Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Step by Step eBook

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15 Format Slides

In this chapter, you will learn how to

✔ Apply themes.

✔ Use different color and font schemes.

✔ Change the slide background.

✔ Change the look of placeholders.

✔ Change the alignment, spacing, size, and look of text.

An overall consistent look, punctuated by variations that add weight exactly where it is

needed, can enhance the likelihood that your message will be well received and

absorbed by your intended audience. To make your Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presen-

tations visually appealing, you can add enhancements to the presentation as a whole or

to individual slides.

In this chapter, you’ll apply a theme to a presentation and then change the theme’s color

and font schemes. You’ll add color and shading to the background of slides and to the

background of placeholders. Finally, you’ll change the look of specific text elements.

Practice Files Before you can complete the exercises in this chapter, you need to copy

the book’s practice files to your computer. The practice files you’ll use to complete the

exercises in this chapter are in the Chapter15 practice file folder. A complete list of

practice files is provided in “Using the Practice Files” at the beginning of this book.

Applying Themes.

When you create a presentation based on a template or a ready-made design, the

presentation includes a theme—a combination of colors, fonts, formatting, graphics,

and other elements that gives the presentation a coherent look. Even a presentation

developed from scratch has a theme; the Office theme is applied by default. This

theme consists of a white background, a very basic set of colors, and the Calibri font.

    Contents

15 Format Slides 423

Applying Themes........................................................ 423

Using Different Color and Font Schemes................................... 426

Changing the Slide Background.......................................... .429

Changing the Look of Placeholders........................................ 433

Changing the Alignment, Spacing, Size, and Look of Text..................... 437

Non–Color Scheme Colors........................................... 444

Key Points.............................................................. 445