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Word 2007 Theme effects
Making changes to the effects for a theme seems to do absolutely nothing.
Applying themes in general seems to do nothing. Am I missing something? -- MPS |
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Word 2007 Theme effects
What effects do you have in your document that you are expecting to change?
More generally, if changing Themes does nothing at all, I suspect you do not have, or are not using, Styles set to use Themes. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... Making changes to the effects for a theme seems to do absolutely nothing. Applying themes in general seems to do nothing. Am I missing something? -- MPS |
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Word 2007 Theme effects
To answer your question, I had some SmartArt, some WordArt and a Chart. I
also expected some background changes. I did find out that I had not saved my document yet and once I saved it as a 2007 DOCX, things worked better but not the WordArt or the background. I'm not following your comment about Styles and Themes. Styles are on the Home tab and Themes are on the Page Layout tab. What does one have to do with the other? -- MPS "Tony Jollans" wrote: What effects do you have in your document that you are expecting to change? More generally, if changing Themes does nothing at all, I suspect you do not have, or are not using, Styles set to use Themes. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... Making changes to the effects for a theme seems to do absolutely nothing. Applying themes in general seems to do nothing. Am I missing something? -- MPS |
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Word 2007 Theme effects
A Theme stands beside a Document and elements from the Theme can be used to
format elements in the Document either in Styles or in direct formatting (for example look at the Font Color Button - the matrix at the top of the dropdown shows Theme colours, the options below show non-Theme options). If you use Theme elements they become references to Theme elements and will change when you change the Theme; if you use non-Theme elements they are fixed formatting that do not use Themes and won't change. Off the top of my head I'm not sure what Theme Effects affect - not much in Word, I think, they are more relevant in PowerPoint. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... To answer your question, I had some SmartArt, some WordArt and a Chart. I also expected some background changes. I did find out that I had not saved my document yet and once I saved it as a 2007 DOCX, things worked better but not the WordArt or the background. I'm not following your comment about Styles and Themes. Styles are on the Home tab and Themes are on the Page Layout tab. What does one have to do with the other? -- MPS "Tony Jollans" wrote: What effects do you have in your document that you are expecting to change? More generally, if changing Themes does nothing at all, I suspect you do not have, or are not using, Styles set to use Themes. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... Making changes to the effects for a theme seems to do absolutely nothing. Applying themes in general seems to do nothing. Am I missing something? -- MPS |
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Word 2007 Theme effects
Thanks! That makes more sense now to me. If I want something to change with
themes, I have to make sure the fill color is from a theme. Still bothered with theme effects, though. It just doesn't seem to have much effect on anything whether in Word or in PowerPoint. -- MPS "Tony Jollans" wrote: A Theme stands beside a Document and elements from the Theme can be used to format elements in the Document either in Styles or in direct formatting (for example look at the Font Color Button - the matrix at the top of the dropdown shows Theme colours, the options below show non-Theme options). If you use Theme elements they become references to Theme elements and will change when you change the Theme; if you use non-Theme elements they are fixed formatting that do not use Themes and won't change. Off the top of my head I'm not sure what Theme Effects affect - not much in Word, I think, they are more relevant in PowerPoint. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... To answer your question, I had some SmartArt, some WordArt and a Chart. I also expected some background changes. I did find out that I had not saved my document yet and once I saved it as a 2007 DOCX, things worked better but not the WordArt or the background. I'm not following your comment about Styles and Themes. Styles are on the Home tab and Themes are on the Page Layout tab. What does one have to do with the other? -- MPS "Tony Jollans" wrote: What effects do you have in your document that you are expecting to change? More generally, if changing Themes does nothing at all, I suspect you do not have, or are not using, Styles set to use Themes. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... Making changes to the effects for a theme seems to do absolutely nothing. Applying themes in general seems to do nothing. Am I missing something? -- MPS |
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Word 2007 Theme effects
Theme Effects should affect SmartArt, and, I think, Charts, but not WordArt,
