Microsoft Office’s New UI Now Rolling Out for Everyone

American tech conglomerate Microsoft has began to roll out a brand new Office UI for its customers this week. The visible replace was initially introduced earlier this yr and went into testing over the summer time.

Now it is beginning to roll out to all Office 365 and Office 2021 customers, according to The Verge. This new Office UI is designed to match the visible adjustments in Windows 11, and it features a extra rounded look to the Office ribbon bar, with some delicate tweaks to the buttons all through Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

It’s a comparatively easy refresh, and Office will now match the darkish or gentle theme that you just set inside Windows. The new-look may be toggled on or off utilizing the Coming Soon megaphone icon within the high right-hand nook of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote.

It must be out there for all Windows 11 customers proper now, and Microsoft says 50 p.c of present channel subscribers can have the visible replace enabled robotically.

Most of the design adjustments are delicate, however Microsoft has teased extra dramatic adjustments to its Office UI, which included transferring towards extra of a command bar as a substitute of the normal ribbon interface.

As per The Verge, it is nonetheless anticipated to see these adjustments seem within the Web and cell variations of Office first, and Microsoft did say final yr that its greater Office UI adjustments might take a yr or two to roll out.