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Default Change Styles vs Themes

Hi Aeneas,

Thanks a lot for your precious effort. However, I think that the advantage
of combinations variety can be achieved without separating the two features.
I mean if the Style Set property moved to be included in the Themes commands
group, we will have the same result using just one group of commands.
Moreover, the Change Styles command will be then a duplication of the same
feature.

What do you think?


"Aeneas" wrote:


Some random thoughts:

You cannot enter text in a default document without its formatting being
affected by the active document theme (one and only one active; €śOffice€ť is
the default) and the active Quick Style set (one and only one active; €śWord
2007€ť is the default) nor can you enter graphics without its formatting being
affected by the active document theme and typically a Quick Style appropriate
to that type of graphic (picture, shape, SmartArt, chart, text box, WordArt)

Document Themes:
Document themes are 20 professionally-designed, named COLLECTIONS of
formatting settings for both text (principally fonts, font color and the
colors for borders and shading for selections of text, paragraphs and tables
and banding for tables) and graphics (colors, outline, fill and special
effects) that apply a professional-looking, aesthetically-appealing design to
all types of text and graphics in an entire document
Each default document theme applies an a TRIO of COLLECTIONS of formatting
settings (one set of theme colors, one set of theme fonts and one set of
theme effects)
Sets of theme colors €“ specify a named color scheme (not a single color)
that affects font colors, borders and shading as well as the outline color
and fill color for graphics; there are 20 available named sets of theme
colors with the same name as the document theme plus 1 set (grayscale) to
total 21 sets
Sets of theme fonts €“ specify for the entire document the placeholder font
pair (+Body and +Headings) that determines the font of the Normal style,
heading styles and nearly all other paragraph styles, linked styles and
character styles via inheritance from the Normal style; the font pair is the
same for a given document theme no matter which Quick Style set is active
unless you intentionally change the font pair; there are 23 available named
sets of theme fonts with the same name as the document theme for 20 of these
sets
Sets of theme effects €“ specify for graphics only the outline effects,
fill effects and special effects such as shadow and 3-D effects; there are 20
available named sets of theme effects with the same name as the document theme

One set from each of the three types of sets can be mixed and matched to
create thousands of different combinations (21 sets of theme colors x 23 sets
of Theme Fonts x 20 sets of Theme Effects = 9,660)
When combined with the 11 available Quick Style sets, there are over 100,000
available combinations
Moreover, each of the theme sets can be customized and saved in a
user-defined document theme that can be used in other documents

Quick Style Sets
The power of document themes is also markedly increased when combined with
the power of the 11 built-in Quick Style sets (paragraph styles including
most types of list styles, linked styles and character styles only) and Table
Quick Styles and graphics Quick Styles which work €śhand and glove€ť with
document themes
The settings in each document theme for font and color are propagated
through all 11 different types of Quick Styles; the actual number of each
type of Quick Styles is 30 or more for each document theme; for selections of
text and paragraphs combined, there are 25 times 11 Quick Styles available in
the 11 Quick Style sets
Those Quick Styles update their fonts and/or colors (theme colors only)
and/or effects (graphics only); every different document theme effectively
creating a brand new set of 30+ Quick Styles

Changing the document theme will also change directly formatted colors
chosen from any named color slot in a color picker; it does not, however,
affect standard colors
Hence, when you apply a different document theme or theme color scheme, the
font colors, border colors or shading color of text to which these styles
have been applied will change.




"Office_user" wrote:

In Word 2007, I want to know what is the difference between the Change
Styles property and the Themes property. It seems like both of them have the
same effect on the document contents.

Thanks