About Styles, Themes, and Templates

You can begin with a Office 2007 Word template to create a document that has a prearranged look.Templates are useful when you have a form, for example, that you need to fill in. The template will be the blank form. A template can be anything that contains formatting or text or graphics that you want to reuse later. You can create a template that contains your letterhead and then begin with that template every time you write a business letter. The template keeps you from having to add your letterhead to the top of the document every time you write a letter, as you’d have to do if you began with a blank document.

A theme is a document-wide set of formats that complement one another.Themes include colors, fonts, and even lines and borders when appropriate.Suppose you sell two kinds of items on eBay: MP3 players and antiques. When you write a monthly newsletter that you send to your former buyers, you might want to use a modern theme for the MP3 buyers and a more traditional theme for your antiques clients. It doesn’t matter what your document says; the theme affects the overall look of your document.

You can apply a style to text within any document. For example, if you routinely use italicized, boldfaced text that is indented from surrounding paragraphs as you might do with a warning message that you add to documents you often write, a style enables you to apply that formatting before you type the warning or after you’ve completed typing it.

By using templates, themes, and styles, you reduce the amount of work you have to do to   Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Word create a document.