Office 2008 Significant Features / Document Themes
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One other helpful new feature that you'll find in Office 2008 is the ability to make sweeping changes throughout documents or throughout slides with document themes. And this again I think will come in handy mostly in your use of Word and your use of PowerPoint. You can also use it in Excel and there's really no equivalent item for the use of themes when you're talking about Entourage. Entourage is just a separate type of beast because it manages so many different pieces of information. But when we're dealing with a Word document, for example, the way to utilize a theme is to open up the toolbox. Now, the toolbox, you may, if you've used previous versions of Office for the Macintosh, you may know it as the Formatting Palette, but now it's the toolbox which includes a formatting palette, Object Palette, Scrapbook, Reference Tools and so on and we'll deal with all of these items throughout the course of this tutorial. But for now, all we need to know is just to open the toolbox and we do by opening any one of these palettes. So you can use the View menu as you see here. You can also use the standard toolbar. It should show up somewhere over here depending on your resolution and if you don't see it, click on the little chevron on the right and open up your toolbox as you can see here. Now, in this toolbox, click on the formatting palette, not the Object Palette. You won't see it there. Not the citations or the Scrapbook. You won't see it there either. But again, make sure you have the Formatting Palette chosen and then in this list of fonts and styles and text boxes, down towards the bottom you'll see your document themes that you can use. And all you have to do to change your document theme is click on a different theme. Now, what's going to happen is that all of the text in your document will change and be reflective of the breeze theme or the aspect theme or the office theme or the advantage theme. So that makes a pretty significant change here and then you can see the fonts that are used and the color palette that is used. So this one that I just chose, apex, uses Lucinda sans, book Antigua and this color palette which again you can change if you want to. So you could mix and match your themes and you can create your own custom themes, which we'll look at later on down the road in this tutorial. So again, you can make a change with one click and then change your colors. I like the capital font, but I'm going to use the breeze color palette and now I've just created, as I make the Formatting Palette go away or technically speaking, the toolbox go away, I've just quickly created a new document or an existing document. I've taken and I've experimented with some different looks and feels with different color of the text and different font that the text uses. The equivalent of that in the PowerPoint application is slide themes and again, we've taken a quick look at this already when we introduced the gallery because with the gallery, one of the elements in the elements gallery are slide themes and again, we can use this to quickly, with a single click, make sweeping changes throughout our PowerPoint document similar to what you saw with our Word document.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33888 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-74-7 |
| Release Date: | 2008-06-30 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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