Using Document Themes

Theme is the concept of bundling colour, font and format settings. The colours, fonts and format settings names are hard coded in the document. When switching themes in the document, the elements containing the hardcoded names switch colours, fonts and format settings accordingly to the new theme.

To Apply a Theme to the Document

1. Choose Format - Themes.

2. Double-click on the theme desired or select the theme and click OK

All document elements with the hardcoded theme attribute name set will change to the new theme attribute. For example, a heading with font colour set as "Dark 2" changes to the new theme "Dark 2" colour.

To Add a New Theme

1. Choose Format - Theme and click on Add.

2. Enter a name for the new theme in the Name text box.

3. On the colour area, choose the main colour for each of the 12 hard coded colour name of the theme. LibreOffice creates 5 additional colours to the theme calculated from the main colour. The calculations of the colour variants are also hard coded in the theme and you cannot change them, only the main colour.

4. Click OK to close the colour dialogue box.

5. Click OK or double click the new theme to apply the theme to the document.

To Use a Document Theme

1. Format the document using the hardcoded theme attribute name such as colours, fonts and other format settings.

2. Apply the theme to the document.