Microsoft’s new Office UI is now rolling out to everybody

Microsoft is beginning to roll out its new Office UI to all customers this week. The visible replace was initially introduced earlier this 12 months and went into testing over the summer time. Now it’s starting to roll out to all Office 365 and Office 2021 customers.

This new Office UI is designed to match the visible modifications in Windows 11, and it features a extra rounded look to the Office ribbon bar, with some refined 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 mild theme that you simply set inside Windows.

The new look will be toggled on or off utilizing the Coming Soon megaphone icon within the prime right-hand nook of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote. It must be accessible for all Windows 11 customers proper now, and Microsoft says 50 p.c of present channel subscribers can have the visible replace enabled routinely.

Most of the design modifications are refined, however Microsoft has teased extra dramatic modifications to its Office UI, which included shifting towards extra of a command bar as a substitute of the normal ribbon interface. We’re nonetheless anticipating to see these seem within the internet and cellular variations of Office first, and Microsoft did say final 12 months that its larger Office UI modifications may take a 12 months or two to roll out.