Hello, we have a letterhead file that staff use when preparing reports.
Right now all the text is black, using our corporate font, etc....
Sometimes we'll need some text (e.g. body text, or a heading) to be styled into our corporate colours. So what we currently do is highlight the text, click 'Font Colour', then click 'More Colours', then type in the custom RGB numbers. At this point the colour
is saved under' Recent Colours' but only temporarily.
I'd like to somehow have the colours quickly accessible (e.g. if it permanently showed up under Recent Colours that'd be great). Also, if this 'setting' could be saved into the Letterhead file that'd be even better.
E.g. a solution that requires configuring each user's Word 2010 application would not be preferred.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!
Hans's reply in that thread is one method. Another is to create a character style that consists only of the custom color, which you can apply onto any text that needs it regardless of the paragraph style that's already applied (Normal, Body Text, Heading
X, etc.).
In a document based on your Letterhead template, use the More Colors dialog to apply the custom color to some selected text, or select some text that already has it. On the Home tab, click the lower down-arrow of the Styles gallery and click Save Selection as a New Quick Style. In the small dialog that appears, enter a name and click the Modify button. (Important: Don't click OK, because then you'll get a paragraph style, which can't be converted into a character style.)
In the next dialog, change the Style Type dropdown to Character. If you want to add this new style to the template on which the current document is based, click the option button at the bottom for "New documents based on this template" -- that will make the style available in all new documents (but not existing documents) that you create from that template.
Don't change anything else, just click OK.
_____________________________In a document based on your Letterhead template, use the More Colors dialog to apply the custom color to some selected text, or select some text that already has it. On the Home tab, click the lower down-arrow of the Styles gallery and click Save Selection as a New Quick Style. In the small dialog that appears, enter a name and click the Modify button. (Important: Don't click OK, because then you'll get a paragraph style, which can't be converted into a character style.)
In the next dialog, change the Style Type dropdown to Character. If you want to add this new style to the template on which the current document is based, click the option button at the bottom for "New documents based on this template" -- that will make the style available in all new documents (but not existing documents) that you create from that template.
Don't change anything else, just click OK.
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