Adjusting Slide Color Schemes
After applying a design
template, you have two choices. One, accept the color
schemes of that template, or, two, modify those color schemes
to suit your tastes. More often than not, the former is the
preferred way. After all the template provided by PowerPoint
includes color combinations that are balanced with one another. So
it is not recommended that you make wholesale changes to the color
scheme on every slide. However, you may have occasion to change
the color scheme on selected slides for emphasis. For example, if
you have divided your presentation into two or more sections, and
you have a “section title slide” introducing each
section, you may wish to have those title slides use a slightly
varied color scheme.
The Color Scheme Dialog Box
To adjust color schemes on a slide, you must access the
Color Scheme Dialog Box.
- choose Format
Slide
Color Scheme … to open the dialog box
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Color Scheme dialog box, Standard
tab
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Color Scheme dialog box, Custom
tab
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- options using the Standard tab
- the current color scheme and one or more alternate
schemes are presented
- in the example shown above, there are four schemes
presented; the current scheme is the first one on the
left in the first row
- the current scheme will always be the first one
listed
- click on a scheme and then
- click <Preview> to preview the
scheme
- click <Apply> to apply the scheme to the
selected slide
- click <Apply to All> to apply the scheme
to all slides
- click <Cancel> to exit the dialog box
without making any changes
- options using the Custom tab
- the colors for each of the parts of the slide for the
current color scheme are shown
- to make any adjustments
- click on one of the colored boxes
- for example, to change the color used for title
text, click on the colored box next to [Title
Text]
- now click on the <Change Color …>
button
- the Color Dialog Box will appear
- The box will be “named” based upon what
you have selected. For example, if you selected
[Title Text], the dialog box will be named
Title Text Color, if you selected
[Background], the dialog box will be named
Background Text Color.
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the Color Dialog Box
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- the current color will be selected; click on a new
color (note the “Current” and “New”
boxes in the lower left showing the current color and the
new color you have selected)
- click <OK> to select this the new
color
- you will be returned to the Color Scheme Dialog
Box
- repeat to change other colors and then, to apply the
new color(s)
- click <Preview> to preview the
scheme
- click <Apply> to apply the scheme to
the selected slide
- click <Apply to All> to apply the
scheme to all slides
- click <Cancel> to exit the dialog box
without making any changes
The Background Dialog Box
Now that you have adjusted the colors scheme with the choices above, you
may want to change the Background. To do this, you often have to choose FormatBackground …
to open the Background dialog box.
- the current color scheme is shown just below the words Background
fill
- open the drop-down box just below it to select another color
- the current colors in the scheme are shown as colored boxes
below Automatic
- click on More Colors to
select a different color
- click <Preview> to preview the
scheme
- click <Apply> to apply the scheme to
the selected slide
- click <Apply to All> to apply the
scheme to all slides
- click <Cancel> to exit the dialog box
without making any changes
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last updated
August 12, 2003