You're reading from Learn Microsoft Office 2021 Your one-stop guide to upskilling with new features of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Teams

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803239736

Length 654 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Excel

Concepts

Document Preparation

Author (1):

Linda Foulkes

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Learning Word 2021

2. Chapter 1: Exploring the New Interface and Managing OneDrive FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Dictation, Co-authoring, and Embedding

4. Chapter 3: Styles, Referencing, and Media

5. Chapter 4: Managing Professional Documents

6. Part 2: Learning PowerPoint 2021

7. Chapter 5: The PowerPoint Interface and Presentation Options

8. Chapter 6: Formatting Slides, Charts, and Graphic Elements

9. Chapter 7: Photo Albums, Sections, and Show Tools

10. Chapter 8: Mastering Best Practices with Presentations

11. Part 3: Learning Excel 2021

12. Chapter 9: New Features, Filters, and Cleaning Data

13. Chapter 10: Exploring New and Useful Workflow Functions

14. Chapter 11: Date-Time Functions and Enhancing PivotTable Dashboards

15. Chapter 12: Useful Statistical and Mathematical Functions

16. Part 4: Outlook 2021 and Useful Communication Tools

17. Chapter 13: Creating and Attaching Item Content

18. Chapter 14: Managing Mail and Contacts

19. Chapter 15: Calendar Objects, Tasks, Notes, and Journal Entries

20. Chapter 16: Creating and Managing Online Meetings

21. Chapter 17: Presenting and Collaborating Online

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Applying and modifying themes

A theme is a collection of fonts, colors, and effects that are saved as a name in the theme gallery. Predefined themes are available from the Themes group on the Design tab. If you wish to customize a theme, use the options from the Variants group.

In my experience, it is always easier to decide on a theme before adding all of your content to it. Applying a completely new theme design, or changing a design theme once your presentation is complete, can cause a few complications, with you having to redo certain formatting elements. Follow these steps:

Open the presentation called Safest Solutions-Themes.pptx.
Click on Design | More…:

Figure 6.33 – The More drop-down list in the Themes group

Select a theme to apply to the presentation, or visit Browse for Themes… to visit the explorer view to locate themes that are stored on the computer. After choosing the Mesh theme, this particular...