PowerPoint 2000 offers you many choices of colors, backgrounds, styles, fonts, formats, bullets, headers, and footers. Using PowerPoint 2000, you can easily create styles for different types of presentations, handouts, and lectures. When you use the slide master features, you can customize a series of presentations or handouts for an entire course or a single presentation.

In addition to the presentation styles that are part of PowerPoint 2000, you can use styles that you created yourself easily and quickly. You may want to incorporate pictures, clip art, or other graphics. Because the purpose of a presentation determines its look, it is important to know how to customize PowerPoint presentations.

CHANGE THE DESIGN

1. On the Format menu, click Apply Design Template.

2. Click any of the designs to see a preview of the design.

3. Double-click Blends.pot. Each of the slides now has the Blends design.

4. Save your presentation.

CUSTOMIZING THE BACKGROUND

Depending on how you use a presentation, a change in the background may make it easier to see and read the information. Customizing the background allows you to change the color behind every slide. As a rule, it is best to use a color that matches the lighting in the room in which you are presenting. Dark blue is excellent for showing a presentation in a darkened room, while a lighter background is better for a lighted room.

Change The Background Color For Each slide

1. On the Format menu, click Background.

2. In the Background dialog box, click the down arrow. You will see several color squares and More Colors and Fill Effects.

3. Click Fill Effects to browse through the available effects.

4. Click Cancel.

5. In the Background dialog box, click the down arrow again.

6. Click More Colors to see the variety of colors available.

7. Click the Custom tab to select any color in the color spectrum.

8. Click Cancel.

9. Click Apply to all to make any changes apply to the entire presentation.

SELECTING COLORS AND FONTS

Changing the color scheme is more dramatic than changing the background color. Completing the color selection is the next step in customizing a presentation. There are two ways to change colors: use a preset color scheme or customize your own color scheme. You can make changes to almost all parts of a presentation including the notes and handouts.

Change The Color Scheme For All Slides

1. On the Format menu, click Slide Color Scheme.

2. Click the first color scheme in the second row.

3. Click Apply to All to make the change to the entire presentation. This darker color scheme is especially effective for use in a darkened room.

CUSTOMIZE THE COLOR SCHEME

1. On the Format menu, click Slide Color Scheme.

2. Click the Custom tab. The Background color scheme box is selected.

3. Click Change Color. The current color is selected on the hexagon.

4. Click a different blue spot at the top of the hexagon, and then click OK. You can see a comparison between the old color and the new color in the bottom-right corner of the window.

5. Change the rest of the options under Scheme colors as desired.

6. Click Apply to All to make the color changes to the entire document.

REPLACING FONTS IN A PRESENTATION

The second step in customizing a presentation is to select appropriate fonts. Whether you have completed a presentation or are working on one, you can easily change some or all of the fonts. With PowerPoint 2000, it is easy to make comprehensive changes.

Replace Fonts In Your Presentation

1. On the Format menu, click Replace Fonts. To see this option, you may have to click the chevron.

2. In the With box, click Arial Black.

3. Click Replace.

4. Click the Replace menu and click Tahoma.

5. In the With box, click AvantGarde.

6. Click Replace.

7. Repeat steps 4-6 until you have selected the most effective fonts for your presentation.

8. Click Close when you have finished.

9. Save your work.

CREATING HEADERS AND FOOTERS IN A PRESENTATION

As you create presentations, you may go through several drafts or be one of several people working on a presentation. Using headers and footers is an easy way to ensure that versions and authors do not get mixed up. When you created the original presentation, you chose footer defaults. You can change these at any time.

Add Footer Information

1. On the View menu, click Header and Footer.

2. On the Slide tab, under Include on slide, select Date and time and Update automatically if you want the date to reflect the last date the slides were modified. You can also do one of the following:

You can also select a date format from the date list

- Or -

Select Fixed and type the date you will be giving the presentation, so that it reflects when the presentation is given instead of when it was updated.

3. Select Slide number to print a number on each slide.

4. Select Footer; the text English 7-8 is already in the footer. To change this, select the text and then type the preferred text in the text box.

5. Select Don't show on title slide. This shows the footer you have created on all subsequent slides, but leave the footer off the title slide.

6. Click Apply to All to make these changes throughout the presentation.