Adding your corporate colors to Word as default
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Overview
- Creating a formal business letter
- Creating a monthly company newsletter
- Formatting a long business report, adding charts & graphs from Excel
- Creating a timetable schedule using tables
- Creating a company template using corporate fonts, colours & images
- Creating a product overview PDF with basic interactivity
- Creating a business form
- Printing personalised letterheads & envelopes for client lists
- This course is for absolute beginners
- You'll need a copy of Microsoft Word 2016.
- No previous Word or desktop publishing skills are necessary.
- How to work with your specific company fonts & colours.
- Format text like a professional.
- Work with various images, styles and implementations.
- Save documents to older versions of Word.
- How to save as a PDF.
- How to make an interactive form.
- Where to get inspiration for your design.
- How to install new fonts.
- Work with multiple column layouts.
- How to personalise letters & envelopes from a list.
- Adjust heading styles.
- Work with really long text documents.
- How to create a table of contents automatically.
- How to work with bullets & numbering.
- How to master tabs.
- Create beautiful graphics & diagrams.
- How to make an infographic.
- How to work closely with Microsoft Excel.
- How to work with comments & changes.
- How to share you documents with others.
- How to build your own company templates.
- How to work with tables.
- How to add videos to you documents.
- You’ll get a cheat sheet, shortcuts and much, much more…
- Yes: This course is for people who need to learn Microsoft Word for work.
- Yes: This course is perfect for people who need to upgrade their skills for their CV and job applications.
- Yes: This course is for complete beginners and for people who know the basics of Word already.
- No: This course is NOT for people who have advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word.
- No:This is for PC version of Word 2016. (While 90% of this course will work on a Mac and in early versions of Word no guarantees can be made.)
Course duration 3 hours 18 mins
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
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Hey there, in this video we're going to look at creating a custom color, a corporate color, and then we're going to add it as the defaults, for Word's every document has it in there. Let's go do it.
First thing you need to do is, you need to go to the 'Design' tab, and along the edge here, on the right, there's this one called 'Colors', pop that down, and here's your kind of like-- You've got some default colors in here, we're going to go in and adjust these.
Go down to 'Customize Colors', you can see 'Create New Theme Colors'. It's going to create a new theme color, so create it first and then we'll go through and set it as our default.
We're going to leave the text default as 'Black', but we're going to use these 'Accents' for our colors. So where it says 'Accent 1', drop that down and go to 'More Colors'. This is where you get to put in your corporate colors. Now, if you have no idea what your corporate color is, you're going to have to figure out what the 'RGB' value is. Often, if you've got a corporate manual, or corporate spec document, it will have your colors in there, so figure out what those are, 'RGB'. So, 'Red', 'Green', 'Blue', and you type them in here.
I'm looking at the 'Bring Your Own Laptop' spec document here, and it says we got a 'Green', and the 'Red', 'Green', 'Blue' values are '24', '142', and '128'. You can see it gives me this green color here. Click 'OK'.
Next one, I'll choose the next 'Accent' color, 'More Colors', and I'm going to put in our 'Red'. So the 'Red' is '209', '95', and '65'. Click 'OK'. I can keep going through if I needed more, but I'm just going to use these, 'Accent 1', and 'Accent 2'. Great!
So this is here for this document. That works fine. So I can select this, drop this down now, and you can see there's my two colors, and some random other ones. So these are my two first colors in terms of that color, which can be quite helpful.
What you want to do is to set it as default for all the new documents, because if I create a new document now, and I put in some text, then highlight it, you can see, back to the original colors there.
So what I want to do is-- I'm going to not save him. Once you've done it, there's an option here that says 'Set as Default'. Let's click 'Set as Default', say 'Yes'. And now, if I'm making a new document, if I go up to here, here's my lovely green, and my red.
So that is how to add your corporate colors to Word, and then set it as your default.
