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Applying themes to existing layouts

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Applying themes to existing layouts

FileMaker 12 has an entirely new set of themes. They are not only available when you're creating new layouts, but they can also be applied to existing layouts, and in this video, we're going to look at some of the considerations that you should take into account when applying a theme to a layout that already has some design style. For example, we're looking at a file that we've got on screen here, it's Invoices_09_05 in the exercise files. But this file is actually an old Starter Solution from the previous versions of FileMaker before 12. So it already has some style applied to it, and we're going to see what happens when we change the theme to one of the new FileMaker 12 themes. So let's say we want to apply a new theme to this database. First, in order to make any changes to the layout, we have to go into Layout mode, and now that we're in Layout mode, we're going to go under the Layouts menu, and choose Change Theme. It tells us that we've got the Classic theme chosen and really…

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