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 The last Wordies session this week will be on Friday Morning at 10:00am 
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Adding themes to the mix

 

In our latest session we added Themes to our knowledge of designing professional documents. we found out that within any theme there may be hundreds of possibilities so that overall there may be in excess of half a million designs of a document without going to the internet for even more theme ideas.

Themes are pre-set colour, layout and font combinations that can be applied to a document at a click of a mouse.

Adding a theme is easy if you have already added styles to the document. This underpins the last session where we stressed the importance of not just using the font panel and format painter to manage the look and feel of our documents.

Here is a simple theme document

Here is the same document with a change of theme and a background watermark added

NO extra typing or arranging was done to change the look of the document

Using styles to make your documents more professional

 

In the beginning, to print letters there was type, consisting of wooden blocks with carved letters that were inked and pressed to paper. When the typewriter appeared the modern office was born and with it the typing pool. Type still all looked the same as the typewriter had only one set of hammers that printed by pressing inked ribbon to paper. Innovations like IBM's golf-ball and daisy-wheel made typed letters and documents more interesting, as you could change the ball/wheel with different styles of type. It was the advent of word processing that really put style into the hands of office workers. Now we all get the benefit of total flexibility as we can choose colour, typefaces and layouts with programs/apps like Word.

With word processors like Word we are able to define certain font combinations to use for titles, headings, and body text. These can be labelled as styles.

Styles are so useful. Our second session highlights how to use them, and how to customize them easily.

Follow this link for the official words of wisdom from Microsoft on Styles

Introducing file saving

The session on file types went well and we have revisited it to ensure confidence. Don't forget to look at the resources for the course. 

DOCX and PDF are by far the most popular saving formats for Word users. However, many people still save in the word 97-2003 DOC format because they create their documents by modifying older ones. This means that they are not taking advantage of the better features of DOCX files

This extract from HowtoGeek summarises the main advantages of less corruptible and smaller DOCX files

"DOCX is a better choice for just about every situation. The format creates smaller, lighter files that are easier to read and transfer. The open nature of the Office Open XML standard means that it can be read by just about any full-featured word processor, including online tools like Google Docs. The only reason to use the older DOC file format now would be to recover some files older than ten years, or to work with a very much out-of-date word processor. In either case, it would be best to re-save the file in DOCX, or some other modern standard like ODF, for an easy conversion."

Full how to geek article link here

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