You have choices when you want to enhance the appearance of your document quickly. You can start creating a document by using a template, or you can apply themes and, if you're in Word, you can apply styles.
Template
Templates are files that help you design interesting, compelling, and professional-looking documents. They contain content and design elements that you can use as a starting point when creating a document. All the formatting is complete; you add what you want to them. Examples are resumes, invitations, and newsletters.
Theme
To give your document a designer-quality look — a look with coordinating theme colors and theme fonts — you'll want to apply a theme. You can use and share themes among the Office for Mac applications that support themes, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. For example, you can create or customize a theme in PowerPoint, and then apply it to a Word document or Excel sheet. That way, all of your related business documents have a similar look and feel.
Word styles
Themes provide a quick way to change the overall color and fonts. If you want to change text formatting quickly, Word styles are the most effective tools. After you apply a style to different sections of text in your document, you can change the formatting of this text simply by changing the style. Word includes many types of styles, some of which can be used to create reference tables in Word. For example, the Heading style, which is used to create a Table of Contents.
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Microsoft Powerpoint Templates For Mac
Application or service | How templates are refreshed after changes |
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Exchange Online Applicable for transport rules and the Outlook web app |
Automatically refreshed within an hour - no additional steps required. |
Azure Information Protection client | Automatically refreshed whenever the Azure Information Protection policy is refreshed on the client: - When an Office application opens that supports the Azure Information Protection bar. - When you right-click to classify and protect a file or folder. - When you run the PowerShell cmdlets for labeling and protection (Get-AIPFileStatus and Set-AIPFileLabel). - When the Azure Information Protection Scanner service starts and the local policy is older than one hour. In addition, the scanner service checks for changes every hour and uses these changes for the next scan cycle. - Every 24 hours. Additionally, because this client is tightly integrated with Office, any refreshed templates for Office 365 apps, Office 2019, Office 2016, or Office 2013 will also be refreshed for the Azure Information Protection client. |
Azure Information Protection unified labeling client | For Office apps, the templates automatically refresh every time the app is opened. Additionally, because this client is tightly integrated with Office, any refreshed templates for Office 365 apps, Office 2019, Office 2016, or Office 2013 will also be refreshed for the Azure Information Protection unified labeling client. For File Explorer, PowerShell, and the scanner, the client doesn't download templates but accesses them online - no additional steps required. |
Office 365 apps, Office 2019, Office 2016, and Office 2013 | Automatically refreshed - on a schedule: - For these later versions of Office: The default refresh interval is every 7 days. To force a refresh sooner than the schedule, see the following section, Office 365 apps, Office 2019, Office 2016, and Office 2013: How to force a refresh for templates. |
Office 2010 | Automatically refreshed when users sign out from Windows, sign back in, and wait up to 1 hour. |
Exchange on-premises with the Rights Management connector Applicable for transport rules and the Outlook web app |
Automatically refreshed - no additional steps required. However, the Outlook web app caches the UI for a day. |
Office 2019 for Mac and Office 2016 for Mac | Automatically refreshed when you open protected content. To force a refresh, see the following section, Office 2019 for Mac and Office 2016 for Mac: How to force a refresh for templates. |
RMS sharing app for Mac computers | Automatically refreshed - no additional steps required. |
Office 365 ProPlus apps with built-in labeling | This built-in labeling client doesn't download templates but accesses them online - no additional steps required. |
Office 365 apps, Office 2019, Office 2016, and Office 2013: How to force a refresh for templates
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To change the automatic schedule
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Using a registry editor, create and set one of the following registry values:
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To set an update frequency in days (minimum of 1 day): Create a new registry value named TemplateUpdateFrequency and define an integer value for the data, which specifies the frequency in days to download any changes to a downloaded template. Use the following information to locate the registry path to create this new registry value.Registry path: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesLocal SettingsSoftwareMicrosoftMSIPCType: REG_DWORDValue: TemplateUpdateFrequency
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To set an update frequency in seconds (minimum of 1 second): Create a new registry value named TemplateUpdateFrequencyInSeconds and define an integer value for the data, which specifies the frequency in seconds to download any changes to a downloaded template. Use the following information to locate the registry path to create this new registry value.Registry path: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesLocal SettingsSoftwareMicrosoftMSIPC Microsoft mouse driver mac.Type: REG_DWORDValue: TemplateUpdateFrequencyInSeconds
Make sure that you create and set one of these registry values, not both. If both are present, TemplateUpdateFrequency is ignored. -
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If you want to force an immediate refresh of the templates, go to the next procedure. Otherwise, restart your Office applications and instances of File Explorer now.
To force an immediate refresh
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Using a registry editor, delete the data for the LastUpdatedTime value. For example, the data might display 2015-04-20T15:52; delete 2015-04-20T15:52 so that no data is displayed. Use the following information to locate the registry path to delete this registry value data.Registry path: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesLocal SettingsSoftwareMicrosoftMSIPC<MicrosoftRMS_FQDN>Template<user_alias>Type: REG_SZValue: LastUpdatedTimeTipIn the registry path, <MicrosoftRMS_FQDN> refers to your Microsoft RMS service FQDN. What does microsoft silverlight do on a mac. If you want to verify this value:Run the Get-AipServiceConfiguration cmdlet for Azure Information Protection. If you haven't already installed the AIPService PowerShell module, see Installing the AIPService PowerShell module.From the output, identify the LicensingIntranetDistributionPointUrl value.For example: LicensingIntranetDistributionPointUrl : https://5c6bb73b-1038-4eec-863d-49bded473437.rms.na.aadrm.com/_wmcs/licensingFrom the value, remove https:// and /_wmcs/licensing from this string. The remaining value is your Microsoft RMS service FQDN. In our example, the Microsoft RMS service FQDN would be the following value:5c6bb73b-1038-4eec-863d-49bded473437.rms.na.aadrm.com
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Delete the following folder and all files it contains: %localappdata%MicrosoftMSIPCTemplates
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Restart your Office applications and instances of File Explorer.
Office 2019 for Mac and Office 2016 for Mac: How to force a refresh for templates
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Open Terminal, and enter the following command:
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Restart Outlook for Mac.
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Create a new email and select Encrypt, and then Verify Credentials.