Each design template includes several color schemes from which you can choose. A color scheme is a set of eight coordinated colors that applies 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. You may want to use the same presentation for both onscreen and overhead delivery, but they require different color schemes.
To apply a new color scheme to your presentation, follow these steps:
Click the Design button on the Formatting toolbar. The Slide Design task pane opens.
Click the Color Schemes link on the Slide Design task pane. The available color schemes for the design template of the current presentation appear (see Figure 6.8).
Select a new color scheme; PowerPoint applies it to your presentation.
→ For more information about color theory, see “Using Color” in Chapter 23, “The Media—Designing Visual Support.”
If you want to view larger previews of the available color schemes, click the down arrow to the right of any scheme and choose Show Large Previews from the shortcut menu that appears. The preview schemes will increase in size. To go back to the normal-size previews, select this option again to remove the check mark.
To apply a different color scheme to selected slides, follow these steps:
Select the slide or slides to which you want to apply a separate color scheme.
Select the preview of that scheme on the Slide Design task pane.
Click the down arrow to the right of the selected scheme.
Choose Apply to Selected Slides. PowerPoint applies the color scheme only to the selected slides. The unselected slides retain the original design template.
To return to a single color scheme, select that scheme and choose Apply to All Slides from the menu that appears when you click the down arrow.
Caution
Although the capability to apply multiple color schemes to your presentation adds flexibility and creativity, be sure not to overdo it. Consider carefully before applying more than one color scheme to verify that your presentation is still consistent and readable.
In addition to applying a new color scheme to your actual presentation, you can also apply color schemes to notes or handouts that you create.
To apply a color scheme to notes, select View, Notes Page and then apply a color scheme from the Slide Design task pane.
To apply a color scheme to handouts, select View, Master, Handout Master and then apply a color scheme from the Slide Design task pane.
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 the Slide Design task pane:
Click Edit Color Schemes to open the Edit Color Schemes dialog box with the Custom tab selected, displayed in Figure 6.9.
Choose the object whose color you want to change, such as the background or title text.
Click the Change Color button, which displays the Background Color dialog box. Figure 6.10 shows this dialog box.
→ For more details on color selection dialog boxes, see “Specifying Colors” in Chapter 14, “Creating and Formatting Objects.”
Click OK to return to the Edit Color Scheme dialog box.
Click the Preview button to preview this new color in your presentation.
Click Apply to apply the color scheme.
Click the Add As Standard Scheme button if you want to add this scheme to your selections on the Slide Design task pane (see Figure 6.11).
You can now apply this new color scheme as you would any other color scheme.
You can delete a color scheme just as easily as you created a new one. To delete a color scheme, go to the Standard tab on the Edit Color Scheme dialog box, select the scheme you no longer want, and click the Delete Scheme button.
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