By Each PowerPoint 2016 theme includes a built-in color scheme, which consists of sets of colors chosen by color professionals. Microsoft paid these people enormous sums of money to debate the merits of using mauve text on a teal background. You can use these professionally designed color schemes, or you can create your own if you think that you have a better eye than the Microsoft-hired color guns. The color schemes in PowerPoint themes are the best things to come along since Peanut M&Ms. Without color schemes, you are free to pick and choose from among the 16 million or so colors that PowerPoint lets you incorporate into your slides. The resulting slides can easily appear next to Cher and Lindsay Lohan in People magazine’s annual “Worst Dressed of the Year” issue. Each color scheme has 12 colors, with each color designated for a particular use, as shown in this list: • Four Text/Background colors: These four colors are designed to be the primary colors for the presentation. One from each pair is used for text, and the other for the background. (You could use the same color for both, but that would make the slides impossible to read!) • Six accent colors: These colors are used for various bits and pieces of your slides that complement the basic text and background colors. • Two hyperlink colors: These colors are used only when your presentation includes hyperlinks. When you apply a theme, the color scheme for that theme is applied along with the other elements of the theme. However, PowerPoint lets you change the color scheme from the scheme that comes with the theme. For example, you can apply a theme such as Opulent but then change the color scheme to the scheme from the Verve theme. Applying a color scheme To change the standard color scheme used for your slides, you must first switch to Slide Master view. You find out more about working with Slide Masters in Chapter 10, but for now just realize that a Slide Master controls the overall appearance of one or more slides. Here's how to quickly change the Office 2016 theme and header background. To tweak the look and feel of Office 2016: 1. Open any Office program. To switch to Slide Master view, open the View tab in the Ribbon and click the Slide Master button. In the Background group, you’ll find a Colors button, which you can click to reveal the drop-down list shown. Then you can choose the color scheme you want to apply. The Colors drop-down list. Creating your own color scheme If you don’t like any color schemes that come with the built-in themes, you can create your own color scheme. Here are the steps: • Select a color scheme that’s close to the one you want to use. Be warned that after you deviate from the preselected color scheme combinations, you’d better have some color sense. If you can’t tell chartreuse from lime, you should leave this stuff to the pros. • Select Customize Colors from the bottom of the Colors drop-down menu. The Create New Theme Colors dialog box appears, as shown here. Changing a color. • Pick a color you like. As you can see, a plethora of color choices is available. This gallery reminds one of the shelf of paint color chips in the paint section of a hardware store. In this Episode: How To Change the Name of Your Mac. There maybe many reasons why you may want to change the name of your Mac. The process to do so is simple, quick and easy. What is the youtube name for mac. How to Change a Mac’s Name. To change a Mac’s name, follow the simple step-by-step instructions below. Click on the Apple icon on the left-hand side of the Menu Bar. On the menu that pops up, select System Preferences. Locate the Sharing icon and click on it. How Popular is the name Mac? Mac is the 2,736 th most popular name of all time. As a last name Mac was the 13,171 st most popular name in 2010. How many people with the first name Mac have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2017, the Social Security Administration has recorded 8,670 babies born with the first name Mac in the United States. To confirm, click Change Name. Keep in mind that you can only change your YouTube name 3 times every 90 days. Also keep in mind that your YouTube username and channel name are the same. • If you don’t like any of the choices, click the More Colors button. Doing this brings up the Colors dialog box, as shown. As you can see, PowerPoint displays what looks like a tie-dyed version of Chinese checkers. (Note that this dialog box comes up with the Standard tab selected.
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