How do I edit a Wordpress theme - Greyed out?

Hi,
I'm new to Dreamweaver and have just successfully setup my Wordpress Site to run in dreamweaver through MAMP.
Using the properties box on the side, I've been able to successfully edit the single line text boxes on my theme.
I am unable to edit any other part of my theme however. Everything I click on the website has all of the options "greyed out" within the properties box.
1) I'm sure this is probably something quite basic, but how do I edit the properties if they're greyed out?
2) Also is there a way to copy the properties from one area to another? "Enter Your Email" is in the same font as "Enter Your Message", but they're displaying differently and I'd like them to match.
3) The menu's on my theme adjust based on the width of the device. On the narrowest width however, they aren't quite lined up correctly. I can't see anything in the properties however (such as margins being used). How would I go about correctly aligning these to the centre?
Thanks Jake

Most wordpress themes have options that can be changed from within the dashboard, a lot of commercial themes even use 'page builders' that offer a GUI to construct new pages. Be careful when making changes to a template if your not sure what your doing as this can break functionality.
As MurraySummers states most pages are constructed on the fly and use a series of templates- header.php/footer.php etc as well as a series of child themes - page.html etc to construct the pages you see on the screen. The only page that exists in wordpress is index.php. Everything is routed using .htaccess and URL rewriting.

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