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Change Styles vs Themes
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 |
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