Applying styles from a theme

When you apply a theme to a document, some of its styles are applied automatically to the document’s content, while others—the List and Table styles—can be applied manually when desired.

Styles that are applied automatically

The styles that are automatically applied include:

  • the Document style, which affects the font, text color, and background color of the whole document
  • the Heading 1 and Heading 2 styles, which affect the font, size, and color of all level-one and level-two headings, respectively
  • the Hyperlink styles, which affect the color of hyperlinks
Applying a list style from the current theme

There are actually two kinds of “list” styles in each theme. Styles of the first type are actually paragraph styles and can only be applied to ordinary paragraphs. They affect the font, size, and color of the paragraph. To apply one of these “list” styles:

  1. Place the insertion point in the paragraph to which you want to apply the list style. If you wish to apply the style to several consecutive paragraphs, select them.
  2. On the Home menu, click Define Styles in the Style section, and select namo-list or namo-sublist in the Styles dialog box.

Styles of the second “list” type are actual list-item styles and can only be applied to list items. They cause the list item to have an image bullet, using either the Bullet 1 or the Bullet 2 theme object. To apply one of these list styles:

  1. Select the desired list items. (Do not simply place the insertion point in the list item.)
  2. On the Insert menu, click Theme Object in the Multimedia section, and then click Apply Theme To List 1 or Apply Theme To List 2.
Applying the current theme’s table style to a table

Each theme has one table style. If you apply the style to a table, it affects the border and background colors of the entire table. To apply the table style:

  1. Place the insertion point inside the table to which you want to apply the style.
  2. On the Insert menu, click Theme Object in the Multimedia section, and then click Apply Theme To Table.
Related topics

Styles included in a theme

Formatting content

Applying styles from a theme