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  Overview of Office themes
  
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  What can I do with theme colors?
  
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  What can I do with theme fonts?
  
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  What can I do with theme effects?
  
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  What are Quick Styles?
  
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  What are PowerPoint background styles?
  

Overview of Office themes

Use themes (theme: A set of unified design elements that provides a look for your document by using color, fonts, and graphics.) to simplify the process of creating professional designer-looking presentations. Theme colors, fonts, and effects not only work in PowerPoint, but they are also available in Excel, Word, and Outlook so your your presentations, documents, worksheets, and e-mails can have a cohesive look.

The same theme used in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.

To try different themes, rest your pointer over a thumbnail in the Themes gallery and notice how your document changes.

Four themes that are applied to the same SmartArt graphic. Clockwise from the upper left: Metro, the default Office theme, Apex, and Trek.

 Tip   To download additional themes from Microsoft Office.com, in the Themes gallery, click the More Themes on Microsoft Office.com. link.

Applying a new theme changes the major details of your document. WordArt (WordArt: Text objects you create with ready-made effects to which you can apply additional formatting options.) effects are applied to titles in PowerPoint. Tables, charts, SmartArt graphics, shapes, and other objects (object: A table, chart, graphic, equation, or other form of information. Objects created in one application, for example spreadsheets, and linked or embedded in another application are OLE objects.) are updated to complement one another. Also, in PowerPoint, even the layouts and backgrounds of your slides can be changed dramatically from theme to theme. If you like the way that a theme looks when you apply it to your presentation, you are finished reformatting with just that one click. If you want to customize your presentation further, you can change the theme colors, theme fonts, or theme effects.

You can use built-in themes or customize a theme in PowerPoint 2010.

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