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Color Schemes I
Color
Schemes II
Color
Schemes and MS Graph
Color
Schemes and PPT 2007
Color
Schemes in PPT can be either a help or a hindrance--and sometimes both! The
trick to making them more helpful than not is to understand how they work-- what
colors are being applied where, and why.
If
you're using PPT 97 or 2000, use Format-->Slide Color Scheme to
get to the PPT color schemes.
If
you're using PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP), the color schemes are under
Format-->Slide Design. Even if you don't want to apply a design template, you
need to use Format-->Slide Design to be able to get to the color scheme.
After you've applied a slide
design by clicking on one of the thumbails and choosing "Apply" from
the arrow on the right of the thumbnail, you can change the color scheme of that
design by clicking on Color Schemes at the top of the taskpane. The design
templates will be replaced by different color scheme options.
By default, the
color scheme that's applied to your slides is the one in the top left of the
color schemes taskpane, as that's what the actual design template is based on.
This is very similar to the
Format-->Slide Color Scheme tab that shows up in PPT 97/2000, but it seems
different at first because it's stretched out on the right.
Now, in PPT97/2000, you can hit the
"Custom" tab in Format-->Slide Color Scheme to get to where you
edit the color scheme. In PPT 2002, that command is at the bottom of the Color
Schemes taskpane; it's a smallish "Edit Color Schemes" textlink.
Click on "Edit Color
Schemes," and you'll get something similar to the picture below.
In this case, I changed the
Shadows color, the Title Text color, and the 2nd Accent color. (Just click the
box, hit the "Change Color" button, select the color you want using
the standard color wheel or the Custom options, and OK your way out of there.)
You can see the results below.
Notice that my modifications have
been saved in the taskpane as a new color scheme.
You might be wondering why, when I
changed the Shadows color, the background of the template changed. Well, this is
because this particular template's background was created using the Shadow color
as the 2nd gradient color for the background.
You can see this by going to
Format-->Background. If you navigate your way to the Fill Effects, you'll see
the following:
Notice that the third swatch is one
of the gradient colors. The third swatch is only labeled "shadows"
because shadows are set to pick up this color by default. But you can use the
color for anything you want.
Notice that the colors from Edit
Color Scheme match the swatches in your paintbucket, line and text tools.
Selecting different color
schemes from the ones in the thumbnails also works like in PPT97/2000.
Here's design template
"Azure" with the default selected. (Had to use this one
somewhere--Azure is my sister's name, hehehe.)
And here it is with one of the
alternative schemes selected. Notice how the swatch colors change, too.
I know this thing has gone on
forever, but it's important that you understand this stuff in order to know how
and why colors will change when you drag a slide with one template into a
presentation based on a different design template. That's covered on the next
page.
Color
Schemes II
Color
Schemes and MS Graph
Working
With Charts
Color
Schemes and PowerPoint 2007
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