Applying a Theme to All Slides in a Presentation
Applying a Theme to Selected Slides in a Presentation
Applying Themes in Microsoft Word and Excel
Applying a Theme to Selected Slides in a Presentation
Applying Themes in Microsoft Word and Excel
Basically, Themes are like a style sheet for your Office documents. They define how your text appears, where it appears, and alsothe layouts of your slides. Themes also influence how charts look within Excel and PowerPoint, and also how your tables appear in allOffice programs. You can also change the Theme for an Office document, sheet, or slide and watch how this simple task can change theoverall appearance of your content.
Applying a Theme to All Slides in PowerPoint
Applying a Theme to an existing presentation is easy, and you'll find that plenty of Themes are already contained inside Office2016 for Mac. In PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, these Themes can be foundwithin the Design tabof Ribbon, as you can seein Figure 1.
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Figure 1: Office Themes
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Follow these steps to apply a new Theme to a presentation:
- Open an existing presentation, or create a new one in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
- Now, access the Design tab of the Ribbon. As you can seein Figure 2, there are thumbnail previews of several Themes available withinthe Themes gallery. To view the Themes drop-down gallery that contains even more thumbnail previews,click the More button (highlighted in red within Figure 2). This bringsup the Themes drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Themes drop-down gallery- Now, select any of the Themes and click on it to apply. If you clicked by mistake,press ⌘+Z to undo the last action.
Tip: You can also apply any PowerPoint presentation or template as a Theme even if it doesn't show up within theThemes drop-down gallery. To do that, select the Browse for Themes option (highlightedin blue within Figure 2, above) and navigate to wherever the given presentation,template, or Theme is located. Select it, and click the Apply button.
BackApplying a Theme to Selected Slides in PowerPoint
Follow these steps to apply a Theme to selected slides in a presentation:
- Open an existing presentation, or create a new one in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
- Select slides in Slide Sorterview (or within the Slides Pane on the left side of theinterface) that you want to apply a new Theme to. In Figure 3, you can see that we have selected 3 slides withinSlides Pane.
Figure 3: Three Slides selected within the Slides Pane- With these slides selected, access the Design tab of the Ribbon and open the Themesdrop-down gallery. Choose any Theme within the Themes drop-down gallery, andright-click (or Ctrl+click) on the thumbnail of the Theme to bring up the context menu that you cansee in Figure 3.
Figure 4: Context menu within Themes drop-down gallery- In this context menu, choose the Apply to Selected Slides option (refer to Figure 4,above). Alternatively, you can simply click on the thumbnail to apply that Theme to all selected slides.
- This applies the Theme to the slides, selected earlier in the presentation, as you can see withinthe Slides Pane in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Theme applied to selected slides
Applying Themes in Microsoft Word and Excel
The same Themes that you apply in PowerPoint can also be applied in Word and Excel. In both of these programs, the way of accessingThemes gallery is different from that of PowerPoint.
Follow these steps to apply a new Theme to a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet in Office 2016:
- Open an existing Word document or Excel spreadsheet, or create a new one.
- In Excel, access the Page Layout tab of the Ribbon, and clickthe Themes button, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 6.
Figure 6: Themes button within Excel 2016 for Mac- In Word, access the Design tab of the Ribbon, and clickthe Themes button, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 7.
Figure 7: Themes button within Word 2016 for Mac- Clicking the Themes button (highlighted in redwithin Figures 6 for Excel and within Figure 7 for Word) reveals the Themesdrop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8: Themes drop-down gallery in Excel 2016 for Mac- As you can see above in Figure 8, Office is the default Theme for new documents andworkbook (note the highlight surrounding the active Theme). In this gallery, click on the thumbnail of any other Theme to apply it tothe open document or workbook.
Change Only Colors and Fonts?
Powerpoint For Mac
When you apply a Theme in PowerPoint, you add a set of coordinated backdrops, layouts, fonts, effects, colors, etc. Let's just sayyou want to change just the colors and fonts, and retain everything else in your presentation. Can you do that? Sure you can! We'llshow you how to do that in our ApplyingTheme Colors and Theme Fonts in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac tutorial.