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I'm working on a business presentation for
a pasta

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company, and right now I'm using the Austin
theme.

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The built-in themes look really good, and
they're

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a great starting point,

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but it's even better if
you can customize them

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so that they are unique to
your company or your project.

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We'll start by going to the Design tab.

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As you may already know, every theme has
its own colors, fonts, and effects,

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and one of the coolest
things about them is that you can

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mix and match
parts from different themes.

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Let's try some different colors.

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The Adjacency colors look good, and you can
see

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that they've changed the background colors,

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and the font colors,
and just about everything else.

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Sometimes, when you change the theme colors,
it

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may not update all of the font colors right
away.

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If that happens, just save and close your
file,

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and then when you reopen it, it should look
right.

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Now to really customize the colors, we can
go back

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to the colors menu,

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and go to Create New Theme Colors.

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Here, we could pick all new theme colors,
but I'm

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just going to change a couple of them.

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If you have a really specific color in mind,
you

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can go down to More Colors.

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And here you can pick the exact color that
you

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want.

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For Accent 2, I think I'm going to go with
kind of

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a dusty orange color.

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And when you're done, you can give the theme
colors a name

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and then save them.

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The fonts work basically the same as the colors.

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You can choose the fonts from a different
theme,

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or you can create new theme fonts.

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And it's up to you whether you want your fonts
to

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have a lot of contrast

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or if you want them to be similar.

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I like to have some contrast so they'll really
stand out.

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And then give the theme fonts a name,

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and save.

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And you can also change the theme effects.

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I think the Paper effects give a really
distinctive look to the logo.

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And finally, every theme is going to have
an

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assortment of background styles

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that you can choose from.

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Once you have everything exactly how you want
it,

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you may want to save the theme.

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Just click the drop-down arrow to open up
the

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Themes menu, and then click Save Current Theme.

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Type a name for the theme, and then save it.

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You have just created your very own theme,
and you

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can now use it in other presentations,

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and you'll even be able to access it
from Word and Excel.

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So if you're giving a presentation, you could
create handouts in Word,

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with some tables and charts from Excel,

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and everything would match the
style of your PowerPoint presentation.