Styles vs. Themes
by Cecille Ramirez on September 23rd, 2010Styles are predefined formats for font, line spacing, paragraphs, indents, alignments, borders and shading. Themes on the other hand control the overall look and feel of the document such as colors, fonts and effects.
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Themes give you the fonts and the colors to start with while Styles determine exactly how the colors and the fonts will be used in your entire document.
In analogy, we can say, the sum of all its parts is the Style and the parts are the Themes. In cooking, the Style is the recipe and the Themes are the ingredients.