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Themes in Microsoft Office

The whole idea of Office Themes (since Office 2007) is to provide a coordinated look in Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint slides. Beyond that, the themes also influence objects such as tables and charts in these applications.

It is generally believed that themes will work in other Office applications apart from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in future versions of Microsoft Office. They already do work in the same way in Office 2008 for Mac.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 show the Flow theme that comes as part of Office 2007and 2008 applied to a sample Word document, Excel sheet, and a PowerPoint slide.

Theme applied to Word
Figure 1: A Microsoft Word document

Theme applied to Excel
Figure 2: A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet

Theme applied to PowerPoint
Figure 3: A Microsoft PowerPoint slide

Click any of the figures above to see a larger representation.

You'll observe that there's so much coordination and unity of look in each of three samples you saw.

That's not because the creators painstakingly made sure they used the same colors, effects, fonts, etc. but because all three were based on (or applied) the same Office Theme. It takes less than a minute to apply a new theme, and change the look of a set of documents -- and as you will learn soon, it's so easy -- almost as easy as batting your eyelid four times in succession!

So how do you bat your eyelid, er.... apply an Office Theme to an existing document? That's something I'll explore next.

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