Microsoft PowerPoint XP/X

Customizing Slide Elements

You can change the look of one or more slides in your presentation without changing the Slide Master. You can make small changes such as changing the color of an AutoShape or the font used for specific text. You can also make more comprehensive changes such as changing the color scheme or bullet style. By customizing the slides in your presentation, you can add a unique look that reflects your personal style.

WARNING: You can change a slide to differ from the Slide Master, but you cannot apply a template to an individual slide. Whenever you apply a template, the entire presentation is affected, and any background items you have added and any changes you have made to the master title or master text will be lost.

If you would like to alter the master slides, refer to Customizing a Master Slide. If you would like to change templates, refer to Changing to a Different Template.

This document contains information on the following topics:

Customizing Fonts
Customizing Bullets
Customizing Backgrounds
Omitting Background Images
Changing the Color of Objects
Changing the Slide Color Scheme

Customizing Fonts

You can change the color, size, and style of your font. This can add special emphasis to specific text or set your style apart from the rest. If you want the changes you make to apply to all slides, make these changes to the Slide Master (see Customizing a Master Slide).

Customizing Fonts: Format Menu

Select the text you want to change
From the Format menu, select Font...
The Font dialog box appears.
Make the desired changes to Font, Color, Size, Font Style, and Effects
NOTES:
If you do not see the color you want, from the Color pull-down list, select More Colors…
To create a custom color, see Using the Colors Dialog Box: Selecting Custom Colors

Customizing Fonts: Formatting Palette

Macintosh Only:

Select the text you want to change
From the Formatting Palette, under Font, make the desired changes to Font, Color, Size, Font Style, and Effects
NOTES:
If you do not see the color you want, from the Color pull-down list, select More Colors…
To create a custom color, see Using the Colors Dialog Box: Selecting Custom Colors.

Customizing Bullets

You can change the style, color and size of your bullets in the Bullet dialog box. Using the Bullet dialog box, you can apply a new bullet style to a single bulleted list, or you can set the bullet styles for an entire presentation using the Slide Master. Complete instructions for customizing bullets are given in the Working with Bulleted and Numbered Text document under Changing the Format of Bullets and Numbering.

Customizing Bullets: Dialog Box

Select the bulleted list you want to customize
From the Format menu, select Bullets and Numbering...
The Bullets and Numbering dialog box appears.
Select desired bulleted list
OPTIONAL: To use picture bullets, refer to Working with Picture Bullets document for FrontPage 2002.
Click OK

Customizing Bullets: Slide Master

Customizing bullets on the Slide Master will affect all of the bulleted lists in your presentation.

From the View menu, select Master » Slide Master
The Slide Master and Slide Master View toolbar appears.
Select the bulleted item/level you want to customize
From the Format menu, select Bullets and Numbering...
The Bullets and Numbering dialog box appears.
Select desired bulleted list
Click OK

Customizing Bullets: Formatting Palette

Macintosh Only:

The Formatting Palette can be used to customize a single bulleted list or all of the lists through the slide master.

If the Formatting Palette is not displayed, from the View menu, select Formatting Palette
NOTE: When the Formatting Palette is displayed, there will be a check mark next to it in the View menu.
Select the list you want to customize
From the Formatting Palette, in the Bullets and Numbering section, make desired changes to size, style, and color

Customizing Backgrounds

You can change the background color of your slides. You can also add shading, texture or a pattern. If you want the changes you make to apply to all slides, make these changes to the Slide Master (see Customizing a Master Slide).

Display the slide you want to change or the slide master
Windows: From the Format menu, select Background...
Macintosh: From the Format menu, select Slide Background...
The Background dialog box appears.
From the Background fill pull-down list, select a color
HINT: For instructions on how to further modify your color by using the More Colors or Fill Effects option, refer to Customizing Slides: Using Color.
If you want the changes applied only to the current slide, click APPLY
OR
If you want the changes applied to all your slides, click APPLY TO ALL

Omitting Background Images

For some slides in your presentation, background images may be in the way or not fit with the content of a particular slide. You can remove the background images that are part of the master or template on one or more of your slides. When removing background images, PowerPoint only gives the option of removing all of the images included in the background. You cannot select certain images to omit.

