Microsoft Office offers a useful feature called Theme (also known as document Themes or design Themes) that can help to apply different designs to the presentation. A Theme is a group of design settings. In PowerPoint, a Theme contains a combination of colors, fonts, graphic effect settings, and in some cases, background graphics or formatting. Show Even a blank presentation has a Theme: the Office theme with a white slide background, a default set of text colors and accents, and an Office font set of Calibri Light for headings and Calibri for body text. Additionally, PowerPoint offers Variants for most of the Themes. Note: One presentation can have multiple themes! A design Theme is a collection of predefined formatting options that includes theme colors, fonts, effects, and background settings. In PowerPoint, all Themes displays in the Themes gallery on the Design tab in the Themes group: The Themes gallery displays thumbnails for each Theme. Each thumbnail represents:
To see the full gallery, use the scroll arrows or click the More button: The Themes gallery contains:
Apply a ThemeIn the Normal or Outline view, hover over a Theme thumbnail to display the theme name in tooltips and see a quick preview of how the new theme will change the presentation slide: Note: In the Slide Sorter view, PowerPoint displays only the theme names in tooltips but not a preview. In the Notes Page view, the Themes group of the Design tab is disabled. To apply a chosen Theme, do one of the following:
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Apply theme variantsMost themes offer various color variations, which are displayed in the Variants group on the Design tab. For example, variants for the Facet theme: If you don't see any options in the Variants group for the selected theme, it might be because it is a custom theme, or an older theme designed for earlier versions of PowerPoint: To see all the proposed variants, if available, use the navigation arrows or click the More button: For example, variants for the Metropolitan theme: Create a Custom ThemeYou can customize any of the sets used in the Theme: Colors, Fonts, Effects, and Background Styles. In addition to saving individual settings, it is possible to save the entire customized theme. To do so, after all customization, do the following: 1. On the Design tab, in the Themes group, click the More button to open the Themes gallery, then click Save Current Theme...: 2. In the Save Current Theme dialog box:
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Modify a custom ThemeIn fact, you cannot edit a custom Theme. You can simply set up the current Theme (custom or predefined) and save it as a new custom Theme by overwriting the existing file. Share a custom ThemeA custom Theme is only available to the current user logged in to the PC, tablet, etc. To share it with other users or locations, do the following: 1. Ensure that the customization is saved - you can see the *.thmx file with the custom name you defined for the custom Theme in the Document Themes folder (see where you can find the Document Themes folder). 2. Copy this *.thmx file to another location you need or send it. Note:
Delete a custom ThemeTo delete a custom Theme, do one of the following:
Note: If you don't want to delete a custom Theme but don't want it showing up on the Themes list, move the file to a folder outside the Document Themes folder (you will need to use the Browse for Themes... option to apply it). |