Change text formatting

In Microsoft Office Word, you can apply a format to selected text, or you can quickly and easily format an entire document to give it a professional and modern look by applying a document theme. A document theme is a set of formatting choices that can include a color scheme (a set of colors), a font scheme (a set of heading and body text fonts), and an effects scheme (a set of lines and fill effects).What do you want to do?

Change the text color

Apply a predefined color theme

Create a custom color theme

Change the text color

In Office Word, you can use the formatting options on the Mini toolbar to quickly format text. The Mini toolbar appears automatically when you select text. It also appears with the menu when you select text and then right-click.

1. Select the text that you want to change, and move your pointer to the Mini toolbar that appears with your text selection.
2. Click Font Color, and then select the color that you want.

Apply a predefined color theme

You can change the colors in your document by selecting a new color theme. When you choose a new color theme, Word automatically formats various parts of your document with colors that are designed to work together.

1. On the Page Layout tab, in the Themes group, click Theme Colors.

   

   Note If you want to change the font, colors, and effects in your document, click Themes instead of Theme Colors.

2. Under Built-In, click the predefined color theme that you want to use.

Create a custom color theme

Changes that you make to a color theme immediately affect the active document. If you want to apply these changes to new documents, you can save them as a custom color theme.

1. On the Page Layout tab, in the Themes group, click Theme Colors.

   

2. Click Create New Theme Colors.
3. Under Theme colors, select the colors that you want to use.

   The sample updates automatically each time you select a color.

4. In the Name box, type a name for the new color theme.
5. Click Save.