You have choices when you want to enhance the appearance of your document quickly. You can start creating a document by using a template, or you can apply themes and, if you're in Word, you can apply styles.
 | What is a template |
Templates are files that help you design interesting, compelling, and professional-looking documents. They contain content and design elements that you can use as a starting point when creating a document. All the formatting is complete; you add what you want to them.
Examples are resumes, invitations, and newsletters.
| What is a theme |
To give your document a designer-quality look — a look with coordinating
colorsA set of colors that is used in a file. Theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects compose a theme.
and
fontsA major and minor font that is applied to a style. Theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects compose a theme.
— you'll want to apply a theme. You can use and share themes among the Office for Mac
applications that support themes, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. For example, you can create or customize a theme in PowerPoint, and then apply it to a Word
document or Excel
sheet. That way, all of your related business documents have a similar look and feel.
| What are Word styles |
Themes provide a quick way to change the overall color and fonts. If you want to change text formatting quickly, Word stylesA combination of formatting properties — such as font, font size, and paragraph indentation — that you name and save as a set. When you apply a style to selected text, all the formatting properties in that style are applied.
are the most effective tool. After you apply a style to different sections of text in your document, you can change the formatting of this text simply by changing the style. Word
includes many types of styles, some of which can be used to create reference tables in Word. For example, the Heading style, which is used to create a Table of Contents.
