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If you want to change the theme applied to a presentation, you can choose one from
the Themes gallery. By using the Live Preview feature, you can easily try different effects
until you find the one you want.
See Also For information about creating your own themes, refer to Microsoft PowerPoint
2010 Step by Step, by Joyce Cox and Joan Lambert (Microsoft Press, 2010).
In this exercise, you’ll change the theme applied to one presentation that was created
from scratch and to another that was created from a template.SET UP You need the LandscapingA_start and CompanyMeetingA_start presentations
located in your Chapter15 practice file folder to complete this exercise. Open the
presentations, and save them as LandscapingA and CompanyMeetingA, respectively.
Then follow the steps.- With the LandscapingA presentation active, on the Design tab, in the Themes
group, click the More button.
The Themes gallery appears, displaying all the available themes.
The theme attached to this presentation is identified in the This Presentation area.- Point to each theme thumbnail in turn to see a live preview of what the presentation
will look like with that theme applied.
Notice that the themes are organized alphabetically and that their names appear in
ScreenTips when you point to them.