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Applying themes to existing layouts

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Applying themes to existing layouts

FileMaker ships with a set of themes that can be applied to your existing layouts. As a user you may change the layouts theme at any point during the design process. We've talked about themes and how useful they can be to give a nice consistent look throughout your database in an earlier video in this chapter. But in this case, I want to have a quick discussion with you about, what happens if you might apply themes to existing layouts. So what I have here is one of the exercise files which is called invoices_09_05. And if you open it up, you can see that this is, really it was created a couple versions ago. But it's a customized layout, if we go into Layout mode. You'll see that it's got all sorts of elements attached and color and some background and all sorts of layers and everything. So a lot of careful time was taken to design this layout. Now you'll notice that it's the Classic theme. And that's because anytime FileMaker opens up a database that was created in a previous version,…

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