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 contain content and design elements that you can use as a starting point when creating a presentation. PowerPoint
has a few built-in templates that you can use immediately, or you have the flexibility to create your own templates. When creating your own template, you can use design elements such as
theme colorsA set of colors that is used in a file. Theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects compose a theme.,
theme fontsA major and minor font that is applied to a style. Theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects compose a theme.,
theme effectsA set of visual attributes that is applied to elements in a file. Theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects compose a theme., and backgrounds to set your design. You can also define your own custom slide layouts, modify the slide master to add text or images that you want to appear on every slide. After you have the content and design elements the way you want them, save the file as a template so that you and others can use it as a starting point in the future.
| What is a theme |
Choose a theme to create a unified look for your presentation by using
colorsA set of colors that is used in a file. Theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects compose a theme.,
fontsA major and minor font that is applied to a style. Theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects compose a theme.,
effectsA set of visual attributes that is applied to elements in a file. Theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects compose a theme., backgrounds, and graphics that complement each other. When you create a new presentation, the default theme is automatically applied to your presentation, but you can change the theme at any time. You can use and share themes among the Office for Mac
applications. For example, you can save a theme that you created 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.