Display the slide from which you want to remove the images
Windows: From the Format menu, select Background...
Macintosh: From the Format menu, select Slide Background...
The Background dialog box appears.
Select the Omit background graphics from master option
To remove the background images from the current slide, click APPLY
OR
To remove the background images from all slides, click APPLY TO ALL

Deleting Other Images

Display the slide from which you want to remove the images
Select the image
White fill handles appear around the item.
Press [Delete]
The item is deleted.

Changing the Color of Objects

Changing the Color of AutoShapes

You can change the color of AutoShapes on your slides using the FILL COLOR button from the Drawing toolbar. Complete instructions are given in the Drawing in Office XP document Formatting AutoShapes: Changing the Color.

Changing the Colors in Clip Art or a Picture

NOTE: You can recolor clipart from the Microsoft PowerPoint collection only.

Select the clipart or picture you want to recolor
From the Format menu, select Picture...
OR
From the Picture toolbar, click FORMAT PICTURE
The Format Picture dialog box appears.
Select the Picture tab
At the bottom of the dialog box, click RECOLOR...
The Recolor Picture dialog box appears.
In the Original: column select the color you would like to change
In the New column, select a new color using the pull-down list
OPTIONAL: For more color choices, select More Colors...
For instructions on how to further modify your color by using the More Colors or Fill Effects options, see Customizing Slides: Using Color.
Repeat steps 5 and 6 as necessary
To preview your changes, click PREVIEW
When you are finished adjusting the color, click OK
Click OK

Changing the Slide Color Scheme

Selecting a Different Slide Color Scheme

You can change the color of all of a slide's components by changing its color scheme.

Windows:

From the Other Task Panes pull-down list, select Slide Design - Color Schemes
The Slide Design - Color Schemes task pane appears.
OR
1. From the Format menu, select Slide Design...
  The Slide Design task pane appears.
2. Click Color Schemes
  The Slide Design - Color Schemes task pane appears
Select the color scheme you wish to use
From each scheme's pull-down list, to accept the changes for the current slide, click APPLY TO SELECTED SLIDES
OR
To accept the changes for all slides, click APPLY TO ALL SLIDES

Macintosh:

If the Formatting Palette is not displayed, from the View menu, select Formatting Palette
NOTE: When the Formatting Palette is displayed, there will be a check mark next to it in the View menu.
From the Formatting Palette, in the Presentation section, under Theme, from the Color scheme pull-down list, select the desired color scheme
The color scheme is now applied to the slide.

Customizing the Slide Color Scheme

You may customize the color of each of the components of your slide's color scheme (e.g., background, title text, fills, etc.).

Windows:

From the Other Task Panes pull-down list, select Slide Design - Color Schemes
The Slide Design - Color Schemes task pane appears.
OR
1. From the Format menu, select Slide Design...
  The Slide Design task pane appears.
2. Click Color Schemes
  The Slide Design - Color Schemes task pane appears.
In the Color Scheme task pane, click EDIT COLOR SCHEMES...
The Edit Color Scheme dialog box appears.
Select the Custom tab
Under Scheme colors, click the component you wish to change
Click CHANGE COLOR…
The Color dialog box with the corresponding component name appears.
Select the color you wish to use
For instruction on how to further modify your color by using the Color dialog box, see Customizing Slides: Using Color.
To accept the changes, Click OK
To preview your changes, click PREVIEW
To change additional components repeat steps 4-7 as necessary
OPTIONAL: To save your custom color scheme for other presentations, click ADD AS STANDARD SCHEME
To accept the changes for the current slide, click APPLY

Macintosh:

From the Format menu, select Slide Color and Scheme...
OR
From the Formatting Palette, in the Presentation Section, under Theme, from the Color Scheme pull-down list, select Custom Scheme
The Color Scheme dialog box appears
Select the Custom Tab
Select the component you wish to change
Click CHANGE COLOR…
The Colors dialog box appears.
Select the color you wish to use
For instruction on how to further modify your color by using the Colors dialog box, see Customizing Slides: Using Color.
To accept the changes, click OK
To change additional components, repeat steps 3-6 as needed
OPTIONAL: To save your custom color scheme for other presentations, click ADD AS STANDARD SCHEME
To accept the changes for the current slide, click APPLY
OR
To accept the changes for all the slides, click APPLY TO ALL