Totally new icons for MS Office apps are rolling out

[shmu26]

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18117580/microsoft-office-new-icons-2018-design-features

Microsoft is modernizing its Office icons as part of a broader focus on design for its various Office apps. It’s the first time the Office icons have changed in five years, and they’re designed to be more simple and modern to span across multiple devices and platforms. Office now exists on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, and Microsoft has been building a single core codebase to make rapid monthly improvements to the apps. These icons are designed to reflect how Office has changed recently, with new AI features, more collaborative features, and its platform independence for key apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

The new icons deemphasize the letter for each Office app, but still manage to look familiar. “Our design solution was to de-couple the letter and the symbol from the icons, essentially creating two panels (one for the letter and one for the symbol) that we can pair or separate,” explains Jon Friedman, partner director of design at Microsoft. “This allows us to maintain familiarity while still emphasizing simplicity when inside the app.”

Microsoft’s new Office icons are part of a bigger design overhaul

A new modern look

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[Ink]

OneNote for Windows 10 has already been updated to the new icon, just waiting for the Office 365 apps to refresh their icons. Also noticed OneDrive and Outlook for iOS/Android have the icons for a while now.

 

[mlnevese]

Mine are already using the new icons. It'll take some used to but soon I know I won't even notice

 

[Ink]

@mlnevese I just updated to Version 1904 (Build 11601.20144), I see most of the new icons now.

 

[eonline]

This is what a Word file looks like on the desktop. Regards!

 

[Bill K]

Anyone know if these new icons will appear in Office 2016 Professional Plus installations, or only online versions like Office 365. TIA!

 

[Ink]

Anyone know if these new icons will appear in Office 2016 Professional Plus installations, or only online versions like Office 365. TIA!

The new icons are for the latest releases of Office 365. - See #10

You can still use Office 365 without an Internet connection, with a valid Microsoft account with an active subscription.

 

[shmu26]

The new icons are for the latest releases of Office 365.

You can still use Office 365 without an Internet connection, with a valid Microsoft account with an active subscription.

But Office 365, as it is a subscription, needs to connect to internet once every 30 days, for licencing reasons.

 

[blackice]

I really like the new icons. I use Libre Office, so I won’t get to seee them unless I’m using my wife’s laptop. But, they are slick.

 

[total]

Anyone know if these new icons will appear in Office 2016 Professional Plus installations, or only online versions like Office 365. TIA!

yes, these new icons will appeared in Office 2016 Professional Plus

 

[Ink]

But Office 365, as it is a subscription, needs to connect to internet once every 30 days, for licencing reasons.

Obviously, but you can still use Office 365 without an Internet connection. Most people think of Office 365 as online only software.

 

[Local Host]

yes, these new icons will appeared in Office 2016 Professional Plus

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In the case of Office 2016, that is only true for the C2R versions.

As for Office 2019 since it only has C2R versions, everyone should be getting the new icons over the coming days.