Goodwill Community Foundation creating
opportunities for a better life I'm
working on a presentation for an
advertising company and right now I'm
using the Berlin 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're unique to your company or your
project we'll start by going to the
design tab here on the right you have
the option of choosing a theme variant
just mouse over the options for a
preview variants are different versions
of the theme you're currently using they
let you quickly change your color scheme
and some style elements without giving
up the overall look of the design if
you'd like to customize the look even
further click the drop down arrow here
let's try some new colors the marquee
colors look good and you can see that
they've changed the background colors
and font colors and just about
everything else but the layout has
stayed the same sometimes you may not
like every color in a set of theme
colors fortunately it's easy to change
one or more particular colors to suit
your needs go back to the colors menu
and then go to customize colors here we
could pick all new theme colors but I'm
just going to change a couple of them
I think I'm going to go with a purple
color and when you're done you can just
give the theme colors a name and then
save them
the fonts work basically the same way as
colors you can choose from the built in
theme fonts 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 then just give
the theme fonts a name and save them
you can also change the theme effects
I think the inside effect adds a nice
touch to this 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 your theme
and then save it you have just created
your very own theme and now you can use
it in other presentations and you'll
even be able to access the theme from
word in 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