3. Customizing Theme Effects
In addition to colors and fonts, you can also apply
new effects that coordinate with your theme. These effects affect the
look of tables, text, charts, diagrams, shapes, and pictures. Theme
effects play a particularly important role with objects to which you’ve
applied shape styles.
On the Design tab, click the Effects button to apply a
new theme effect to your presentation. A gallery of theme effects
displays, as shown in Figure 3.8.
Pause your mouse over each effect to preview it on
your presentation. Note that changes display only if your slide content
is affected by theme effects. Click the effect you prefer to apply it to
your presentation.
4. Working with Custom Themes
If you modify the fonts, colors, and effects of a
theme, you might want to save it to apply to future presentations. For
example, you might want to create a custom theme to use throughout your
company.
Creating and Saving a Custom Theme
To create a custom theme, follow these steps:
1. | Make any theme changes such as changes to your theme’s colors, fonts, and effects.
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2. | On the Design tab, click the down arrow to the right of the Themes box.
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3. | Select Save Current Theme from the gallery. The Save Current Theme dialog box opens, as shown in Figure 7.
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4. | Enter a file name for your new theme.
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5. | Click the Save button to save your theme as an Office Theme file type (*.thmx) stored in the Document Themes folder.
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Your theme is now available to select from the gallery.
