I'm working on a business presentation for a pasta
company, and right now I'm using the Austin theme.
The built-in themes look really good, and they're
a great starting point,
but it's even better if you can customize them
so that they are unique to your company or your project.
We'll start by going to the Design tab.
As you may already know, every theme has its own colors, fonts, and effects,
and one of the coolest things about them is that you can
mix and match parts from different themes.
Let's try some different colors.
The Adjacency colors look good, and you can see
that they've changed the background colors,
and the font colors, and just about everything else.
Sometimes, when you change the theme colors, it
may not update all of the font colors right away.
If that happens, just save and close your file,
and then when you reopen it, it should look right.
Now to really customize the colors, we can go back
to the colors menu,
and go to Create New Theme Colors.
Here, we could pick all new theme colors, but I'm
just going to change a couple of them.
If you have a really specific color in mind, you
can go down to More Colors.
And here you can pick the exact color that you
want.
For Accent 2, I think I'm going to go with kind of
a dusty orange color.
And when you're done, you can give the theme colors a name
and then save them.
The fonts work basically the same as the colors.
You can choose the fonts from a different theme,
or you can create new theme fonts.
And it's up to you whether you want your fonts to
have a lot of contrast
or if you want them to be similar.
I like to have some contrast so they'll really stand out.
And then give the theme fonts a name,
and save.
And you can also change the theme effects.
I think the Paper effects give a really distinctive look to the logo.
And finally, every theme is going to have an
assortment of background styles
that you can choose from.
Once you have everything exactly how you want it,
you may want to save the theme.
Just click the drop-down arrow to open up the
Themes menu, and then click Save Current Theme.
Type a name for the theme, and then save it.
You have just created your very own theme, and you
can now use it in other presentations,
and you'll even be able to access it from Word and Excel.
So if you're giving a presentation, you could create handouts in Word,
with some tables and charts from Excel,
and everything would match the style of your PowerPoint presentation.