This browser is no longer supported.
Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(128, 8%, 22%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EA%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Hello,
Please forgive me if this has been asked before; I have browsed similar topics but was unable to find an answer.
I have created a template with different paragraph styles; I have to write several documents based on this template, but I would like each document to have a different set of colours. I thought about customising and saving different sets would do the trick, and I reached a window where I could change Accents 1-6 and Hyperlinks. The thing is, there are colours I do not want to change across documents (i.e. figure captions).
Could anyone tell me what Accents 1-6 refer to, so that I can always set the one corresponding to figure captions to the same colour?
Thank you.
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.
Answer accepted by question author
Theme colors are poorly documented, but you get some idea of the accent colors if you click Design > Colors > Customize Colors; this will display the Create New Theme Colors dialog box (see screen shot below).
Answer accepted by question author
Here is my writing on Themes.
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm#Themes
Theme colors are generally used in the Styles in \[Quick\] Style Sets which are generally the compsoed of styles that appear in the Styles Gallery. Your own custom styles can also use theme colors. If so, they will be designated in the Style definition, regardless of whether or not they appear in the Gallery.
If you use **Shift+F1** to Reveal Formatting and check the box to show style source, you can see which Theme Color is being used.
(The screenshot shows a Theme Color applied as Direct Formatting rather than through a style, but the idea is the same.)
Thanks Charles, it wasn't until now that I finally understood what you meant, although it was after some trial and error.
The colour palette that appears when you try to change text colour is the same than what you see when trying to change theme colours:
Theme colours Dark and Light 1 to 2 are marked as D/L 1-2; Accents 1-6 are A1-A6 on the right picture.
Changing, say, Accent 1 to cyan means that the first square from A1 will be your selected colour, and the row below will be comprised of different shades of cyan.
If your Title was Orange from the 3rd square in A2, and you change Accent 2 theme colour to purple, your Title colour will change to the 3rd shade of purple.
I hope I could make this understandable to anyone with the same inquiry.
Thank you both!
Whoops, my mistake.
Well, glad to be of help! Not everyday can you say you helped an expert add something to their guide!
Thanks for sharing, your are correct except that you have the D and L reversed in your palette.
Here is mine (with different colors).
The theme colors are the top row and the lower ones are shading/tinting variants. I've added this the information my page on styles has about Themes. Again, thank you.