[Tony Jollans]

Individual Styles can reference Theme settings. If they do, and the theme is
changed, the styles will immediately reflect the change. If you change the
style to not use theme values then changes in the theme will no longer
affect document elements in the style.

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Office_user" wrote in message
...
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

[Office_user]

Thanks a lot Tony. But what I really don't understand is the difference
between applying different style colors, fonts, sets using the
"HomeStylesChange Style" command, and doing that through the Themes group
commands. In other words.. why are they separated as TWO different features,
although they result in the same effects?

Thank you for your concern

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

Individual Styles can reference Theme settings. If they do, and the theme is
changed, the styles will immediately reflect the change. If you change the
style to not use theme values then changes in the theme will no longer
affect document elements in the style.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Office_user" wrote in message
...
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

[Tony Jollans]

They may give the same effect with a single change because there is a
relationship between the two, but if you change the style (rather than the
theme) then you break that relationship and later theme changes will no
longer affect the styles.

When you change a Theme it may affect many styles all at once - all those
that are set to theme values. By changing a theme you can completely change
the look of a document. Themes are also a common feature across various
Office 2007 applications so that consistent changes can be easily made to
the appearance of many documents, presentations, etc.

As soon as you start setting styles to non-theme elements they are
effectively hard coded and stand-alone and any future changes must be
explicitly made to each such style.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Office_user" wrote in message
...
Thanks a lot Tony. But what I really don't understand is the difference
between applying different style colors, fonts, sets using the
"HomeStylesChange Style" command, and doing that through the Themes
group
commands. In other words.. why are they separated as TWO different
features,
although they result in the same effects?

Thank you for your concern

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

Individual Styles can reference Theme settings. If they do, and the theme
is
changed, the styles will immediately reflect the change. If you change
the
style to not use theme values then changes in the theme will no longer
affect document elements in the style.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Office_user" wrote in message
...
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