Tips for working with the Office Live modules and some ideas for dressing them up a bit.  These tips work for the modules, contact form, blog, forms and lists to varying degrees. 

changing text color

You can change the font color and sometimes the weight of some or all of the text in many of the modules. Type a letter, highlight it and change it to what you want.  a|  Place your cursor directly after the letter and insert the module.  Carefully delete the letter.

A short cut is to leave the letter highlighted and click on module.  The module will replace the letter with the color change. 

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The Subscribe to Newsletter module with bold text.  The success message is also in orange.

The font size doesn't seem to change, despite appearing to do so in the page editor.

justifying the text in modules

Some of the modules, blog and forms will take on the justification of the text.  They can be changed to left, right or center.  Justify the cursor before inserting the module.  The change doesn't appear in the page editor, only when viewed.  The Town and State is (hopefully) centered  and bold when you view this weather module.

To center a module in an area and have the text justified differently use a table.  Center the table, then justify the cursor inside the table before inserting the module.

be creative with modules and forms

Place them in tables and use color, images and table background images to create a custom look.

images & tables

modules

customize header

navigation

create a gallery

forms

 css codes

resources

tell a friend

feedback