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How to create a theme in Word for Mac

Anonymous
2019-08-09T03:20:12+00:00

I cannot figure out how to create a new theme for a company based on their brand colours and fonts in Word for Mac. 

I have all the fonts set up as styles and have used the colours throughout the document, but I need to be able to save all of these as a theme to send to my client. 

I have watched tutorials and read blog posts but cannot find a Word version that looks like mine or acts in the same way as mine. 

Please help!

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  1. Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP 435K Reputation points
    2019-08-09T12:40:44+00:00

    The most likely reason you're having a problem is that the sources you've consulted pertain to the Windows version of Office. The tools for creating Custom Themes in Mac Office have not yet been brought to the same level.

    In Word, Excel or PowerPoint you can select a set of Theme Fonts from the list of built-in Theme Fonts & you can select a Theme Colors set from the list of built-in Theme Colors then save that combination as a Custom Theme.

    Mac Office provides no UI method for constructing a set of Theme Fonts using fonts of your own choice, A customized set of Theme Fonts must be created in a Windows version then moved to the Mac or you need to construct the XML file yourself. To do the latter see this article by John Korchok:  XML Hacking: Font Themes

    Custom Theme Colors can be created only in PowerPoint. Once saved they are available in the other programs.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-08-09T03:37:37+00:00

    Hi Naval, where are you based?

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-08-09T03:25:21+00:00

    My name is Naval and I am an Independent Advisor. I would like to help you.

    Please use this article of Microsoft for Customize, save, and apply a theme in Word for Mac

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/custom...

    Hope this information helps. Please post if you need any further assistance.

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