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Create New Theme Color

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You can change some color values ​in an existing theme color to create a new set of theme colors, then save and use them as custom theme colors.

Changing theme color sets also applies to all theme colors and color palettes applied to the document.

Steps

Create custom theme color

  1. Click Format-Theme Color.
  2. In the theme colors image collection, select Create New Theme Color.
  3. In the Create New Theme Color dialog box, type “Party” in Name and click the Color Scheme Type icon.
  4. In the color scheme type image collection, select “Butterfly” to change the color configuration under Define Color Scheme to “Butterfly”.
  5. Click the buttons of each item to define colors that matches with a party.
  6. Make sure the newly defined set of theme colors look good overall in the preview area and click Save.
  7. The theme color specified in the document changes to the color of the theme color scheme defined.

icon_refer.gif Click Format-Theme Color to check that the “Party” you defined is added in the theme colors image collection.

Change custom theme color

  1. Click Format-Theme Color.
  2. In the theme colors image collection, right-click the theme color you want to change color values under Custom group.
  3. Select Edit in the context menu.
  4. In the Edit Theme Color dialog box, click the buttons of Accent 2 and Accent 4 to specify new colors you want.
  5. Make sure the changed colors match other colors in the preview area and click Save.
  6. The theme color specified in the document changes to the color of the theme color scheme defined.

 

More Information

Create New Theme Color Dialog Box

When you define a new theme color in the Create New Theme Color dialog box, the theme color information is added to the Custom group of the theme colors image collection.

Name

Specify the theme color name to be newly customized.

Color Scheme Type

The Color Scheme Type icon is provided to select the new color group to be custom defined in the theme colors image collection.

bar Description
theme_color(select_type).png Click the icon to show the color scheme type image collection.
Select the theme color you want to newly configure in the image collection, and the color scheme value will be displayed for each item in Define Color Scheme.

Define Color Scheme

The theme color scheme consists of Text/Background - Light 1, Text/Background - Dark 1, Title/Background - Light 2, Title/Background - Dark 2, Accent 1, Accent 2, Accent 3, Accent 4, Accent 5, Accent 6, Hyperlink, and Followed Hyperlink.

The color value for the theme color applied to the current presentation will be displayed as default. When a new theme color is selected from the Color Scheme Type, the color value for the selected theme color will be applied.

In the theme color scheme, click the button for the item you want to change color to specify the color you want in the color palette.

Preview Area

Each color value listed in Define Color Scheme is displayed as a slide example picture.

If you change the color value of a specific item in the Define Color Scheme, it is immediately applied to the preview area. You can also see if the changed colors match well with the other colors.

theme_color_set.png

Reset

Revert the changed color information to the original color value.

Limitation on custom theme color

Theme colors may have restrictions depending on the policy of the browser you are using. For example, any custom theme colors you add are stored in the browser's local storage, so theme colors added in Chrome won't appear in other browsers such as Edge. Additionally, the amount of local storage space varies from browser to browser, so the number of custom theme colors you can add may vary from browser to browser.

Custom theme colors added by a particular browser are deleted when you clear that browser's browsing history (cached data), or when you close the browser if you are using incognito mode (e.g. incognito tab).

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