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Creating themes

You can use themes to customize pages. You can create a theme and add it to the Gallery so that it’s available in a convenient location. You can then apply this theme to a page, all pages in a group or all pages in a file.

The Gallery also includes some themes.

ClosedTo create a theme

  1. Select Format > Theme > Create New Theme.

  2. Type a name for the theme in the Theme Name box.

  3. Set the background in the same way that you would for a page (see Applying page backgrounds and themes).

  4. Add and modify objects on the theme in the same way that you would on a page (see Creating and working with basic objects).

  5. Press Save.

    The theme appears in the My Content category of the Gallery.

ClosedTo create a theme based on the current page

  1. Select Format > Theme > Create New Theme From Page.

  2. Type a name for the theme in the Theme Name box.

  3. Press Save.

    The theme appears in the My Content category of the Gallery.