Background: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, OS X 10.7.4, MacBookPro5,1 I desperately want to change the theme fonts and colors to take advantage of the interface advantages of having these elements at the top of every menu and preloaded into styles. However I can't figure out how to do it. Every single resource I've found on the internet shows me how to change to another Microsoft-designed theme, usually hinting that it's possible to create a custom theme but not saying how or even where to look.
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It's infuriating. The Theme Colors menu in Powerpoint (which in Word is inexplicably only visible in Publisher view, argh!) has a link fixed at the bottom of the link that says 'Create Theme Colors' but for some reason this link isn't to be found in Word. And in Word and Powerpoint both there's no such link for fonts.
Would somebody please tell me how to do this one thing that in my opinion is absolutely crucial to using this seemingly central feature of one of the most often used professional computer programs in existence? While MS Theme Builder seems to solve the problem, I could not find a version for OS X using the links provided. To avoid having to run Theme Builder in a virtual machine, it is also possible to create custom theme font definitions by doing some very simple XML file editing. By googling, I found several articles describing the procedure, e.g. This one: You basically copy an XML file defining one of the built-in theme font packages to a user folder (if you have redefined your user template location, you should copy the XML file to your custom location, not the location under /Library/Application Support/ specified in the article), and then you edit the XML file to change the font names. (There is also a text that needs to be changed in order to match the file name.) I can confirm that it works in Word 2011.
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Word needs to be restarted for any additions or changes to take effect. The same procedure is supposed to work for colors (the folder locations are adjacent), although I have not tried it. I created a new color theme in PowerPoint ('Create Theme Colors' in the Colors drop-down list) and then save the theme as a.thmx file in the myUsername Library Application Support Microsoft Office User Templates My Themes Theme Colors folder and then in Word I was able to click on 'Browse Themes' in the Themes Drop-down and find my custom.thmx file to load. That worked for loading the colors, but I have yet to figure out how to load a custom font theme. Kind of a hassle to have to do it through PowerPoint, but at least it works.
Background: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, OS X 10.7.4, MacBookPro5,1 I desperately want to change the theme fonts and colors to take advantage of the interface advantages of having these elements at the top of every menu and preloaded into styles. However I can't figure out how to do it. Every single resource I've found on the internet shows me how to change to another Microsoft-designed theme, usually hinting that it's possible to create a custom theme but not saying how or even where to look. It's infuriating. The Theme Colors menu in Powerpoint (which in Word is inexplicably only visible in Publisher view, argh!) has a link fixed at the bottom of the link that says 'Create Theme Colors' but for some reason this link isn't to be found in Word.
And in Word and Powerpoint both there's no such link for fonts. Would somebody please tell me how to do this one thing that in my opinion is absolutely crucial to using this seemingly central feature of one of the most often used professional computer programs in existence? While MS Theme Builder seems to solve the problem, I could not find a version for OS X using the links provided. To avoid having to run Theme Builder in a virtual machine, it is also possible to create custom theme font definitions by doing some very simple XML file editing. By googling, I found several articles describing the procedure, e.g.
This one: You basically copy an XML file defining one of the built-in theme font packages to a user folder (if you have redefined your user template location, you should copy the XML file to your custom location, not the location under /Library/Application Support/ specified in the article), and then you edit the XML file to change the font names. (There is also a text that needs to be changed in order to match the file name.) I can confirm that it works in Word 2011. Word needs to be restarted for any additions or changes to take effect. The same procedure is supposed to work for colors (the folder locations are adjacent), although I have not tried it. I created a new color theme in PowerPoint ('Create Theme Colors' in the Colors drop-down list) and then save the theme as a.thmx file in the myUsername Library Application Support Microsoft Office User Templates My Themes Theme Colors folder and then in Word I was able to click on 'Browse Themes' in the Themes Drop-down and find my custom.thmx file to load. That worked for loading the colors, but I have yet to figure out how to load a custom font theme. Kind of a hassle to have to do it through PowerPoint, but at least it works.