Welcome to the new PowerPoint Theme Colours
You probably already know that PowerPoint 2007 is a different beast entirely to PowerPoint 2003. So here at Article 10 Presentations we thought we would unravel some of the mysteries for you. Today, we’ll deal with the colour palette. It doesn’t look the same, it doesn’t act the same, it isn’t even called the same thing!
So what has changed exactly? The number of colours for a start. In PowerPoint 2003, there were 8 colours. In PowerPoint 2007, there are now 12 in the Theme Colours palette box. But beware! Not all 12 colours are visible when you want to change text and object colours. Unlike in PowerPoint 2003, the Hyperlink and Followed Hyperlink colours are not displayed as colour options when you are editing text and objects. In addition, the way PPT 2007 uses the colours in graphs is different, so it is a more complex task to create a robust colour palette in PowerPoint 2007. Here’s a breakdown:
- The first four colours are Text and Background colours. There are two options for each (i.e. Text and Background Option 1, and Text and Background Option 2.
- The next six are Accent colours. These are the colours that affect your charts and graphs and will appear in order.
- The last two are Hyperlink and Followed Hyperlink colours. These will NOT appear as options when you are editing objects. The only time these will come into effect are when you have created actual Hyperlinks. This is in comparison to PowerPoint 2003, where all the colours in the palette were available for use.
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Another benefit of the PowerPoint 2007 Theme Colours is that it now gives you multiple options of tints for each of your chosen colours. The only disadvantage to the new version is that the colour palette is not automatically saved with the Master Template, and so if a Template is distributed, the Theme has to be saved externally and installed on the user’s computer. And if you’re baffled by the new Themes set up, then keep your eye out for our instalment on it!
