Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step

Practice Applying Themes and Color Schemes

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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In PowerPoint, theme thumbnails are also shown in the Elements Gallery.

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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.

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The document opens in Publishing Layout view because it is a Word ...