

Under the “Slide Master” you have the various Slide Layouts. The “Slide Master” determines the background colors, the logos, the fonts and everything that you use in your design.

You can think of the “Slide Master” as the DNA of your presentation. To do this, go to the “View” tab, and then click on the “Slide Master”. To create a corporate theme we’re going to open up the “Slide Master”. How to insert your logo in your PowerPoint design (02:15) I can save the changes that I’ve done, with the fonts and the colors, into a new theme and I can give it my own name.īut in this case we want to create our own corporate design, so we’re not going to use the built-in themes. īy hovering over with the mouse you can quickly see what different fonts would look like in your presentation. You can also change the fonts that are used in the theme. If you don’t like the color combination of a particular theme you can go into the “Colors” tab and you can just change it to one of the built-in color sets. The default theme that is used when you open up a new presentation is the Office theme.Īnd this one is quite neutral. So what I am going to show you now is how you can create your own theme in PowerPoint. PowerPoint comes with built-in themes and some of them are quite okay, and some of them are quite horrible if you ask me. The design theme determines the look and feel for your PowerPoint presentation the background colors, the font that’s used, the colors of the objects, the layout, basically everything about your presentation. If you go to the “Design” tab you will see a number of themes in the theme gallery. Let’s have a look! Part 1 An overview of the built-in themes in PowerPoint (00:47)īefore I show you how to create your own design I’d like to give you an overview of how themes work in PowerPoint. In the second part of the video I’ll show you how you can add new fonts to PowerPoint and also how you can save a design using multiple colors. In the first part of this video I’ll show you how you can create your own design, I’ll show you how you can pick colors from your own logotype to use in the design. But if you want to have your own unique brand identity I really recommend that you create your own. In PowerPoint 2010, there are a number of built in themes that you can use. Having a consistent look and feel across your company presentations is really important if you want to be seen as a professional business. Learn how to use design templates in PowerPoint 2010 Introduction (00:03)
