Echo Swinford and Julie Terberg’s “ Building PowerPoint Templates Step by Step with the Experts” Conclusion.“Getting Started with PowerPoint: Set Up a Theme” by Echo Swinford and Julie Terberg.You can save the color palette to your computer by customizing the color palette and saving the name:įor more tips and advice on how to build your own custom themes, check out the following resources: What this means is that you can use the color palette it’s just not visible in the dropdown menu. It’s definitely there, as you can see in the shapes on the slide, as well as the shape fill options:

Note: Keep in mind that when you share your presentation with someone who doesn’t have your custom theme saved on their local computer, when they open the colors drop down, they may not see your custom color palette there. To learn everything there is to know about PowerPoint backgrounds, and how to create them read our guide here.

Set that background to apply to all of your slides.

Hide any design elements you’ve put in the background of the Slide Master.

Set the fill type (solid color, gradient, picture or texture, or pattern).

Once you’ve opened this task pane, you can choose how you want to format your background. To change the background of the entire Slide Master, do the same as above, but make sure you scroll up to the parent slide first.

Go to the Ribbon > Background Styles > Format Background.

To change the background of a Slide Master layout, in the Slide Master View, go to that layout and either:

Right-click your slide > Format Background.

To change the background of just one slide, in the Normal View, you can get to the Format Background task pane two ways: These are all managed by the ‘Format Background’ task pane. You can customize the slide background by adding one of the following: You can format a single slide, a single Slide Master layout, or an entire Slide Master (the parent slide layout). Now your presentation’s fonts are set according to your customization.Ī common thing people like to do with their slides is to format the slide background. Once you’ve set your fonts, type in a name for that specific combination (best practice is to be as descriptive as possible), and then click Save. There’s nothing more embarrassing and frustrating than having a beautifully made template completely warp out on you…and you’re stuck with fixing it or settling for ugly slides.Īnd while it is possible to embed custom fonts into your presentation, doing so comes with a few problems, so I rarely recommend it. Unless you know EXACTLY who else is going to use the template and know for a fact that they have the same custom fonts installed on their computer, I would avoid custom fonts entirely. To learn more about safe fonts you can use in PowerPoint, that will work in any version of PowerPoint (Mac or PC), see our guide here. There is a very big risk when you use custom fonts in a template that the resulting presentations that are created from the template will not function properly on another person’s computer. Be careful with using custom fonts in a template You can use the standard fonts from Office, or any custom fonts that you have installed on your computer. Make your selections for Heading font and Body font.

Navigate to the Color Palettes drop down.

Now that you know what types of colors should be assigned to each space, here’s how to make those changes:

How to create color themes for PowerPoint presentations by Johanna Rehnvall.

Super Fast, Custom Color Themes by Julie Terberg.

Creating a consistent color palette in PowerPoint isn’t difficult by Julie Terberg.

Pro Tip: How to choose nice color palettesįor tips on what colors to pick and how to make a color palette, check out the following resources: One suggestion for this, is to make Accent 1 and Accent 2 be the same brand color. Custom shapes and lines are automatically using the Accent 1 color.” So if you do a lot of SmartArt and want the main brand color to be used, avoid setting it to Accent 1. However, when you use SmartArt, for some reason the Accent 1 color is not used. The order is important.Īs Johanna Rehnvall of Presentitude says, “most organizations set their main brand color as the Accent 1 color. That means that you want to make sure that colors 1 and 3 are light, and colors 2 and 4 are dark, and the accent colors reflect the colors you want to assign to objects.

When you’re creating a new color palette, you want to make sure that you stick to the color types indicated in the palette, because this is how PowerPoint will assign colors to your presentation. The first set of four colors defines the colors of the slide backgrounds and of the text, and the second set (the six accent colors) defines the colors for shapes, tables, charts, SmartArt, etc.

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