Professional SharePoint® 2010 Branding and User Interface Design

SharePoint 2010 Themes

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Notice that there are options to set both the Heading and Body font and that the selections

include many of the fonts installed on the client computer. Because these fonts will be used

in SharePoint and loaded from an Internet browser, it is best practice to pick fonts that are

common across multiple operating systems (such as Verdana, Arial, and Times). Figure 5-30

shows the Create New Theme Fonts dialog.

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5. After selecting the two fonts, click Save.

6. Up until now, your selections were being saved in the local PowerPoint fi le. To export the

theme for use in SharePoint, click the small “more” button (the downward-pointing arrow)

on the right side of the Themes section of the Design tab in the ribbon (see Figure 5-31).

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7. At the bottom of the All Themes dialog, shown in Figure 5-32, click Save Current Theme,

select a location, name it demo.thmx, and click Save. This saves the

.THMX fi le so that it can

be used in SharePoint.

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8. Open a SharePoint 2010 site in a browser, log in, and click Site Actions ➪ Site

Settings ➪ Galleries ➪ Themes. This will load the document library view of the ...