Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Themes Changin

You can further refine the look of the styles in your document switching out the fonts or colors used by selecting new sets from the Change Styles menu. For longer, printed documents, you may prefer to use Cambria rather than Calibri as your body font because fonts like Cambria (called Serif fonts) make printed documents more readable. The default font pair is at the top of the menu (Cambria/Calibri) and the reverse usage (Calibri/Cambria) is located about halfway down. With the choices provided in the product, there are several hundred combinations available. The following documents use the same style set but the font and colors have been changed. Font and color are both elements of a document theme. You can change the entire theme using the control on the Page Layout tab. One of the other places where themes have greatly changed what you see in Word is in two of the most commonly used formatting controls—the font picker and the color picker. Now,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, in both,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, the top entries give you choices that are "theme-aware," meaning that if you apply these choices to your text and then change your themes,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, the fonts and colors used can be updated. Rather than defining the heading as "blue," we define it as using theme color 2. You can see the difference between theme-aware and standard colors by looking at the two sections of the color picker as you experiment with changing themes. The same color picker is used for font color,Microsoft Office Professional 2007, borders,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, shading, and formatting the look of many other objects within Word. The following image shows the color picker with two different themes (the Office default on the left and Verve on the right). The purpose of a theme is to allow changing the fonts or colors in a consistent way across a document without having to redefine the individual styles. This functionality is lost when you apply a font directly or use one of the Standard colors from the bottom of the color picker, even if you save that information as part of the style definition. Instead of the definitions saying "use the first theme color," the definition states "use color X." We refer to this as the document no longer being "theme-aware;" however, the use of styles in the document has not changed. You should be aware that this is definitely a 2007 feature; saving to an older format removes the theme references. Stuart J Stuple <div