Lynda - Using Office 2013 Themes and Templates for Branding

544MB | Duration: 3h 42m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner | Language: English

Office 2013 themes make branding easy, and templates help Office users to implement your themes. This course shows how to create effective themes that can be distributed and used in every Office app. Start by creating a theme in PowerPoint: choosing your color palette, fonts, and effects. Then see how to apply the theme to a PowerPoint template and lock down the slide layout. Author Gini Courter also shows how to access your theme from Word and Excel templates, and distribute the templates to others. The course ends in Outlook, where Gini shows how to set up stationery and signature options.

Topics include:

* Creating themes for PowerPoint

* Modifying slide masters and slide layouts

* Adding placeholders and instructions to PowerPoint templates

* Creating and modifying Word styles

* Creating a custom header, footer, or Quick Part

* Saving building blocks in a Word template

* Creating Excel templates

* Adding instructions and protection in Excel sheets

* Sharing templates

* Branding in Outlook