It can easily be turned off using the Coming Soon feature, located in the top right corner of the menu. This visual refresh will be automatically available to any Office Insiders running Beta Channel builds. We aligned this visual refresh with the design of Windows 11 to provide seamless experiences on your PC.

With this update, we deliver an intuitive, coherent, and familiar user interface, using the Fluent Design principles, across all your applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Project, Publisher, and Visio. This Office visual refresh is based on feedback from customers who asked for a more natural and consistent experience within and between your applications, specifically on Windows. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows 11 In alignment with this release, we are also releasing an Office visual refresh that will shine on the new Windows 11 OS, but will also be available to anyone using Windows 10. Visual refreshĪs announced last week, the newly released Windows 11 OS will be available this week to Dev Channel users in the Windows Insiders program, and offer a new, fresh user experience.

This visual update delivers a simple and more coherent experience across the Office apps you depend on, so that you can focus on your work more easily. I am delighted to share with you the visual refresh of the Office desktop apps for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Hi, Office Insiders! I’m Kori Loomis, a Program Manager on the Office Experience team.

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