

If your users will be using the theme in PowerPoint, you'll want to load that application and adjust the theme settings there.) (For instance, PowerPoint includes a few theme-related settings that are not available through Word.

This means that you'll want to open those other applications on your system and make sure that the theme reflects everything you want it to reflect within those applications, as well as within Word. Thus, you could define a custom theme in Word and that theme will be available in other Office applications on your system, such as Excel and PowerPoint. Themes are used in all the applications in the Office suite.

(More on that in a moment.)īefore you pronounce your custom theme "ready for distribution," there is one thing you need to check. Instead, they are stored in their own special files. Unfortunately, custom themes are not stored in templates. She would like the new color theme to be transferred to others using the template (dotx) that they currently load in their templates folder but doesn't know how to go about it. Pauline wonders how she can transfer this new color theme to others. The new color palette successfully appears under "Font Color" on her PC. Pauline has used "Create New Theme Colors" to include eight of her company-approved colors in a theme.
