Chapter 2
Fashioning a Look for Your Presentation
IN THIS CHAPTER
Changing themes and slide backgrounds
Selecting a theme or background for specific slides
Changing the size of slides
Redesigning your presentation with master slides
From the audience’s point of view, this chapter is the most important in this minibook. What your presentation looks like — which theme and background style you select for the slides in your presentation — sets the tone. From the very first slide, the audience judges your presentation on its appearance. When you create a look for your presentation, what you’re really doing is declaring what you want to communicate to your audience.
This chapter explains how to handle slide backgrounds. It examines what you need to consider when you select colors and designs for backgrounds. You also discover how to select and customize a theme, and how to create your own slide backgrounds. This chapter looks into how to change the background of some but not all of the slides in a presentation. It also explains how to use master slides and master styles to make sure that ...
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