I'm going to show you one of my favorite
features in PowerPoint 2007 themes a
theme is a predefined combination of
colors fonts and effects that can be
applied to your presentation instead of
spending time formatting your slides
built-in themes allow you to easily
create professional-looking
presentations when you create a new
presentation there is a theme applied
even though the slide background is
white this theme is called the office
theme and it is the default theme for
all presentations now that I've started
my presentation I'm ready to apply a
different theme to my slides and make
the presentation look professional
to view the built in themes select the
design tab and locate the themes group
each of these thumbnail images
represents a theme if you don't see one
you like click the drop down arrow to
access more themes and now we can see a
few more in the menu that appears you'll
also notice that you have the option of
accessing themes on Microsoft Office
online or creating your own to see a
live preview of the theme in the
presentation just hover over an image
the name of the theme will appear and a
live preview of it will appear on the
selected slide you may have noticed it
was some of the themes the text I
already have on my slides may not fit
correctly some people choose to add a
theme to their presentation before they
even start entering their text so that
this won't happen but some people prefer
to insert some or all of their text onto
the slides before for
adding it you'll find what works for you
and don't worry if you like a theme that
doesn't look quite right we'll show you
how to modify it now to select a theme
just click it let's try this aspect
theme in lesson 3
I changed the fonts in the title slide
from the default Scalabrine to imprints
MT shadow and brush scripts MT you'll
see that those fonts did not change when
I apply the new theme when you change a
fonts for specific text that fonts will
be the same no matter which theme you
choose but on the other slides you'll
see that the default caliber II has
changed for the body and the title text
if you want to change to a new theme and
see how the colors and fonts change
just click the theme you'd like to use
here I like this urban one you can see
that a new background and colors have
been applied to each slide also each
slide has this accent at the top that is
parts of the urban theme the thoughts
are still the same on the title slide
but the text on the other slides has
changed if you're happy with the way a
theme looks when you apply it to your
slides you are finished formatting your
presentation with just that one click
sometimes you may not find a theme that
is exactly what you had in mind but if
you choose one that gets you close to
what you want then you can change the
themes colors fonts and effects
individually I'm pretty happy with this
theme but I want to show you how you can
change the individual components to
change the theme colors select the
colors command in the themes group on
the design tab
as you hover over each colored group a
live preview of the color combination
will appear in the presentation if you
like any of these just click it to
select it or if you like the theme you
have currently but just want to change
some of the colors just click create new
theme colors this opens a dialog box
where you can change any of the theme
colors for example I could click the
exit to color box and choose a new color
then give a name for this new color
combination well then the workshop and
click Save now you can see the color
change reflected in the urban theme you
can change your theme fonts just like
you did with the theme colors since our
title slide fonts won't change I'll just
select slide two to show you how this
works
just click the fonts command as you
hover over each fonts option you'll see
the fonts displayed on the slide if you
see an option you like just click it to
select it or choose create a new theme
fonts to modify the current theme or
create an entirely new one the theme
effects command changes a default
effects for the pictures charts SmartArt
graphics and more we'll just leave that
as it is right now in addition to themes
you have background styles you can apply
a background style to a theme to change
the backgrounds color
let's click the background styles
command to take a look at the available
styles it doesn't look like much I know
but these styles are really neat the
background colors are all colors that
blend nicely with their urban theme and
colors just click a style to select it
notice how the text change to a lights
color when we chose a dark background
color dark slides have light text and
light slides have dark text what makes
the background styles interesting is
that the color options change based on
the theme you are using for example if I
switch to another theme the background
styles available will be different from
here you can also select formats
background to open a dialog box and make
changes to the color transparency
gradient fill and more there's a lot you
can do here but I'll let you explore
that on your own I actually don't want
to use a different theme or background
style so I'm just going to go back to my
themes group and click on my urban theme
I hope you can see how powerful themes
are in PowerPoint 2007 and how you can
use background styles to customize a
presentation even more