Color themes

[Danilo]

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to figure out the purpose of the Text/Background - Dark 2 and Text/Background Light 2 colors in the Edit Theme Colors window, and I've tried everything, but still can't get these colors applied to anything. How I understand it, I should get the text in these colors when applying dark or light background color - the dark one for the light background color, and the light when applying the dark background color. It doesn't happen when I change Page Color in Word 2013, the color of the text switches between white and black instead, and I'm not sure in which other situation these colors are supposed to be used.
Also, I don't get why they underlined D in Dark, and L in Light, (as well as T in Text and B in Background in the first two options). I mean, it is some sort of indication I guess, but I can't figure out what it stands for. Here's an image of Edit Theme Colors window http://speakingppt.com/wp-content/up...t-1024x444.png illustrating the use of the first two options, but unfortunately not the following two, that I'd like to know about.



Thank you for the help.

[eNGiNe]

Pre Ribbon, a single underlined letter in a command identified a "keyboard accelerator" for working quickly and comfortably without reaching for the mouse. Example: instead of opening the Insert menu, clicking on Picture and then clicking on From file, hit Alt + i, p, f

Never seen 2013, so I don't know if you've found a leftover there!

[Danilo]

Thank you very much for the answer Engine. But I still don't know what these two colors are used for, they are supposed to work I guess, whatever the shortcuts for them are.

[Stefan Blom]

Originally Posted by eNGiNe

Pre Ribbon, a single underlined letter in a command identified a "keyboard accelerator" for working quickly and comfortably without reaching for the mouse. Example: instead of opening the Insert menu, clicking on Picture and then clicking on From file, hit Alt + i, p, f

Never seen 2013, so I don't know if you've found a leftover there!

Actually, Word 2007 and later still support the accelerator keys available in earlier versions. For example, you can use Alt, T, O to open the Options dialog box (corresponding to Tools | Options in Word 2003 and earlier).

[Stefan Blom]

Originally Posted by Danilo

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to figure out the purpose of the Text/Background - Dark 2 and Text/Background Light 2 colors in the Edit Theme Colors window, and I've tried everything, but still can't get these colors applied to anything. How I understand it, I should get the text in these colors when applying dark or light background color - the dark one for the light background color, and the light when applying the dark background color. It doesn't happen when I change Page Color in Word 2013, the color of the text switches between white and black instead, and I'm not sure in which other situation these colors are supposed to be used.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen a description anywhere what the various "types of colors" actually mean. The previews that you see in the Create New Color Theme dialog box give a hint, but the rest we have to guess. :-(

[Danilo]

Thank you Stefan Blom. From the preview they give in Edit Theme Colors, it is just not clear what color applies to what. The first two text colors work as suggested on the image I posted, but the second two text color options do not work in any theme or combination of text and background. The use of Accent colors is not clear to me either. Except for pie charts I haven't seen what's the use of Accent colors 2-6 with shapes, tables, borders or similar. In fact, when I use certain shape for example, and if I use a specific theme, to paint it in specific color, it is going to be painted in Accent 1 color of that theme, and the border will be a lighter shade of that same color, decided arbitrarily by Word, not according to any settings of Accent colors I have chosen. When I manually change Shape fill color, for example, in Drawing tools --> Format, that color will change when I change themes, but not the Shape outline color, if I manually selected the specific border color.
All in all, I'm confused about the use of colors for anything in Word, and when I try to customize themes, I'm never sure what will I get in the end, which is frustrating. I wish I could use the color theming in Word more effectively.

[eNGiNe]

Word 2007 and later still support the accelerator keys available in earlier versions

…

… some of which are still burned into my motor memory: but I wish I could find a complete list somewhere, just for the fun of it

[Stefan Blom]

With a bit of VBA, you can do it. As a starting point, you can use the following macro to print (to the Immediate window of the Visual Basic Editor) all main menu commands:

Sub MyTestMacro()
For Each i In CommandBars.ActiveMenuBar.Controls
Debug.Print i.Caption
Next i
End Sub

Accelerator keys are preceded by an ampersand.