In this exercise, you’ll change the theme applied to a document. Then you’ll change the color scheme of the theme in the current document.
We’ll work in a Word publication (the document type we discussed in "Work with Word Publications" in Chapter 4, but you can use similar techniques when working in a Word document, a PowerPoint presentation, or an Excel workbook.
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SET UP Open the FallNewsletter document located in the ~/Documents/Microsoft Press/2008OfficeMacSBS/WorkDocuments/ folder. Display the Document Theme panel of the Formatting Palette in the Toolbox.
On the View menu, click Navigation Pane.
The Navigation pane opens on the left side of the document window, displaying thumbnails of each page of this Word publication.
Scroll the Navigation pane to display the thumbnail of each of the four pages of the publication.
Note the colors used throughout the publication—primarily red, orange, and yellow.
Click the thumbnail of page 4.
Note the appearance of the text in the various text boxes.
In the Document Theme panel of the Formatting Palette, point to the thumbnail at the top of the theme gallery.
The ScreenTip that appears says Presentation22. This is not one of the standard Office themes; this publication was created from the Microsoft Project Gallery and uses a theme associated specifically with the publication.
Point to the Colors box, and then to the Fonts box.
The ScreenTips for both elements are Fall Newsletter, which is the name of the template this publication was created from.
In the Document Theme gallery, click the Advantage theme thumbnail (the second thumbnail in the first row of Office themes).
Word applies the Advantage theme to the publication. The colors of the heading text and background graphic on page 4 change, as do the colors shown on the page thumbnails in the Navigation pane.
Text In Overflow icons indicate that the text boxes they’re linked to contain more text than can be displayed. Because the fonts of the Advantage font scheme have wider characters, the placeholder text within some of the text boxes no longer fits.
Click the Fonts arrow, scroll the list, and then click the Infusion font scheme.
The publication fonts change, and the placeholder text now fits the text boxes.
Display page 1 of the publication.
Near the upper-left corner of the page, the word the is shown in orange. This is one of the accent colors of the Advantage theme’s color scheme.
Click the Colors arrow, scroll the list, and then click the Opulent color scheme.
The colors of the text and graphics change to match the new color scheme. Near the upper-left corner, the word the no longer stands out against its background.
Double-click in the text box containing the word the.
The insertion point appears in the text box, and the placeholder text disappears.
In the Font panel of the Formatting Palette, click the Font Color arrow.
The Font Color gallery expands to display the Theme Colors palette and the Standard Colors palette. In the Theme Colors palette displaying colors associated with the current document theme, the second color from the right (Accent 5) is selected as the color for content in the active text box.
In the Theme Colors palette, click the last color square in the fifth column (Accent 1, Darker 50%).
Click the publication page to apply the color. Then in the text box, type The.
The word appears in the newly selected color.
In the Colors list at the bottom of the Document Theme panel, select any other color scheme. Then with the word The selected, expand the Font Color gallery.
Although the color of the word changed, it is still the color scheme equivalent of the color you chose earlier—Accent 1, Darker 50%.
