Microsoft Word 2010 - Illustrated
Unit G: Working with Themes and
Building Blocks
Objectives
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Apply quick styles to text
Apply a theme
Customize a theme
Insert a sidebar
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Objectives (continued)
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Insert Quick Parts
Add a cover page
Create building blocks
Insert building blocks
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Applying Quick Styles to Text
• A style is a set of format settings that
are named and stored together
• Quick Style sets are groups of
related styles designed to be used
together in a document
• Give documents a cohesive look
• Sets include styles for title, subtitle,
headings, body text, lists, quotes, and
other text elements
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Applying Quick Styles to Text
(continued)
Title style
applied
Subtitle
style
applied
and font
color
changed to
green
Heading 1
style
applied
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Applying Quick Styles to Text
(continued)
• Saving a document as a Web page:
• Use the Save As command to save a
document in HTML format
• Two options: Single File Web Page (.mht
or .mhtml) or Web Page (.htm or .html)
• Page is displayed in Web Layout view
• Unsupported formatting options (e.g.,
floating graphics) are converted to
similar supported formatting or are
removed
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Applying a Theme
• A theme is a set of unified design
elements
• E.g., colors, fonts for body text and
headings, and effects for graphics
• By default, the Office theme is used
• Use Themes command in Themes
group on Page Layout tab
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Applying a Theme (continued)
Austin
theme
Preview of
Austin
theme
applied to
document
Themes
gallery
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Applying a Theme (continued)
• Changing the default theme:
• Press [Ctrl][N], click Themes button
(Themes group, Page Layout tab), and
click theme to use as default
• Use buttons in Themes group to
customize theme settings before saving it
• Or, click Change Styles button (Styles
group, Home tab), and then use the Style
Set, Colors, and Fonts options
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Customizing a Theme
• Customize a theme by
• Changing its colors
• Selecting new fonts for headings and
body text
• Changing the effects
• Save customized theme as a new
theme
• Then, apply it to other documents
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Customizing a Theme (continued)
• Use the Create
New Theme
Colors and
Create New
Theme Fonts
dialog boxes to
save new sets
of colors and
fonts
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Customizing a Theme (continued)
Custom
theme in
the
Themes
gallery
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Inserting a Sidebar
• Building blocks are reusable pieces
of formatted content or document
parts that are stored in galleries
• E.g., headers & footers, cover pages,
and text boxes
• A sidebar is a text box positioned adjacent
to the document body
• A pull quote contains a quote or excerpt
from an article, formatted in a larger font
size and placed on the same page
• Use Text Box command (Insert tab)
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Inserting a Sidebar (continued)
Tiles
sidebar
Brown
shadow
color
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Text
pasted in
text box
and
formatted
Inserting a Sidebar (continued)
Text and
graphic from
file inserted
in sidebar
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Inserting Quick Parts
• Use Quick Parts to insert reusable
pieces of content into a document
• Fields: date, page numbers
• Document properties: document title,
author
• Building blocks
• Use Quick Parts command on Insert
tab or on Header & Footer Tools
Design tab
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Inserting Quick Parts
(continued)
• A property control is a content
controls that contains document
property information
• E.g. title, company, or author
• Assign or update document property
by:
• Typing directly in property control
• Typing in Document Properties Panel
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Inserting Quick Parts
(continued)
Title property
control
Title and
date in
header
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Adding a Cover Page
• Many predesigned cover pages
come with Word
• Designs range from conservative and
business-like to colorful and attentiongrabbing
• Each design includes placeholder text
and property controls that you can
replace with your own information
• Click Cover Page list arrow in Pages
group on Insert tab
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Adding a Cover Page
(continued)
Date, title, and
company are
automatically
entered
Author
property
control
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Creating Building Blocks
• Save content you want to reuse as a
building block in one of the galleries
• Use the Quick Parts command
• Select content, click the Quick Parts
button on the Insert tab, and click Save
Selection to Quick Part Gallery
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Creating Building Blocks
(continued)
• Use the Create New Building Block
dialog box to enter a name and
description for the item, and to
specify the gallery where you want it
to appear
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Creating Building Blocks
(continued)
• Add a
sidebar to
the Text
Box gallery
and create
a new
category
Sidebar in
Text Box
gallery
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Creating Building Blocks
(continued)
Quick Parts
gallery
ScreenTip
shows name
and
description
of item
Selected text
is added to
Quick Parts
gallery
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Creating Building Blocks
(continued)
• Renaming a building block and
editing other properties:
• Right-click the item in a gallery, and
click Edit Properties
• Modify Building Block dialog box opens
• Or, select the item in the Building
Blocks Organizer, and then click Edit
Properties
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Inserting Building Blocks
• You can insert a building block
directly from a gallery
• You can use the Building Blocks
Organizer to search for, organize,
and insert building blocks
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Inserting Building Blocks
(continued)
• Click the Quick Parts button in the
Text group (Insert tab) then click
Building Blocks Organizer
• The Building Blocks Organizer lists
all built-in and customized building
blocks from every gallery
• Sort, preview, insert, delete, and edit
properties of building blocks
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Inserting Building Blocks
(continued)
Building Blocks Organizer
Complete
list of
building
blocks
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Preview of
selected
building
block
Summary
• Themes provide coordinated fonts,
colors, and effects that you can apply
to a document in one easy step
• Building blocks offer preformatted
document parts to insert and
customize in a document
• E.g., sidebars, pull quotes, headers,
footers, cover pages, etc.
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