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Formatting Documents for Colours, Logos & Fonts Outside of Everbility

How to format your documents to include your colours, logos & fonts outside of Everbility


Word Template Example

Create a Word Document Template

Open a New Document

  • Open Microsoft Word.
  • Click Blank Document.
  • Add your logo and any other design elements you want to include (headers, footers etc.)
header footer

Set Your Preferred Font and Font Sizes

  • Click on Format and then click on Font.
format font

(1) In the Font pop up, you can set:

  • Font (e.g., Calibri, Georgia, Arial, etc.)
  • Size (e.g., 11, 12, etc.)
select font

(2) Select default to apply this to all of your text and choose if you want to apply this to this document only or to all documents.

default option

Set Your Preferred Colours (Font Colours)

  • Select Styles Pane.
styles-pane

This will show you all of the headings/ text that you can customise.

styles pane 2

For this tutorial, we will focus on Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 and Normal text which correspond to your Everbility document.

In the Word Document:

headings

In the Everbility Document:

headings in everbility

For each headng in the word document, click on the down arrow and select Modify Style.

modify style

In the Modify Style pop up, customise colours/ size/ font.

modify popup

In the word document, you can now activate the changes that you have made by: (a) typing text and (b) clicking on the heading style that you want to apply.

(a) Typing your text

type text

(b) Clicking on the heading style

select heading

All heading styles selected

customised headings

You won't need to do this everytime. Below we will show you how to select headings in Everbility.

In your Everbility template, highlight your headings and click on the headings drop down button to select the heading style you want to apply (i.e., heading 1, heading 2, heading 3 etc.)

Everbility headings

When you copy and paste your Everbility document into your word document template, the headings will be applied.

Set Your Preferred Table Design

  • Insert a table into your document.
Insert table
  • Click on the table. Once you click on the table, you will be able to select table design in the menu.
Table Design button one
Table Design button two
  • Select the pull down arrow.
Pull down arrow
  • Select New Table Style.
New table style
  • You can choose to customise the whole table or particular columns/ rows. To do this, click on the drop down menu and select your preference.
Whole table

Customisation of the table can include:

  • Font
  • Font size
  • Font colour
  • Alignment
  • Borders
table customisation

Please Note: You can create multiple table designs and apply them to different tables throughout your document.

  • Select Add to Template and Save.
add to template

In the word document, you can now activate the changes that you have made to tables by: (a) clicking on the table and (b) clicking on the table design that you want to apply.

click on table design
customised table design

Save as a Template

  • Delete all text/ tables that you have created. Dont worry, these have been saved in the document!
delete-text-table
  • Go to File and click Save As Template.
save as template
  • Name your template (e.g., "XYZ Template").
  • Choose the location: Word Template (*.dotx).
  • Save it in the Custom Office Templates folder if you want it easily accessible when you open Word.
save template details

How to Use Your Template

  • Open Word.
  • Go to File and click New from Template.
new from template
  • Select your template (e.g., "XYZ Template").
select template
  • When you have finished writing your document in Everbility, click on the down arrow to export this as a docx.
export-doc-for-template
exported word doc

You can then copy and paste this into your word document template and the fonts/ sizing will be applied.

pasted document into word template
  • For tables, click on the table you want to apply changes to. Select Table Design and then click on the table design you want to apply.
select tables from table design
Word Template Example

Please reach out to support@everbility.com if you have any questions.

For a more detailed tutorial, please Click here to watch the tutorial.

formatting document outside of everbility

Please note: In the tutorial, Everbility Co-Founder Angela uses the Everbility logo in her document. This is to show you how to add your own logo. You do not need to add the Everbility logo onto your document.

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