Angela wants to give her press release an attractive and cohesive appearance. How can she quickly format her press release so it uses common fonts, colors, and styles?

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Answer 1

Angela can use Quick Styles and themes to give her press release a professional and attractive appearance. She can first apply a Quick Style so that all titles, headings, body text, quotes, and lists are formatted with styles. Each style combines several formats, such as font, font size, and paragraph alignment. She can apply a Quick Style by clicking the More button in the Styles group on the HOME tab to open the Quick Styles gallery, and then choose from the preset Quick Styles.

Changing the theme applied to a document is another powerful and efficient way to tailor a document's look and feel, particularly when a document is formatted with a Quick Style set. By default, all documents created in Word are formatted with the default Office theme-which uses Calibri as the font for the body text- but Angela can change the theme at any time to fit the content, tone, and purpose of a document. When she changes the theme for a document, a complete set of new theme colors, fonts, and effects is applied to the whole document. To preview how various themes look when applied to the current document, click the Themes button in the Document Formatting group on the DESIGN tab, and then move the pointer over each theme in the gallery and notice how the document changes. When she clicks the theme she likes, all document content that uses theme colors, all text that is formatted with a style, including default body text, and all table styles and graphic effects change to the colors, fonts, and effects used by the theme. In addition, the gallery of colors changes to display the set of theme colors, and the active Quick Style set changes to employ the theme colors and fonts. Note that changing the theme does not change the non-theme-based font formatting that has already been applied. For example, if she changed the font of text, applied bold to text, or changed the font color of text to a standard or custom color, that formatting remains in place. If she wants to tweak the document design further, she can modify it by applying a different set of theme colors, heading and body text fonts, or graphic effects. To do this, simply click the Colors, Fonts, or Effects button in the Document Formatting group, move the pointer over each option in the gallery to preview it in the document, and then click the option she likes best.