Excel for Office 365 Word for Office 365 Excel 2019 Word 2019 Excel 2016 Word 2016 Excel 2013 Word 2013 Document themes make it easy to coordinate colors, fonts, and graphic formatting effects across your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents and update them quickly. You can change the entire theme or just customize theme fonts, colors, or effects. I want to Choose a standard color theme. On the Page Layout tab in Excel or the Design tab in Word, click Colors, and pick the color set you want. Tip: The first group of colors are the colors in the current theme. Create my own color theme. On the Page Layout tab in Excel or the Design tab in Word, click Colors, and then click Customize Colors.
Click the button next to the theme color you want to change (for example, Accent 1 or Hyperlink), and then pick a color under Theme Colors. To create your own color, click More Colors, and then pick a color on the Standard tab, or on the Custom tab. In the Sample pane, preview the changes that you made. Repeat this for all the colors you want to change. In the Name box, type a name for the new theme colors, and click Save. Tip: The top fonts are the fonts in the current theme. To create your own set of fonts, click Customize Fonts.
In the Create New Theme Fonts box, under the Heading font and Body font boxes, pick the fonts you want. In the Name box, enter a name, and click Save. Change theme effects Theme effects include shadows, reflections, lines, fills, and more. While you cannot create your own set of theme effects, you can choose a set of effects that work for your document.
Finding the right highlight color is tricky as text color does not always invert, and Word for Mac appears to overlay a shade of the system highlight color. So when in high-contrast mode a system highlight color that was good for the system was not clear enough in Word, and when it was clear enough for Word it was too strong for the system.
On the Page Layout tab in Excel or the Design tab in Word, click Effects. Select the set of effects that you want to use. Switch or remove a theme. To change themes, simply pick a different theme from the Themes menu. To return to the default theme, choose the Office theme.
To remove theme formatting from just a portion of your document, select the portion you want to change and change any formatting you like, such as font style, font size, color, etc. Save a custom theme for reuse Once you’ve made changes to your theme, you can save it to use again. On the Page Layout tab in Excel or the Design tab in Word, click Themes Save Current Theme. In the File name box, enter a name for the theme, and click Save. Note: The theme is saved as a.thmx file in the Document Themes folder on your local drive and is automatically added to the list of custom themes that appear when you click Themes.
Make my changes the new default theme After, you can set it so it’s used for all new documents. Excel Apply your custom theme to a blank workbook and then named Book.xltx.
Word. On the Design tab, click Set as Default. More about themes A document theme is a unique set of colors, fonts, and effects. Themes are shared across Office programs so that all your Office documents can have the same, uniform look. You can also. The Office theme is the color scheme for your entire Office program, while document themes are more specific (they show up in individual Word documents or Excel spreadsheets). In addition, you can add a pattern to your Office program,.
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Office 2007 introduced the concept of themes to Excel and Word. If someone is designing a report in both Word and Excel, they could choose the identical theme from both Word and Excel to ensure that the documents have the same look and feel. The Office 2007 Page Layout tab offered 20 built-in themes.
Office 2010 adds a dozen more. Rather than use one of the built-in themes, you can easily design a theme and distribute it to all of your Office users. A theme is comprised of 6 accent colors, a headline font, a body font, and a set of effects. To create a new theme, you should first choose a set of effects. Using the 2007 or 2010 version of Word or Excel, go to the Page Layout tab of the ribbon. Open the Effects dropdown near the left side of the ribbon.
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This dropdown offers many thumbnails, which you will never understand unless you know the code. Each thumbnail shows a circle, an arrow, and a rectangle. Many Office galleries such as the Shape effects gallery offers six rows of choices.
The effects move from 'Simple' to 'Moderate' to 'Intense' as you move to lower rows in the gallery. The effect applied to the circle in the thumbnail is used for 'Simple' effects. The effect applied to the arrow is used for 'Moderate' effects. The effect applied to the rectangle is used for 'Intense' effects.
Armed with this information, you can figure out that the Civic theme is going to use a dotted line for simple effects and that Opulent is going to use a glass effect for intense effects. You can't mix and match here, so choose one and move on.
Next, you have to choose two fonts. Open the Fonts dropdown and choose Create New Theme Fonts from the bottom of the dropdown. Choose a Heading font and a Body font. The Body font should be something easily readable. If you happen to have a custom font in use that mirrors your company logo, that might be a good choice for the Heading font. Choosing colors is the hardest process. Open the Colors dropdown and choose Create New Theme Colors.
The first four colors are used for Text on either light or dark backgrounds. It is fine to leave those as black, white, blue and grey. The next six colors are the important ones, as they are used for chart fills, SmartArt themes, fill color choices and so on. Someone in your marketing department can provide the RGB values for the colors used in the company logo. These can be the first 2 or 3 colors in the theme.
Then, use a tool such as ColorSchemer.com to find complementary colors for the logo colors. Once you have the RGB codes for the six colors, open each color dropdown and choose More Colors. Dial up the correct Red, Green, and Blue colors using the Spin Button. At the bottom of the Create New Theme Colors dialog, there is a Name box. Give your theme a name, such as OurCo Theme. To combine the Effects, Fonts, and Colors, open the Themes dropdown and choose Save Current Theme.
Use a name such as OurCo.thmx. This tiny file is stored in%AppData% Microsoft Templates Document Themes. To provide the theme to other users, copy the.thmx file to the same folder on each PC.