Apply shading to words or paragraphs - Microsoft Support
WEBShading words or paragraphs gives them a background color that updates when you switch to a different document theme. It's different from highlighting text, which has a very limited choice of colors, and doesn't update when you switch to another theme.
Change a theme and make it the default in Word or Excel
WEBDocument themes make it easy to coordinate colors, fonts, and graphic formatting effects across your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents and update them quickly. This video show you how-to change the entire theme, read below to just customize theme fonts, colors, or effects.
Apply or remove highlighting - Microsoft Support
WEBSelect the text that you want to remove highlighting from or press Ctrl+A to select all of the text. Go to Home and select the arrow next to Text Highlight Color. Select No Color. Quickly find highlighted text. Select Find > Advanced Find. The Find and Replace box appears. Select Format > Highlight. If you don't see the Format button, select More.
Change the track changes color - Microsoft Support
WEBYou can change the color to a fixed value, or have no color at all in the Color field. Changed lines shows lines that were changed with a vertical bar where you place it (none, left margin, right margin, or outside margin). This lets you see where changes have been made, even when you can't see them (like blank lines).
Customize or create new styles - Microsoft Support
WEBYou can change the formatting (such as font size, color, and text indentation) in styles applied to titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on. You can also select formatted text in your document to create a new style in the Styles gallery.
Change the font color - Microsoft Support
WEBYou can change the color of text in your Word document. Select the text that you want to change. On the Home tab, in the Font group, choose the arrow next to Font Color, and then select a color. You can also use the formatting options on the Mini toolbar to …
Change the default text color (font color) in Word
WEBGo to Home and select the Font dialog launcher . Select the arrow next to Font color, and then choose a color. Select Set As Default and then select one of the following: This document only? All document based on the Normal.dotm template? Select OK.
Change the colors in a text box or shape - Microsoft Support
WEBIn a text box or shape, you can quickly change the color of text, the inside (fill) color, or the color of the border. Let's select the shape—the Drawing Tools appear in the ribbon, with the Format tab active. Here's the same shape after we changed the border to orange, the fill to a light green, and the text to black.
Change the look and feel of Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Support
WEBYou can choose your Windows look in Windows 11 by launching the Settings app and navigating to Personalization > Colors > Choose your mode. Use different themes and backgrounds to change the look and feel of Microsoft 365.
Add an outline, shadow, reflection, or glow text effect
WEBChange the look of your text or WordArt by changing its fill or outline, or by adding an effect, such as a shadow, reflection, or glow. Select your text or WordArt. On the Home tab, select Text Effects. Choose the effect you want.
Add a fill or effect to a shape or text box - Microsoft Support
WEBYou can change the look of a shape or text box by changing its fill or by adding effects to it, such as shadows, glows, reflections, soft edges, bevels, and three-dimensional (3-D) rotations. A fill is a color, pattern, texture, picture, or gradient applied to the interior of a shape. A gradient is a gradual progression of colors and shades ...