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2. In the Manage Themes dialog box:
3. Click OK to close the Manage Themes dialog box.
Notes
• To import themes from another FileMaker Pro file, see Importing layout themes.
• You can’t delete a theme that is in use in a file. You must assign a different theme to the
layouts that use the theme you want to delete, then delete the previous theme.
Related topics
Renaming a layout theme
Saving a layout theme
Importing layout themes
Importing layout themes
You can import themes from other FileMaker Pro files.
Note To import themes, you must have full layout access privileges to both the source and
destination files. For more information, see
Editing existing privilege sets and Editing layouts
privileges.
To import a theme:
1. Open the file into which the theme will be imported.
2. Choose File menu > Manage > Themes.
Tip In Layout mode, you can also choose Layouts menu > Change Theme > Import Themes.
3. In the Manage Themes dialog box, click Import.
4. Select the file that contains the themes you want to import, then click Open.
5. In the Import Themes dialog box, select the themes you want to import.
6. Click OK.
The imported themes appear in the Manage Themes dialog box in the order they were
imported.
7. Click OK to close the Manage Themes dialog box.
When you import a theme, FileMaker Pro logs an entry in an import.log file located in the same
folder as the database. Double-click the log file to view log entries.
To Do this
Rename a theme Select a custom theme, click Rename, then type a new name.
Tip To rename a predefined theme, duplicate the theme, then
rename the copy.
Duplicate a theme Select a theme, and click Duplicate.
Copy and paste a theme Select a theme and press Ctrl+C (Windows) or Command-C
(OS
X), then press Ctrl+V (Windows) or Command-V (OS X).
Delete a theme Select a theme, then click Delete.