery and Fonts, then clicking the Font button under Composing and reading plain text messages. Microsoft is adding an even darker mode to Word soon. Sure enough, somehow the font option for reading and composing plain text emails had been set to a white font. I quickly determined that it was only plain text emails that were affected (rather than those with HTML or Rich Text formatting), which led me to investigate the font options. He knew there was text there, because he could highlight the invisible text and copy & paste it into Word. Shortly after upgrading to Outlook 2013 from Outlook 2010, one of my users complained that some of his emails were showing up with invisible text in the message body.