Tech tips: How to apply color and design to my slides (theme) in MS Powerpoint 2013
You’re not a professional designer but you want your presentation to look like you are – themes do all that for you – you just pick one and go!
When you open PowerPoint, you’ll see the built-in, colorful slide designs (known as themes) that you can apply to your presentations.
Step 1: Pick a theme
Tips: These built-in themes are great for widescreen (16:9) and standard screen (4:3) presentations. To change the screen size, see Change the slide size to standard or widescreen.
Step 2: Choose a color variation, and then click Create
If you change your mind, you can always change the theme or variant later on the Design tab.
Here’s how:
- On the Design tab, pick a theme with the colors, fonts, and effects that you like.
To preview how the current slide looks with a theme applied, rest your pointer over the thumbnail of each theme.
- To apply a different color variation of a particular theme, in the Variants group, pick a variant.
Source: Microsoft
