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Each Microsoft PowerPoint theme includes a built-in color scheme to apply to your slides. If you don’t like the available choices, you can create custom color schemes in PowerPoint to use in your presentation.
1Open the Design tab by clicking it on the Ribbon.
The Design Idea feature in PowerPoint 2016 is quite amazing. Saving us alot of time in order for us to concentrate more on what we want in our Presentation. Below you can check out the video describing the Design Ideas feature in PowerPoint 2016.
The Design tab kicks into action.
2Select a color scheme to use.
Colors in a scheme work as a unit to make your presentation attractive.
3Click the Theme Colors button and then choose Create New Theme Colors.
The Create New Theme Colors dialog box appears.
4Click the button for the color you want to change.
For example, to change the first accent color, click the Accent 1 button. This summons a gallery of color choices.
5Pick a color you like.
What’s your mood today: red, blue, green, something else?
6If you don’t like any of the choices, click the More Colors button.
This brings up the Colors dialog box.
7Click the color that you want and then click OK.
You’re whisked back to the Create New Theme Colors dialog box.
8(Optional) Repeat steps 3 through 6 for any other colors you want to change.
You can recolor until your heart’s content.
9Choose Save.
Your custom color scheme is saved.
The Standard tab of the Colors dialog box shows 127 colors, plus white, black, and shades of gray. To use a color that doesn’t appear in the dialog box, click the Custom tab to view the custom color controls.
When static guides are enabled in any presentation,they show up in the same position on all other slides. You'll find that only two Static guides (one horizontal and one vertical) arevisible at first, and these two guides intersect at the center of the slide. Most of the time, this might work for you, but to helpyou in positioning slide objects better across successive slides, you can add more guides as explained below:
- Launch PowerPoint 2011,and make sure that the static guides are visible.In Figure 1 you can see the Title slide with default guides visible.
Figure 1: A PowerPoint slide with guides visible- It's a good idea to make the Ruler visible inyour presentation, as you can see highlighted in red within Figure 2, below, rulers giveyou more control over positioning of the new guides.
Figure 2: Rulers made visible in PowerPoint- Place you cursor over any of the guides (for this tutorial we have placed the cursor over the vertical guide), and clickit so that it is selected as shown in Figure 3, don't release your mouse click yet. As long as the guide shows digitsdefining its position in the cursor (highlighted in red within Figure 3), you can beassured that it has been selected.
Figure 3: Selected guide's position indicated on cursor- With your hold on the cursor still active to keep the guide selected, press the Option (Alt) key on thekeyboard and drag the mouse towards right or left of the slide to create a new guide. You'll see a live indicator of the position ofthe new guide as you drag the digits indicator, along with a distinct plus sign in the cursor, as shown highlightedin red within Figure 4. Note that if you do not pressthe Option (Alt) key, you will end up moving the guide rather than duplicating it.
Figure 4: New guide being added- Once you have placed the new guide in the required position, first release the mouse button and thenthe Option (Alt) key to place it as a new guide. If you release the Option (Alt) key first, youwill end up moving the selected guide to the new position.
- As shown in Figure 4 above, a new guide has been created 4.00 cm left to the default verticalguide. The default vertical guide is located at 0.00, which places it right in the center, you can create new guides towards both theleft and right of this default guide.
- You can add as many Guides as you want both horizontally and vertically. And if you want to delete the guide just selectit and drag it out of the Slide Area.