1. Accessibility Guide
  2. Enabling Accessibility for Smart View
  3. Using Microsoft Office Themes (Including Dark Theme)

Using Microsoft Office Themes (Including Dark Theme)

Starting in release 23.100, Oracle Smart View for Office supports the themes provided by Microsoft Office. In addition to the default Colorful theme, you can now apply the Dark Gray, Black, and White themes while working in Smart View.

Note:

  • Black theme is available only with a Microsoft Office 365 subscription.

  • Office themes are supported in Smart View and in its extensions from Microsoft Office 2016 onwards. Office themes are not supported on Office 2013.

Once applied, the background color and font color changes are seen for interface elements such as ribbons, Smart View panels and its menus, POV toolbar, formula bar, sheet tabs, and dialog boxes such as Comments, Adjust, Business Rules, Smart View Options, and so on. Office themes are also supported for the following extensions in Smart View:

  • Narrative Reporting extension
  • EPM Books extension
  • Oracle Journals for Financial Management
  • Oracle BI EE extension
  • Smart Query

To enable Office themes:

  1. In your Office application, click File and then click Options.
  2. In the General tab, under Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office section, select the required theme from the Office Themes list.

    Note:

    If you have enabled any system-level dark themes, then you can apply the same in your Office application by selecting the Use system setting option and use Smart View in a dark theme.
  3. Click OK.

Note the following considerations while using themes:

  • While switching between themes, the new theme gets applied immediately to all interface elements, except the Smart View panels and POV dialogs of active ad hoc and form sheets. You need to restart the Office application to apply the theme to the panels and POV dialogs on already opened Smart View files.
  • List view and tree view always retain the white background, irrespective of the theme applied.
  • Black theme cannot be fully applied to toolbars and menus in panels and dialog boxes. Instead, these appears with a gray background.
  • If high contrast is enabled at system level, then the Office theme is ignored.