Theme-aware

[Polaris]

Can anyone elaborate on the term theme-aware? I keep seeing this term in
articles I read dealing with using Themes.

 

[Echo S]

Could you point us to one for some context?

Probably it just means that the file/application uses the new Office themes.
These carry a set of fonts, colors and effects to help make your files
consistent across the Office applications Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This
is a new Office 2007 feature.

 

[Polaris]

Echo S
This is just one para. of a document dealing with themes:

Templates contain formatting that is based upon the theme. Often, the
formatting in a template is done with styles, which define the paragraph
formatting and aspects of the text formatting, such as size. Styles may also
include table styles. In Office Word 2007, themes determine which colors and
fonts are used by styles, if the style uses theme-aware formatting. Styles
are not part of themes, so the definitions of the styles that are used for
text can be changed independently of the theme. However, if you apply fonts
and colors from the theme-aware portions of the font list and color palette,
you can change the appearance of text formatted with styles just by updating
the theme.

Could you point us to one for some context?

Probably it just means that the file/application uses the new Office themes.
These carry a set of fonts, colors and effects to help make your files
consistent across the Office applications Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This
is a new Office 2007 feature.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx

Can anyone elaborate on the term theme-aware? I keep seeing this term in
articles I read dealing with using Themes.

 

[Echo S]

Ah, thanks. Yeah, this makes more sense.

Take a look at this page:

http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm

and this one:

http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes2.htm

This is how color schemes affect objects on slides.

Even though these pages are for PPT 2003 and prior, the principle is the
same in 2007.

Now, in PPT 2007, a theme includes a color scheme.

If you format an object using the theme scheme, its color will change when
you apply a new theme or color scheme.

If you choose "more colors" and apply that color to an object, that color
will not change, because it's not based on theme colors.

Does that make sense?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx

Echo S
This is just one para. of a document dealing with themes:

Templates contain formatting that is based upon the theme. Often, the
formatting in a template is done with styles, which define the paragraph
formatting and aspects of the text formatting, such as size. Styles may
also
include table styles. In Office Word 2007, themes determine which colors
and
fonts are used by styles, if the style uses theme-aware formatting. Styles
are not part of themes, so the definitions of the styles that are used for
text can be changed independently of the theme. However, if you apply
fonts
and colors from the theme-aware portions of the font list and color
palette,
you can change the appearance of text formatted with styles just by
updating
the theme.

Could you point us to one for some context?

Probably it just means that the file/application uses the new Office
themes.
These carry a set of fonts, colors and effects to help make your files
consistent across the Office applications Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
This
is a new Office 2007 feature.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx

Can anyone elaborate on the term theme-aware? I keep seeing this term
in
articles I read dealing with using Themes.