In previous version of Microsoft’s Word you could set your default font on each new document you create to any font, like Times New Roman, and still be able to use Word’s Themes to change it to a different font. No longer with Word 2007, sniff!

So I can pander to those who don’t know what a Word Theme is or does, let me explain it before I reveal the sad truth further below…

Okay, so what’s a Word Document Theme? It’s maintaining a set of formatting options like: color, including page color, fonts and graphic or fill theme effects, throughout a Word document. So for example in Word 2007 I’ve typed in some text, coloring it with the default colors, adding some pictures or graphs and finally page background color (in Word 2007 /Page Layout tab>Page Background group & /Page Color (b)>any color).

Now let’s say I’m moody that day and I don’t like the “theme,” meaning all the formatting I just applied to my Word 2007 document as I mentioned above. So wouldn’t it be great if we had a magic button (you know where I’m going with this), that you could click and Glenda the good fairy would change it all for you. In fact, our good fairy has many themes to choose from :)

Word 2007 Theme Steps: /Page Layout tab>Themes group & /Themes (b)>view and hover of an array of themes… when you hover over one it will give you a preview in your document of the new pretty fonts, the fabulous colors and more!

“But mine doesn’t work!” You shout out, as it did in previous versions of Word. Word 2007 does not tolerate anyone applying a font directly, or uses one of the “Standard colors,” i.e. the primary colors at the bottom of the color picker. But then you laugh and promise yourself never to return to my blog because your thinking, what if I save this information as part of the style definition? I did this before in previous versions of Word and I could still use the Themes.

Didn’t you just read what I said? I didn’t understand it myself either so… Long blog short. I didn’t like Microsoft’s Word 2007 default font “Calibri.” I changed it so all my New Word Documents would have the default font of Times New Roman. That did it! My Themes lost all its functionality.
 

Kirt Kershaw is an authority on training Microsoft’s Office, his credentials are Certified as a Master Microsoft Office Specialist Instructor for Microsoft’s Office 2000, XP and 2003 (he’s listed on Certiport’s website), Microsoft’s Project XP certified, CompTIA’s A+ certified. In addition, he Participated in Certiport’s standard setting methodologies and procedures research project with Excel 2003 Expert exam materials.

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