May 02, 2019  This theme gives the title bar the color of its respective app. For example, Word’s is blue, Excel’s is green, PowerPoint’s is red, and so on. Additionally, it gives you a standard light gray background and ribbon, and a white content area. You can change the theme from inside any Office application. Create my own color theme. On the Page Layout tab in Excel or the Design tab in Word, click Colors, and then click Customize Colors. Click the button next to the theme color you want to change (for example, Accent 1 or Hyperlink), and then pick a color under Theme Colors.

Use predefined layouts or styles to change the look of a chart in Office apps. Skip to main content. Microsoft Support. Microsoft 365. Change the layout or style of a chart. Chart styles use the colors of the current document theme that is applied to the workbook. You can change the colors by switching to a different document.

When you apply a formatting theme to projects created in Office 2011 for Mac, you can achieve consistent colors and fonts for the elements included within your Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. You can choose from Office for Mac’s built-in themes or make your own.

A theme contains formatting information. This includes the following:

• Twelve colors:

  • Four background and text colors, two of which are invariably white and black

  • Six accent colors

  • Two hyperlink colors for link, and followed link

• A font family that comprises two fonts.

If you want everything consistent for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, choose the same theme while working on documents in each application. Here’s how to apply a theme from the Themes gallery:

• In Word and Excel, click the Ribbon’s Home tab. In the Themes group, click the Themes button. When you click the Themes button, the themes gallery displays. Choose a theme. All elements in the document or workbook that respond to theme colors and fonts will be affected.

• In PowerPoint, click the Ribbon’s Themes tab. This displays the Theme gallery. You can choose a theme from the gallery or click at the bottom-center of the gallery to display the Themes submenu. To apply a theme to only selected slides:

  1. Before choosing a theme, select specific slides in Slide Sorter View or in the Slide Preview Pane.

     Reminder: Hold Command to select more than one slide at a time.

  2. Right-click a theme.

     A pop-up menu lets you choose to apply the theme to the selected slides or the entire presentation.

Alternatively, you can choose Browse Themes within the Themes gallery and navigate in the resulting dialog to a saved theme file. Choosing a saved theme applies the theme.

Themes are not supported in Compatibility Mode. When working on files that were saved in 2004 or earlier format, themes options are grayed out. Save the file in a current format to enable themes.

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When you directly apply a color format in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you see the familiar color palette. The colors in the Theme Colors row of the color palette change to match the colors of the theme you applied. The color variations beneath the theme colors row provide shades (darker variations) and tints (lighter variations) of the theme colors. Each column has these shades and tints of the theme color at its top. The color palette does let you wander away from the theme colors by choosing the More Colors or Standard Colors options, but if you choose to do so, you defeat the purpose of using themes.

Applying a Theme to All Slides in a Presentation
Applying a Theme to Selected Slides in a Presentation
Applying Themes in Microsoft Word and Excel

Applying a Theme to All Slides in a Presentation

You have already seen how to apply Themes in different applicationsof Office 2008 for Mac. Now let us see how to repeat thesame process in Office 2011. Here also you will find plenty of built-in Themes which you can choose from. These Themes can be foundunder Themes tab of the Ribbon, shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Office Themes

Follow these steps to apply a new Theme to a PowerPoint presentation:

1. Open an existing presentation, or create a new one in PowerPoint 2011.
2. Now access the Themes tab ofthe Ribbon. As you can see in Figure 1,there are thumbnail previews of several Themes available within the Themes gallery. To view the drop-down Themesgallery, hover the cursor over the Theme thumbnail previews and you'll be able to see a down-arrow button (highlightedin red in Figure 2). Click on this button and the Themes gallery appears in drop-downmode (refer again to Figure 2).
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   Figure 2: Themes gallery in drop-down mode
3. In this gallery, the Theme that the existing presentation is based upon is visible under the top section namedThis Presentation (refer to Figure 2 above). You can also see a collection of many other built-inThemes. To view more previews, use the scroll bar on the right side of the gallery. Once you find the Theme that you want to apply,just click on its thumbnail and the Theme gets applied to the entire presentation.

Applying a Theme to Selected Slides in a Presentation

Follow these steps to apply a Theme to selected slides in a presentation:

1. Open an existing presentation, or create a new one in PowerPoint 2011.
2. Select the slides in Slide Sorterview (or in the Slides Pane on the left sideof the interface) that you want to apply a new Theme to.
3. With these slides selected, access the Themes tab of the Ribbon. Choose any Themewithin the Themes gallery and right click on its thumbnail. In the context menu that appears, click on Applyto Selected Slides option, as shown in Figure 3.
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   Figure 3: Apply Selected Slides option
4. This will apply the selected Theme only to the selected slides as shown in Figure 4. Instead ofbringing up the context menu you can also simply click on the thumbnail to apply that Theme to all of the selected slides.
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   Figure 4: Theme applied to the selected slides

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Applying Themes in Microsoft Word and Excel

The same Themes that you apply in PowerPoint can also be applied in Word and Excel. In both of these programs, the way of accessingThemes gallery is different from that of PowerPoint.

Follow these steps to apply a new Theme to a Word document or an Excel workbook in 2011 for Mac:

1. Open an existing Word document or Excel spreadsheet, or create a new one.
2. Access the Home tab of the Ribbon, and locate the Themes group on theextreme right, as shown in Figure 5.
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   Figure 5: Themes group in Excel 2011
4. The Themes group looks a little different for Word 2011, as shown in Figure 6.
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   Figure 6: Themes group in Word 2011
3. Now click on the Themes icon (highlighted in redin Figure 5 above for Excel) to reveal the drop-down Themes gallery, as shown in Figure 7.
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   Figure 7: Themes gallery in drop-down mode
4. As you can see above in Figure 7, Office is the default Theme for new documents andworkbook (note the highlight surrounding the active Theme). In this gallery, click on the thumbnail of any other Theme to apply it tothe open document or workbook. If you want to view more Themes, use up and down arrows within the bottom area of thescrollbar (highlighted in red in Figure 7 above).

Change Only Colors and Fonts?

When you apply a Theme in PowerPoint, you add a set of coordinated backdrops, layouts, fonts, effects, colors, etc. Let's justsay you want to change just the colors and fonts, and retain everything else in your presentation. Can you do that? Sure you can!We'll show you how to do that in our ApplyingTheme Colors and Theme Fonts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac tutorial.