Office 2007 For Dummies®

Chapter 11. Adding Color and Pictures to a Presentation

In This Chapter

• Using themes

• Changing a background

• Adding graphics

• Showing movies on a slide

• Adding sound to a presentation

To make your presentations look more visually appealing, PowerPoint lets you add color and graphics to your slides. Color and graphics can't turn a worthless presentation into an informative one, but they can enhance an informative presentation and make it easier for people to watch.

Applying a Theme

By default, PowerPoint displays each slide with a white background. Although you could change the colors and appearance of each slide individually, it's much easier to change every slide in your presentation using a theme. A theme provides predesigned colors and designs that are applied to each slide to give your presentation a uniform and professional look.

To define a theme for a presentation, follow these steps:

1. Click the Design tab.

2. Click the More button under the Themes group.

   A menu appears, as shown in Figure 11-1 .

   If you move the mouse pointer over a theme, PowerPoint shows how your presentation will look.

3. Click a theme.

   PowerPoint displays your chosen theme on your slides.

4. Click the Theme Colors icon in the Themes group.

   A menu appears, listing different color variations you can choose for your presentation, as shown in Figure 11-1 .

   

   Figure 11.2.  Figure 11-1: Theme colors let you customize the colors used in your ...