How to Change the Default Theme in Microsoft Word - Part 1
HOW TO CHANGE THE DEFAULT THEME IN A MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENT - PART 1
Hi, This is Vi Adkins of www.ForemostResumes.com. In this video tutorial I'm going to show how to change the theme of a Microsoft Word 2010 document and how to change the default theme and then change it back.
I have a new Word file open and I've inserted some placeholder text in the document. I'm going to select all of the text by holding down the Control key while pressing the A key on the keyboard. Then I'm going to copy the text to the clipboard by holding down the Control key while pressing the C key. Now, when I open a new document I can paste this placeholder text into it.
As you can see in the Home tab ribbon at the top of the screen, this document uses the Calibri font for the body text. So I can see what I'm doing with this file, I want to turn on the Show/Hide button in the Paragraph section of the Home tab ribbon. Now I can see the carridge returns. I've opened the Styles panel on the right side of the screen. To show you how to open the Styles panel, I'm going to close it and opening it again. To do that, go to the Styles section of the Home tab ribbon and click on the little angled down arrow in the bottom right hand corner of that ribbon section. That opens the Styles panel.
These Styles that you see listed in the Styles panel are determined by the theme of this document. What is the Theme for this document? To find out, go to the top of the page and click on the Page Layout tab. On the left side of the ribbon for that tab, you'll see a Themes button or tool. Select the down arrow of that tool and you see that the Office theme is selected. That means that this document is using the Office theme. The Office theme determines which fonts are used, which colors are used, which effects are used, and which styles are used.
Now, let's go ahead and change the theme to another Built-In theme. Click on the down arrow of the Themes tool in the ribbon and change the theme fo Aspect. Instantly, we see that the font size has changed. Going back to the Home tab ribbon you can see that the body text font is has been changed from Calibri to Verdana. To confirm that, go to the styles panel, click the down arrow by the Normal style and select Modify. In the Modify Style dialogue box you can see that Verdana is the Body text font used for this theme. Click OK to exit the dialogue box.
If I open a new document, will the theme be Office or Aspect? I paste my placeholder text into the new document, and I see from the Font section of the Home tab ribbon that Calibri is the font used for body text. Going to the Page Layout tab and clicking on the Themes tool down arrow, I see that the Office theme was automatically used as the theme for this new document.
Now close the new document without saving it.
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