Choosing a New Slide Color Scheme

Each design template includes several color schemes (p. 39) from which you can choose. A color scheme is a set of eight coordinated colors that apply to the following parts of your slides:

  • Background

  • Text and lines

  • Shadows

  • Title text

  • Fills

  • Accent

  • Accent and hyperlink

  • Accent and followed hyperlink

For example, you may like a basic design template, but prefer to use different colors. Or you may want to use the same presentation for both onscreen and overhead delivery, but they require different color schemes.

Applying a Color Scheme

To apply a new color scheme to your presentation, follow these steps:

  1. Choose Format, Slide Color Scheme to open the Color Scheme dialog box, shown in Figure 6.11.

    Figure 6.11. Use this dialog box to modify your presentation's color scheme.

  2. In the Color Scheme group box, select the new color scheme that you want to apply. To preview what it will look like, click the Preview button.

    Tip

    You may have to move the Color Scheme dialog box by dragging it to preview your presentation.


  3. Click Apply to apply the color scheme to the current slide.

    Click Apply to All to apply the color scheme to the entire presentation.

→ For more information about color theory, see "Using Color,"

Creating a Custom Color Scheme

Occasionally you may want to customize the individual colors in a color scheme. For example, you may like a particular scheme, but want to modify only the background color. To do this, follow these steps from within the Color Scheme dialog box:

  1. Click the Custom tab, displayed in Figure 6.12.

    Figure 6.12. Change the color of certain areas of your presentation to customize it.

  2. Choose the object whose color you want to change, such as the background or title text.

  3. Click the Change Color button, which displays the Background Color dialog box. Figure 6.13 shows this dialog box.

    Figure 6.13. Choose a standard color or specify a custom color.

  4. Choose a color from the Standard tab or formulate a custom color on the Custom tab. The New preview box compares this new color with the Current color.

    → For more details on color selection dialog boxes, see "Specifying Colors,"

  5. Click OK to return to the Color Scheme dialog box.

  6. Click the Preview button to preview this new color in your presentation.

  7. Click Apply to apply the color scheme to the current slide. Click Apply to All to apply the color scheme to the entire presentation.

  8. Open the custom color tab again and click the Add As Standard Color Scheme if you want to add this scheme to your basic selections on the Standard tab (see Figure 6.14) .

You can now apply this new color scheme as you would any other color scheme.

Tip

To delete a color scheme, select it and click the Delete Scheme button on the Standard tab.


Figure 6.14. The color scheme you created is now a standard selection.


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