Office 2016 colour palette for company branding

Question

Hi,
I need to apply a company wide branding update, adjusting the colour palette for our office products; Word, Powerpoint and Excel.

I can manually adjust my settings, i.e. in Word got through Design> Colours>Customise colours.

As I want to do this company wide, can the colour palette changes be done through GPO? or would I need to create a template based on the colour scheme and provide that via GPO or even send that template to end users and provide them instructions on how to implement?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

@Tuneap1st ,
Welcome to Q&A forum!

Based on my research and testing, you may not be able to achieve this through GPO.

I would suggest you put the custom colors into a theme and export it, then distribute the theme file( .thmx) into the Document Themes path of other users.

• Open a blank Word document and customize your color palette.
• Click the Save Current Theme to save the theme with custom colors to path C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes.
  

If you perform this behavior in Word, the Excel and PowerPoint on the same machine will automatically load this theme.

For more information, you could refer to Change a theme and make it the default in Word or Excel.

Hope the information could be helpful to you.

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