Where can I find the below setting when I'm in the "New Outlook" mode: If you prefer, you can disable dark mode so that the message window is always white when using the black theme. The icons to switch dark mode on or off are disabled when you disable dark mode. In Outlook, go to File > Options . On the General page, look for Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office . Set the Office Theme to Black and select the check box next to Never change the message background color . Select OK . Thx

Man this is SO stupid. I use a Mac and on the new Outlook for Mac when you click the sun to say switch to light background, it does it for ALL emails moving forward. Yet the new Outlook on Windows makes you do it every time. It's SO frustrating.

The "Options" tab is inexplicably at the bottom of the screen. Always great to have two different places to look when you click on a tab. (sarcasm)

+1 for restoring the " Never change the message background color " in New version of Outlook. This sort of feature should not be abandoned by a software upgrade. While my eyes appreciate dark mode in most apps, I need the reading pane of email to remain white. This was a simple checkbox next to the theme in previous version of Outlook. The new version lets you change reading pane background one message at a time, but the selection does not stick. I'd be fine with the option as-is if it stayed in desired state until clicked again.

Please bring back the functionality for when in Dark Mode, keep message pain white.

New Outlook mode - Light/Dark background setting

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Where can I find the below setting when I'm in the "New Outlook" mode:

If you prefer, you can disable dark mode so that the message window is always white when using the black theme. The icons to switch dark mode on or off are disabled when you disable dark mode.

In Outlook, go to File > Options.
On the General page, look for Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office.
Set the Office Theme to Black and select the check box next to Never change the message background color.
Select OK.

Thx

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2024-04-28T16:19:01+00:00

Man this is SO stupid. I use a Mac and on the new Outlook for Mac when you click the sun to say switch to light background, it does it for ALL emails moving forward. Yet the new Outlook on Windows makes you do it every time. It's SO frustrating.
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2024-05-12T15:31:38+00:00

The "Options" tab is inexplicably at the bottom of the screen. Always great to have two different places to look when you click on a tab. (sarcasm)
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2024-05-29T14:28:39+00:00

+1 for restoring the "Never change the message background color" in New version of Outlook. This sort of feature should not be abandoned by a software upgrade. While my eyes appreciate dark mode in most apps, I need the reading pane of email to remain white. This was a simple checkbox next to the theme in previous version of Outlook. The new version lets you change reading pane background one message at a time, but the selection does not stick. I'd be fine with the option as-is if it stayed in desired state until clicked again.
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2024-06-13T14:52:06+00:00

Please bring back the functionality for when in Dark Mode, keep message pain white.
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