Digitizing Your PDD

Altering Template Appearance

Although you can not apply more than a single Design Template to a presentation, there are other options for varying the appearance: changing the slide's Standard Color Scheme, changing the individual items' color scheme and omitting items from the background.

Slide Color Scheme
Choose FORMAT : Slide Color Scheme. In the slide Color Scheme dialog box, the Standard tab allows you to choose a pre-determined Color Scheme by clicking on the desired choice.

The Custom tab allows you to selectively change the colors of the applied Design's features.

NOTE: You may want to take note of the default colors before changing item colors because it is sometimes difficult to determine from the sample exactly what type of objects/features may be affected by your color changes and you may want to return the colors to the default choices.

• Click the colored box next to the feature you wish to change.

• Click the Change Color button and make your color selections.

Background
Choose FORMAT : Background to make changes to the "wallpaper" of the slide. The drop-down box allows you to change colors, patterns, gradients, and other fill effects.

Every object on a Slider Master, including the design on the Design Template itself, is considered a Master Item. You can choose not to display Master Items on the current slide, or all slides by clicking the option to Omit background graphics from master. You can not selectively omit items on a single slide.

To omit all Master Items , choose FORMAT : Background. Click Omit background graphics from master. Click either Apply or Apply to all.

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