WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:07.660 --> 00:00:13.959 I'm going to show you one of my favorite features in PowerPoint 2007 - Themes. 00:00:13.959 --> 00:00:20.860 A theme is a predefined combination of colors, fonts, and effects that can be applied to 00:00:20.860 --> 00:00:26.310 your presentation. Instead of spending time formatting your slides, 00:00:26.310 --> 00:00:33.310 built-in themes allow you to easily create professional-looking presentations. 00:00:33.620 --> 00:00:38.900 When you create a new presentation there is a theme applied even though the slide background 00:00:38.900 --> 00:00:43.770 is white. This theme is called the Office Theme and 00:00:43.770 --> 00:00:50.770 it is the default theme for all presentations. Now that I've started my presentation, I'm 00:00:51.989 --> 00:00:57.590 ready to apply a different theme to my slides and make the presentation look professional. 00:00:57.590 --> 00:01:07.590 To view the built-in themes, select the Design tab and locate the Themes group. 00:01:09.270 --> 00:01:13.630 Each of these thumbnail images represents a theme. 00:01:13.630 --> 00:01:20.630 If you don't see one you like, click the drop-down arrow to access More themes. 00:01:20.990 --> 00:01:25.940 And now we can see a few more in the menu that appears. 00:01:25.940 --> 00:01:32.940 You'll also notice that you have the option of accessing themes on Microsoft Office Online 00:01:32.950 --> 00:01:39.950 or creating your own.To see a live preview of the theme in the presentation, just hover 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:46.569 over an image. The name of the theme will appear and a live 00:01:46.569 --> 00:01:52.759 preview of it will appear on the selected slide.You may have noticed that with some 00:01:52.759 --> 00:01:59.759 of the themes, the text I already have on my slides may not fit correctly. 00:02:00.429 --> 00:02:05.340 Some people choose to add a theme to their presentation before they even start entering 00:02:05.340 --> 00:02:11.110 their text so that this won't happen, but some people prefer to insert some or all of 00:02:11.110 --> 00:02:15.700 their text onto their slides before formatting it. 00:02:15.700 --> 00:02:20.220 You'll find what works for you. And don't worry, if you like a theme that 00:02:20.220 --> 00:02:25.110 doesn't look quite right, we'll show you how to modify it. 00:02:25.110 --> 00:02:32.110 Now, to select a theme, just click it. Let's try this Aspect theme. 00:02:33.980 --> 00:02:40.980 In lesson 3, I changed the fonts on the title slide from the default Calibri to Imprint 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:49.360 MT Shadow and Brush Script MT. You'll see that those fonts did not change 00:02:50.140 --> 00:02:55.700 when I applied the new theme. When you change a font for specific text, 00:02:55.700 --> 00:03:00.480 that font will be the same no matter which theme you choose. 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:07.480 But, on the other slides, you'll see that the default Calibri has changed for the body 00:03:10.750 --> 00:03:16.490 and title text. If you want to change to a new theme and see 00:03:16.490 --> 00:03:22.160 how the colors and fonts change, just click the theme you'd like to use. 00:03:22.160 --> 00:03:28.240 Here...I like this Urban one. You can see that a new background and colors 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:34.490 have been applied to each slide. Also, each slide has this accent at the top 00:03:34.490 --> 00:03:39.490 that is part of the Urban theme. The fonts are still the same on the title 00:03:39.490 --> 00:03:46.490 slide, but the text on the other slides has changed. 00:03:47.740 --> 00:03:51.930 If you're happy with the way a theme looks when you apply it to your slides, you are 00:03:51.930 --> 00:03:58.930 finished formatting your presentation with just that one click! Sometimes you may not 00:04:00.370 --> 00:04:05.220 find a theme that is exactly what you had in mind, but if you choose one that gets you 00:04:05.220 --> 00:04:12.220 close to what you want, then you can change the theme colors, fonts, and effects individually. 00:04:12.410 --> 00:04:17.190 I'm pretty happy with this theme, but I want to show you how you can change the individual 00:04:17.190 --> 00:04:23.229 components. To change the Theme Colors, select the Colors 00:04:23.229 --> 00:04:28.870 command in the Themes group on the Design tab. 00:04:28.870 --> 00:04:34.590 As you hover over each color group, a live preview of the color combination will appear 00:04:34.590 --> 00:04:40.150 in the presentation. If you like any of these, just click it to 00:04:40.150 --> 00:04:46.630 select it. Or, if you like the theme you have currently, 00:04:46.630 --> 00:04:53.630 but just want to change some of the colors, just click Create New Theme Colors. 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:59.240 This opens a dialog box where you can change any of the theme colors. 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:05.540 For example, I could click the Accent Two color box and choose a new color. 00:05:05.540 --> 00:05:12.540 Then, give a name for this new color combination we'll name it Workshop, and click Save. 00:05:14.280 --> 00:05:21.280 Now you can see the color change reflected in the Urban theme. 00:05:22.250 --> 00:05:26.150 You can change your theme fonts, just like you did with the theme colors. 00:05:26.150 --> 00:05:32.180 Since our title slide fonts won't change, I'll just select slide 2 to show you how this 00:05:32.180 --> 00:05:37.650 works. Just click the Fonts command. 00:05:37.650 --> 00:05:44.620 As you hover over each font option, you'll see the fonts displayed on the slide. 00:05:44.620 --> 00:05:50.090 If you see an option you like, just click it to select it, or choose Create New Theme 00:05:50.090 --> 00:05:55.770 Fonts to modify the current theme or create an entirely new one. 00:05:55.770 --> 00:06:02.770 The theme effects command changes the default effects for pictures, charts, SmartArt graphics 00:06:03.770 --> 00:06:08.630 and more. We'll just leave that as it is right now. 00:06:08.630 --> 00:06:14.460 In addition to themes, you have background styles. 00:06:14.460 --> 00:06:20.020 You can apply a background style to a theme to change the background color. 00:06:20.020 --> 00:06:26.320 Let's click the Background Styles command to take a look at the available styles. 00:06:26.320 --> 00:06:30.900 It doesn't look like much, I know, but these styles are really neat. 00:06:30.900 --> 00:06:37.900 The background colors are all colors that blend nicely with the Urban theme and colors. 00:06:38.400 --> 00:06:44.889 Just click a style to select it. Notice how the text changed to a light color 00:06:44.889 --> 00:06:51.650 when we chose a dark background color? Dark slides have light text and light slides have 00:06:51.650 --> 00:06:56.010 dark text. What makes the background styles interesting 00:06:56.010 --> 00:07:01.259 is that the color options change based on the theme you are using. 00:07:01.259 --> 00:07:08.259 For example, if I switch to another theme, the background styles available will be different.From 00:07:13.830 --> 00:07:19.370 here you can also select Format Background to open a dialog box and make changes to the 00:07:19.370 --> 00:07:25.830 color transparency, gradient fill, and more. There is a lot you can do here, but I'll let 00:07:25.830 --> 00:07:31.699 you explore that on your own. I actually don't want to use a different theme 00:07:31.699 --> 00:07:37.320 or background style, so I'm just going to go back to my Themes group and click on my 00:07:37.320 --> 00:07:43.290 Urban theme. I hope you can see how powerful themes are 00:07:43.290 --> 00:07:50.000 in PowerPoint 2007 and how you can use background styles to customize the presentation even more.