I spent a good chunk of yesterday afternoon working on a presentation that I need to deliver tomorrow. We have a corporate presentation template but it only really covers the basics (background, standard fonts, etc.). I wanted to change the colour of hyperlinks (because the default blue/purple, depending on whether the link has been clicked or not, did not fit well with the other colours on my slides) but I couldn’t work out how until I stumbled across a blog post from Springhouse Education and Consulting Services.
It seems that the secret sauce is:
- Go to the Design tab
- In the top right of the Themes grouping, click on the Colors down arrow
- Select Create New Theme Colors located at the bottom of the list
- Select the desired color for the Hyperlink as well as the Followed Hyperlink
Whilst I was messing around with font colours, I also added a new font to the theme (we have a corporate typeface that’s used in our external communications but not normally used internally). To do that:
- Go to the Design tab
- In the top right of the Themes grouping, click on the Fonts dropdown
- Select Create New Theme Fonts located at the bottom of the list
- Select the desired fonts for the Headings as well as the Body
These instructions are for PowerPoint 2007 but I’m sure the process is similar in PowerPoint 2010.