January 2007
Beginner
320 pages
7h 19m
English
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Reapplying Themes, Colors, and Fonts
It's great having the freedom to apply your own custom colors, fonts, and effects—until you make so many changes that your presentation looks like something your three-year-old might have created. Luckily, if that happens, you can reapply PowerPoint's professionally designed themes, color schemes or fonts to your presentation, which clears most of your changes and lets you start over from scratch. Reapplying themes is also a great way to try out new looks.
Warning
Because many themes feature different fonts, your text may appear misaligned after you reapply a theme or font. To avoid having to flip through slides and fix misaligned text, apply the theme you want before you've filled all 600 of your intricately laid-out slides with text.
Reapplying a Theme
Themes contain information that tells PowerPoint what fonts, colors, images, and layouts to apply to your presentation. You can reapply a theme after you've added content to your slides, but be aware that depending on the theme you choose to reapply, you may have to go back through your slides and eyeball them to make sure they look okay. (Different fonts and sizes can make a presentation that looked great in one theme look terrible in another.)
To reapply a theme:
If you want to reapply a theme to one or more slides—but not all the slides in your presentation—select the slides you want to change.
Section 5.2.3 shows you how to select multiple slides.
In the Design → Themes group, right-click the ...
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