Jobs related to the office automation sector are growing a lot in recent times. Here used programs such as Microsoft Word or Excel from the same firm come into play, among many others from other developers.
In fact, we could say that these are the most used programs around the world, both on a business level and more personally. This is because, for example, a word processor of the stature of Word , nowadays has very advanced functions. While in the past this type of software presented us with an interface to write and little else, things have changed. We say this because in these times the versatility of these solutions has grown a lot.
This is something that is achieved thanks to the updates and new versions that its developers send us. And of course, the office program par excellence, Microsoft Word, could not be less. That is why in these same lines we are going to focus on it and we will talk about a useful functionality that it presents. Specifically, we are going to show you how to customize the color palette that we can use in the documents that we create here.
Word offers many features to customize your documents
It must be borne in mind that the elements that today we can add to the documents that we create with this application are innumerable. At the same time, the customization possibilities that the software presents us is enormous, as we have taught you many times. The works that we generate here, on many occasions are not for exclusive and personal use, but rather we share them with other users.
That is why on many occasions we decide to make use of certain customization functions in order to adapt the work to what we really need. It should be noted that many users like to personalize those documents they work on, for example, send them to other people over the Internet. We can also add many additional elements such as images , graphics , tables, etc .; all from the program’s Insert menu.
At the same time, in order to create more original and unique documents, we can choose to add a personal and own signature, give a certain format to the work, or modify the colors used in it. So what we really achieve is that what we are working on in Word, has a unique aspect that represents us. In this way, as we say, the Microsoft program presents us with a large number of functions that allow us to adjust the design of the documents . Therefore in these same lines we are going to focus on the Word color palette, specifically how we can customize it.
At this point we will tell you that the aforementioned Word color palette is one of the document design options that the program offers us. In this way, we will have the possibility to configure and customize the range of colors that each of the elements of the document will have. Here part of the importance of the text itself, the titles we use, etc. come into play. Therefore, thanks to all this, we will not have to add these colors manually every time we introduce some of these elements. Thanks to the palette that the program presents us, we will automatically make it always look the same color for each section.
Change the color palette for Word documents
It should be mentioned that by default Word has a series of color palettes that allow us to easily change the tonality of the text elements. In this way, we have the possibility of viewing these palettes within the program itself, specifically from the Design menu option. This is found in the toolbar, we will see it more specifically in the button called Colors to see the default palettes.
Thus, as we can see in this section that we are commenting on, here we can find the default palettes to use in our documents . But that’s not all, but we will also see a great variety of predefined palettes that we can use, not just one. This will allow us to give a more personalized and visual touch to the document in which we are working.
But of course, as expected, at the same time we have the possibility to easily change the palette that is used by default. For this, we just have to choose the one we want to use from among those listed. Next we will see that at that moment the content of our document changes depending on the choice made. Say that thanks to these color palettes, when we have to change the appearance of a Word job , we can do it simply by changing the color palette.
As you can imagine, if we make intensive use of the program , this will save us a lot of time when changing the appearance of the documents. This is because it will be much more comfortable to do it automatically than having to manually change all the elements that we have colored.
Customize the color palette with your own
As we have just seen, by default we have at our disposal several palettes to customize the colors of each document. But it can also be the case that none of them suits what we are looking for at that moment. Therefore, if we are faced with this problem, Word itself allows us to customize the color palettes displayed by default. This will give us the possibility so that we can give our document just the look we want.
Well, if that is what we really want to do, the first thing to do will be to place ourselves at the bottom of the list of palettes that Word offers us. There we can see an entry called Customize colors, which is what interests us in this case. Therefore we only have to click on it and a new window will open.
Therefore, in it we will see that in a simple way we can customize the colors to use for each of the elements of the document in which we work. To achieve this we can choose each of the colors and specify the name that we want to give to this new color palette. We will see sections such as the background of the texts , different models of emphasis, or the color for the hyperlinks .
Once we have finished assigning the new tones, the one we just created will appear at the top of the list of color palettes. In this way, this new one is the one that we can use by default to give more personal formatting to our work in Word .