Sunday, November 21, 2010

In powerpoint, how can you change font color globally, i.e., for each slide, say from yellow to blue.?

It's easy to change font color for a particular slide but, after trying various options, I once was able to do do it globally for all slides. Unfortunately, I didn't write it down.In powerpoint, how can you change font color globally, i.e., for each slide, say from yellow to blue.?
If you typed into the text placeholders (where it says Click to Add Title / Click to Add Text), then you can go to the slide master (View menu in 2003, View tab in 2007 --%26gt; Master --%26gt; Slide Master) and change the color of the type on the master. It should change the color on the slides.



You can also try to change the color in the color scheme. It's kind of complex to get into here, but it might be worth checking PowerPoint help if you applied all the same color from the same swatch as you built your presentation.



A couple tips if you do have to change each text box individually...



1) Select the first piece of text and go to text color and set the color. From that point on, just select the next text box and click on the A where you get the text color - you don't have to go into the color palette and select the color again.



2) You can use Ctrl + Y - I find it makes some of those repetitive processes faster. It is the command for Redo. It basically re-does whatever you last did - over and over again - until you do something else. So, select the first text box, pick the new color, select the text on the next slide and hit Ctrl + Y.In powerpoint, how can you change font color globally, i.e., for each slide, say from yellow to blue.?
the powerpoint help menu has this info and is probalby faster than posting a q here and expecting serious answers from informed users.

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