
“They are the result of many iterations, a lot of research and testing, and plenty of late nights and weekends. Moreover, Friedman said that the refurbished icons will roll out across various platforms in upcoming months, starting with mobile and web. In the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box, click the Language Bar tab, and make sure that either. Under Switching input methods, select the Use the desktop language bar when it’s available check box, and then click Options. The letter that earlier occupied two-thirds of the icon and the symbol had one-third, it has now been changed to emphasize more on the symbol since it speaks more and the letter represent the tool itself. Under Clock, Language, and Region, click Change input methods. To show/expand only one comment, click the word bubble icon that appears to the. The letter-to-symbol ratio has also been changed. Comments can be added to a document that do not change the document. Through this, the team has tried to focus on the content instead of the specific format. 5 Now, Click on File explorer options from the search result.

#Microsoft word icon change windows#
Search File explorer options from Windows search. In the Run window, type temp and then hit Enter. For instance, the earlier MS Word and MS Excel icons contained a document outline and spreadsheet outline respectively, but in the new icons, there are lines of text for Word and individual cells for Excel. Press Windows key+R to launch Run window. The new icons also removed the tool formatting. This also gives depth and 3D-look to the icons. The letter and the symbol in the icons have been separated, creating two panels: one for letter and one for the symbol. Now that we have established the system we will start to scale it across all of Microsoft.”Īs described by Friedman, the colors have been changed to be ‘bolder, lighter, and friendlier’, and portray connections within each app’s symbol and the collective suite. “It is a huge undertaking to build a common system and design 10 icons at the same time.

The head of Office design at Microsoft, Jon Friedman announcing in his blog post about the major icon redesign.
#Microsoft word icon change for windows 10#
Icons of Microsoft Office for Windows 10 have been the same since 2013, however, this is about to change as Microsoft recently announced a new icon design for Office 365.
