Word for Mac - Text Effects

I hope someone can help, or at least point me in the right direction. Using Word for Mac, I find the white typeface on the blue background is too feint. There is a "Text Effects" menu that can darken the typeface (Format-Font-Text Effects-Text Line) but I can't find anyway top save the new settings in my normal template. How can I make the new text effects permanent? Many thanks/ LNF

 

But that doesn't solve the problem. The typeface is too light and when I make a 1% change in the text effects, the typeface (white type on blue screen) is very bright and I can see it. I'm simply trying to find out how to make that simple text effect a permanent feature of the normal.dotx template, or any other way to brighten the type. Thanks/ LNF