How to change and customize the color palette of a document in Word
Many of us like to personalize our documents when we create them before sending them to others. This personalization is, in many cases, like a personal signature, both in the form of the structure of the document and, for example, in the colors used in the document so that it can have a unique appearance. Word, for example, has a large number of tools that allow us to adjust the design of documents to our liking, among which is the Word color palette.
The Word color palette is one of the options document design offered by this office suite which allows us to configure the colors that each of the elements of the document (text, titles, etc.) will have so that we do not have to give the color manually each time we introduce one of these elements, but automatically it always comes out the same color.
How to choose a color palette for our Word document
By default, Word has a series of default color palettes that allow us to change the color of text elements very easily. Using Word 2016 as a base, we can see these palettes in the word processor itself, by clicking on the tab "Design" of the toolbar and we will display the Colors panel to see all the default palettes.
As we can see, in this section we can find the default palettes of modern versions of Office , of the 2007 and 2010 versions, as well as a wide variety of other predefined palettes which will allow us to give a more personalized and visually pleasing touch, to our document.
We can easily switch between them just by choosing which one we want to use, and we'll see directly how the content of our document changes.
Thanks to these color palettes, when we need to change the appearance of a document, we can change it for all of that simply by changing the palette, something much more comfortable than having to manually change all the elements that we have colored throughout the document.
How to customize our own Word color palette
Although as we have seen by default we have several palettes to customize the colors of each document, it is possible that none of them are what we are looking for. If this is the case, Word also allows us to customize the color palettes so that we can make our document look exactly the way we want.
Do this at the end of the Word list referring to palettes, you can see an entry titled " Customize colors «. Click on it and a new window will open like the following one, where we can customize the colors of each of the elements of our document.
We choose each of the colors and, at the end, we choose the name we want to give to this new color palette. Now at the top of the list of color palettes, the one we just created will appear, a palette that we can use whenever we want to format our document.
If for some reason we want to remove this palette, we can do that easily by right clicking on it. The predefined palettes cannot be deleted or modified.
Do you usually customize the look of your Word documents with color palettes?