and I'm not clear on how much of them do anything outside PowerPoint. The effects are generally small - and may depend on the Theme in use. I do tend to agree with you that they don't really seem worth the effort - maybe custom effects can be better but you can't create them from within Office. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... Thanks! That makes more sense now to me. If I want something to change with themes, I have to make sure the fill color is from a theme. Still bothered with theme effects, though. It just doesn't seem to have much effect on anything whether in Word or in PowerPoint. -- MPS "Tony Jollans" wrote: A Theme stands beside a Document and elements from the Theme can be used to format elements in the Document either in Styles or in direct formatting (for example look at the Font Color Button - the matrix at the top of the dropdown shows Theme colours, the options below show non-Theme options). If you use Theme elements they become references to Theme elements and will change when you change the Theme; if you use non-Theme elements they are fixed formatting that do not use Themes and won't change. Off the top of my head I'm not sure what Theme Effects affect - not much in Word, I think, they are more relevant in PowerPoint. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... To answer your question, I had some SmartArt, some WordArt and a Chart. I also expected some background changes. I did find out that I had not saved my document yet and once I saved it as a 2007 DOCX, things worked better but not the WordArt or the background. I'm not following your comment about Styles and Themes. Styles are on the Home tab and Themes are on the Page Layout tab. What does one have to do with the other? -- MPS "Tony Jollans" wrote: What effects do you have in your document that you are expecting to change? More generally, if changing Themes does nothing at all, I suspect you do not have, or are not using, Styles set to use Themes. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... Making changes to the effects for a theme seems to do absolutely nothing. Applying themes in general seems to do nothing. Am I missing something? -- MPS |
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Word 2007 Theme effects
I did a bit of testing on this question and here's what I've found so far:
To see a theme effect on a smart art object, insert the object into your Word docx and do NOT apply any direct formatting to it. With the smart art object selected, go to the design tab and in the Smart Art styles gallery click on a style that has some effects, such as the one named Moderate Effect. Now go back to the page layout tab and try different theme effects from the theme effects gallery. You should see significant differences between the effect choices now. As far as I can tell Theme Effects have no effect on Shapes, Wordart or other objects. Also, if you apply any direct formatting to a smart art object rather than applying a style from the gallery, theme effects are basically disabled for that object. I think the reason that most people see almost no changes to smart art objects when they change the theme effects is because they are using the default smart art style-simple fill-which has almost no effects to change. "Tony Jollans" wrote: Theme Effects should affect SmartArt, and, I think, Charts, but not WordArt, and I'm not clear on how much of them do anything outside PowerPoint. The effects are generally small - and may depend on the Theme in use. I do tend to agree with you that they don't really seem worth the effort - maybe custom effects can be better but you can't create them from within Office. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... Thanks! That makes more sense now to me. If I want something to change with themes, I have to make sure the fill color is from a theme. Still bothered with theme effects, though. It just doesn't seem to have much effect on anything whether in Word or in PowerPoint. -- MPS "Tony Jollans" wrote: A Theme stands beside a Document and elements from the Theme can be used to format elements in the Document either in Styles or in direct formatting (for example look at the Font Color Button - the matrix at the top of the dropdown shows Theme colours, the options below show non-Theme options). If you use Theme elements they become references to Theme elements and will change when you change the Theme; if you use non-Theme elements they are fixed formatting that do not use Themes and won't change. Off the top of my head I'm not sure what Theme Effects affect - not much in Word, I think, they are more relevant in PowerPoint. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... To answer your question, I had some SmartArt, some WordArt and a Chart. I also expected some background changes. I did find out that I had not saved my document yet and once I saved it as a 2007 DOCX, things worked better but not the WordArt or the background. I'm not following your comment about Styles and Themes. Styles are on the Home tab and Themes are on the Page Layout tab. What does one have to do with the other? -- MPS "Tony Jollans" wrote: What effects do you have in your document that you are expecting to change? More generally, if changing Themes does nothing at all, I suspect you do not have, or are not using, Styles set to use Themes. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "MikeS" wrote in message ... Making changes to the effects for a theme seems to do absolutely nothing. Applying themes in general seems to do nothing. Am I missing something? -- MPS |
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