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Saving your eyes with dark mode

Saving your eyes with dark mode

- [Instructor] To better tolerate working before a computer screen, consider activating the dark mode feature in Windows 10. So bring up the Settings app. You can choose its icon from the Start button menu, or press the Windows and I keyboard shortcut. Choose Personalization, Colors, and then for the default app mode, choose Dark. Windows apps change, replacing most of the white background with black, which can really be easy on the eyes. Now, some programs may ignore this setting completely, or they may offer their own dark mode-like feature. Here in Excel, as well as in other Microsoft Office applications, you must make this change in this manner. From the File tab, choose Options, and in the Options dialogue box, General tab, for the Office theme, choose Black. Click Ok. This change affects all your Office applications, and further, if you're using Microsoft Office 365, it's going to affect them on other systems as well. While a program's entire window may not go dark, I believe…

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