The interface of the layout manager

You use the layout manager to create a colour scheme, edit or delete an existing scheme, or to apply the selected colour scheme to the current document.

Die Standard-Ansicht des Farbschema-Managers

The list

Here you see information about all available colour schemes. The pie chart displays a preview of the colours. By clicking on the arrow icon you open the detailed view of the colour scheme. There are three different categories: diagrams, tables and texts (see below). You must close the layout manager to continue working in the Word document.

Colour scheme

Apply

Select a colour scheme that you want to apply to the current document. All tables and texts in the document are formatted automatically. The colour scheme can be applied to diagrams only when they are updated. A corresponding “Update all graphics” option is available for this.

Create

To create a new colour scheme, you simply need to assign a name. The newly created colour scheme is based optionally on the currently existing colour scheme or the firesys layout colour scheme.

Rename

Give the selected colour scheme a new name.

Delete

Delete the selected colour scheme.

Diagrams

The firesys layout is supplied with a number of diagram templates. These can be changed as follows:

• Axis and data labelling: Font colour and font type
• Colour of the diagram elements

	Good to know
	You can also use this function with Excel diagrams that you created yourself. The prerequisite for this is that the colours used in the diagram are based on the Office design colours.

Tables

Edit

You have the option of designing your tables individually. The column highlighting and the bar colour can be configured for all highlighting variants (previous year, current year, forecast and budget).

Texts

Adapt the standard report to your corporate design. You can change an extensive range of styles. This includes all body, heading and table styles. Changes can be made to the following parameters:

• Font type
• Font size
• Text markup (bold, italics and upper case letters)
• Font colour
• Text alignment (left & right justification, centred and full justification)
• Letter-spacing
• Line below (line colour, type and thickness). This option is only available for headings.

Edit style

View

Edit

Preview

The preview window gives a first impression of the styles. The preview window appears at the bottom of the layout manager.

Expand all/reduce all

Expands or reduces all objects in the list. This makes more information available to you.

Help

Opens the help area which supports you as you work.

See also

Design content in Word
An overview of the firesys layout

Further contents

→ firesys website
→ Customer area
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