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Using Themes 573
Using Themes
With themes, Excel 2013 enables you to uniformly format all the graphics that you add to a worksheet. You can select a new theme for the active worksheet simply by clicking the thumbnail of the theme you want to use in the Themes drop-down gallery opened by clicking the Themes command button on the Ribbon’s Page Layout tab (or by pressing Alt+PTH).
Use Live Preview to see how the graphics you’ve added to your worksheet appear in the new theme before you click its thumbnail.
Excel Themes combines three default elements: the color scheme applied to the graphics, the font (body and heading) used in the graphics, and the graphic effects applied. If you prefer, you can change any or all of these three elements in the worksheet by clicking their individual command buttons in the Themes group at the start of the Page Layout tab:
✦ Colorstoselectanewcolorschemebyclickingitsthumbnailofitscolor swatches on the drop-down palette. Click Customize Colors at the bottom of this palette to open the Create New Theme Colors dialog box where you can customize each element of the color scheme and save it with a new descriptive name.
✦ Fonts to select a new font by clicking its thumbnail on the drop-down list. Click Customize Fonts at the bottom of this list to open the Create New Theme Fonts dialog box, where you can customize the heading and body fonts for both Latin and East Asian text and save it with a new descriptive name.
✦ Effects to select a new set of graphics effects by clicking its thumbnail in the drop-down gallery.
To save your newly selected color scheme, font, and graphic effects as a custom theme that you can reuse in other workbooks, click the Themes command button and then click Save Current Theme at the bottom of the gallery to open the Save Current Theme dialog box. Edit the generic Theme1 name in the File Name text box (without deleting the .thmx filename exten- sion) and then click the Save button. Excel then adds the custom theme to a Custom Themes section in the Themes drop-down gallery that you can apply to any active worksheet simply by clicking its thumbnail.
Book V Chapter 2
Adding Graphic Objects