Apple - How can I remove 'Dark Mode' from Ms Office apps without disabling it across macOS?
To disable Dark Mode for MS Office only, you need to run a terminal command for each of the MS Office apps in question.
For example, if you wish to disable dark mode in MS Excel, follow these steps:
- Quit Excel if it’s running
- Launch Terminal (usually found in the Applications/Utilities folder)
- Enter (or copy and paste) the following command:
defaults write com.microsoft.Excel NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool yes
- Now press return
- Enter (or copy and paste) the following command:
killall cfprefsd
- Now press return
Now when you launch MS Excel it should appear as it it normally would without Dark Mode enabled.
NOTES:
- To do this with the other MS Office apps, just change the command at Step 3 so that it’s referencing the app in question.
- Each of the app names within the command must start with an uppercase letter (note the uppercase 'E' for Excel in the command at Step 3.
- For PowerPoint, the app name must be spelt as follows:
Powerpoint
(i.e. only the first P is in uppercase, not both Ps) - To revert back to Dark Mode, follow the same steps but end the command at Step 3 with
no
instead ofyes
.