Themes: Changing the colors and fonts of your document

re: Themes: Changing the colors and fonts of your document

Ute Simon — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:20:45 GMT

I've read a lot of complaining about the new themes here. I like the introduction of themes into Word 2007! I am working in the advertising business, and see daily, how important it is to show a consistent look & feel through all documents, and tables, and presentations to represent a brand. And the themes across the three most important Office programs definitely make this easier. They will make branding work easier. Thanks for this addition to Office 2007!

re: Themes: Changing the colors and fonts of your document

Katherine — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:03:42 GMT

I don't know how to post a screenshot. But it's not really necessary. I and seven other people I know also working with RTM noticed that when you start Word or open a new, blank document, the blank paragraph in the document shows Calibri in the Font box on the Home tab, not Calibri (Body) as it was in B2 and B2TR. In other words, the Normal style is Calibri. So when I change to a different theme, my body text doesn't change unless I bothered to change the style first. (I do know that I can change the definition of the Normal style for my docs, but it seems like a bug.) And as long as I'm commenting, AutoComplete for dates does not work the way Help describes (Word Home/Writing/Automatically insert the current date) and as it worked in previous versions. It doesn't insert the current date. It will only insert days of the week and long months.

re: Themes: Changing the colors and fonts of your document

wrdblog — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:15:28 GMT

Hi Francis – Thanks for all the great detail. I’ve passed these issues along to our test team for investigation. Hi Katherine – Feel free to post as much information as you can as a comment, and I will pass the info along to our test team. Screen shots and files that reproduce the bug are extremely helpful and would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to both of you for the time you’ve dedicated to this :) -Jonathan

re: Themes: Changing the colors and fonts of your document

Francis — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:56:25 GMT

Sorry hassle you any more, but I forgot to mention that when a styleref field refers to an automatically-generated Bibliography heading, it inserts a "<" (less than symbol) and sometimes extra spaces before the word "Bibliography". See www.francispickering.com/biblio.png

(The window is split with fields shown in the top half.)

re: Themes: Changing the colors and fonts of your document

Katherine — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:50:47 GMT

I also was wondering how to submit a bug report. I tried the phone number on the page you linked to above, but I don't know which option to choose to report the bugs. The one that relates directly to themes is that the default style for new documents is Calibri, not Calibri (Body), which means that changing themes doesn't produce any changes in the text.

re: Themes: Changing the colors and fonts of your document

wrdblog — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:44:10 GMT

Apply Styles (Ctrl+Shift+S) is intended to be light-weight UI that lets you easily apply an existing style or define a new one. The Styles pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) is meant to provide a list of styles organized based on your preferences in the Options dialog (including the ability to have entries tracking direct formatting). They are definitely related and there are certainly scenarios where it would be nice to be able to anchor them together but many users use one or the other but not both so they were kept separate.

re: Themes: Changing the colors and fonts of your document

wrdblog — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:04:54 GMT

Hi Francis – If you are seeing crashes, please report them via the “Send Report” option that surfaces during/post the crash. Besides letting us know via comments, support.microsoft.com/.../contactbug is the best way to report bugs. - Jonathan

re: Themes: Changing the colors and fonts of your document

m_anter — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:41:19 GMT

Hi Stuart, What is the difference between the "Styles" pane and the "Apply Styles" pane? I think they could be merged in one pane. Thank you for your concern

re: Themes: Changing the colors and fonts of your document

Francis — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:43:07 GMT

Speaking of bugs, I have uncovered several problems in RTM--including crashing the program and corrupting my document. Is there an e-mail where I can report these to?

re: Themes: Changing the colors and fonts of your document

wrdblog — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:20:53 GMT

Unfortunately the document map always runs the AutoFormat code in order to try to find important items that should be represented that are not yet styled. However, the fact that the outline levels are changing is a bug and I shall report it as such.