Understanding how themes relate to styles

Microsoft introduced themes in Word 2007. Just as there are built-in styles and…style sets, Word also comes prepackaged with built-in themes.…Styles are built upon themes;…therefore themes work hand in hand with styles.…Styles are built upon whichever themes are in place.…Let's take a look at themes and how it's important to understand how they work…when you're working with your styles.…Let's say we just received this employee handbook from our company.…

We need to fix it up.…The first thing we need to do is change the color and the fonts throughout…the whole document.…That's where our themes can really come in handy.…I'll begin by opening up the Style window. This way we can see, live, how our themes…are going to affect our styles.…Now I'll switch over to Draft view by going to View > Draft.…I can see by scrolling through this document that someone had applied heading styles…and list styles, but other than that, the Normal style is in use.…

Now I will switch back to Print Layout view.…Since most of the styles applied are heading styles, I am going to scroll down…