You can open and use externally saved theme files in any Office application. This makes it possible to share color, font, and other settings between applications to create consistency between documents of various types. You can also save and load themes from templates.

To apply a theme to the presentation from a theme or template file, follow these steps

1. On the Design tab, open the Themes gallery and click Browse for Themes. The Choose Theme or Themed Document dialog box opens.
2. Navigate to the folder containing the file and select it (Figure 22-6).
3. Click Apply.

FIGURE 22-6
Select the desired theme in the dialog box.

Any custom themes you might have previously saved are located by default in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes (in Windows Vista) or C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes (in Windows XP). However, you don’t need to navigate to that location to open a theme file because all themes stored here are automatically included in the gallery already.

A theme file contains only one theme, but a template file can potentially contain multiple themes. So how does PowerPoint know which one you want to apply if you apply from a template? If the template file contains any slides, the theme that the first slide uses is applied. Otherwise the first theme in the template (as determined by the order in Slide Master view) is applied.

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