Creating a Presentation in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 for Windows: Visual QuickProject Guide

4. choose a theme

With your presentation’s content set, it’s time to start dressing up your slides. You’ll do that in this chapter by selecting a theme for your presentation. A theme provides the visual look of the slides—the slide design—throughout the whole presentation, including elements like a background image for the slides, the color palette, and the style and color of the text you put on the slides. In Office 2007, themes are shared between PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook, making it easy to apply a consistent look to documents produced by any of these programs.

You’ll also apply a slide layout to each slide in your presentation, matching the layout to the content of the slide. For example, you’ll apply the Title Slide layout to ...