Word provides the ability to create a number of different colours, fonts, styles and more, allowing you to fully customise the look of your documents.
Using themes allows your documents to follow a consistent style, making the documents personal to you.
By using themes, you can include coordinated colours and styles without the hassle of creating them yourself.
Creating them yourself would require a great deal of time to find a style that works well.
This is why the pre-created themes contained in word are so useful.
All documents already have an applied theme, when you first create a blank document by clicking on Microsoft word; the office theme is automatically applied.
This will coordinate many of the formatting choices made throughout the document.
The quick styles found in the styles area within the home tab allow you to choose pre-created themes.
Choosing a different theme will cause different styles to appear in the styles gallery.
Furthermore, you can fine-tune your selection by choosing a quick style set for your document.
Microsoft word allows you to test themes before selecting them.
To preview different themes, select the page layout tab and click themes.
The theme gallery will then open, displaying a number of different themes for you to test.
When you point to a theme with your mouse, the name of the theme, along with the changes appear in the document window.
The current theme remains highlighted, allowing you to clearly see the selected and previewed theme.
To change the theme, simply click it.
To conclude, themes are a great way of customising your document and making it personal to you.
Not only will it make it look professional, but it will make documents link to you or your company.
This is useful in creating a name of yourself, as people can easily recognise your documents.