Question
What is the theme in PowerPoint?
Answer
When you create a new PowerPoint presentation, it will automatically prompt you to select a theme, so that you can see how all your content is going to look. That way you'll see how the theme colors look on certain things you add, such as charts or tables. The theme supplies the look and feel, in terms of slide design, of the presentation. It applies the background design, placeholder layout, colors, and font styles to your slides and slide elements.
The Design tab is where to go to browse themes. A gallery like the one for design templates that you may have used in earlier PowerPoint versions appears here under Themes. Each theme has a name, which shows when you hover your mouse over the theme.
Click the arrow on the right of the Themes group to get more choices and information, such as which themes (since you can use more than one) are used in the presentation and for links to other themes.
The theme you choose is complete design. But where's the fun if you can't do some tweaking? The Design tab has other galleries in case you want to modify the theme. To access these options, you must click the arrow at the bottom right of the Variants group.
- Colors: There's a set of colors for every available theme; you can select your theme's colors and modify any of them.
- Fonts: Click any sample from the Fonts gallery to apply it to the slides. Each includes a font for title text and one for body text.
- Effects: These are a range of visual effects for shapes, such as a glow, soft edges, or a three-dimensional (3-D) look.
- Background Styles: Subtly change the theme's background while keeping within the set of theme colors.
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