To understand how PowerPoint changes colors via a theme, you must know something about how it handles color placeholders in general. PowerPoint uses a set of color placeholders for the bulk of its color formatting.

Because each item’s color is defined by a placeholder, and not as a fixed color, you can easily change the colors by switching to a different color theme. That way if you decide, for example, that you want all the slide titles to be blue rather than green, you make the change once and it is applied to all slides automatically.

A group of colors assigned to preset placeholders is a color theme. PowerPoint contains 20+ built-in color themes that are available regardless of the overall theme applied to the presentation. Because most design themes use placeholders to define their colors, you can apply the desired design theme to the presentation and then fine-tune the colors afterward by experimenting with the built-in color themes.

How many color placeholders are there in a color theme? There are actually 12, but sometimes not all of them are available to be applied to individual objects. When you choose a color theme (Design?Colors), the gallery of themes from which you choose shows only the first 8 colors of each color theme. It doesn’t matter so much here because you can’t apply individual colors from there anyway.

When selecting colors from a color picker (used for applying fill and border color to specific objects), as in Figure 22-7, there are 10 theme swatches. And when you define a new custom color scheme, there are 12 placeholders to set up. The final two are for visited and unvisited hyperlinks; these colors aren’t included in a color picker.

FIGURE 22-7
PowerPoint uses color pickers such as this one to enable you to easily apply color placeholders to objects.

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