Holiday Lab (using Headings, Themes, Styles, Page Numbers, and Cropping)

Theme- (on Page Layout tab)a set of design elements that provide a unified look for your colors, fonts, and graphics

Themes (colors, fonts, effects) simplify the process of creating matching, professional-looking documents not only within one program but across multiple programs. Use themes to give all of your organization's communications a branded look.

The Difference between Themes and StylesAt first look it may seem that themes and styles in Microsoft Word serve the same function. Both features allow you to change colors, typefaces and style sets. The difference is that themes define the overall look of your document while styles offer different palette options that work with the main design.

Citations

What Is the Difference Between MS Word Themes & Styles? | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/facts_6851276_difference-ms-word-themes-styles_.html#ixzz1cCWSPfAR

Style (on Home tab) if you want to change certain parts of the theme or customize a document.

ExampleWhat color would a Christmas theme be? What color would a Halloween theme be?

What if you used a Halloween theme for a letter but then you wanted to make a certain part red (for blood) and have a creepier text? You could highlight the part you want to change and use the style options to make the text and color look different.

Your Turn

The same theme used in Office PowerPoint 2007, Office Excel 2007, and Office Word 2007

Holiday Lab (using Headings, Themes, Styles, Page Numbers, and Cropping)

1 CREATE 4 HEADINGS (USE EITHER HEADING 1 OR HEADING 2)

Name Favorite Holiday What I like about it? How I celebrate it?

2 Go to the Navigation Pane to see if your headings are correct (View then click Navigation Pane on in the Show group) (If you see them on the browse tab, they are correct)

3 UNDERNEATH the Name heading- type your name

4 UNDERNEATH the Favorite Holiday heading- type your holiday

5 UNDERNEATH the “What I like about it?” heading- type two sentences.

6 UNDERNEATH the “How I celebrate it?” heading- type two sentences.

7 Choose a theme (Page Layout tab)

8 Change one sentence using the Styles feature (Home tab)

9 Insert a Page number and format the page number

10 Insert a clip art image and crop to shape (your choice of shape)

11 Use the Picture Style Dialog Box (bottom right arrow) to crop using the crop position numbers, use the corrections features (sharpen and soften; brightness and contrast), add a picture effect, try all of the wrap texts options. (see image below)

Note: You can read the transcript or watch the “Enhancing Images” video if you get stuck.

12. At the bottom of your document type 3 complete sentences to answer the question “What is the difference between a theme and a style?”