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Using Color Schemes. A basic PowerPoint slide, such as the one that you see here in this window, doesn't have any actual design formatting. It is white by default. Now if you are making transparencies for overhead projectors, certainly a white background works fine. However, if you are using an on-screen presentation, creating one for the web, or even 35 mm slides, white backgrounds just really don't help you. They are not soothing; sometimes they are a little harsh. So that is why design templates exist. However, what if you want to use a color scheme that is not actually a design template? Well, PowerPoint gives you the option to choose a number of pre-configured color schemes. If you look in your task pane, click the drop-down menu, and click slide design color schemes, you come to this color schemes tab. Now what you have if you look at this, is a number of different color scheme options that you can choose to apply to a single slide or all of your slides. For example, let's say that I want to apply this particular color scheme. If I click it, I see that my bullet text is still black as well as my title text, but I have this basic background color that it gives me here. It is also showing me other colors that will work with this particular color. If I move on down, I can choose other options. For example, this has changed my title text and left my bullet text white. Again, I can change that once again. Here is a blue option. So the color schemes give your slides basic color formatting and then give your titles and your bullet points color formatting that goes along with your background color. This assures that your slide will actually look good and all of your colors will actually match. Again, what if you like to be creative or you are looking for a certain look for your company and you want to use a color scheme, but you want to make some changes to it. Well, that is no problem because at the very bottom, you will see "edit color schemes," and if you click that option, you get an edit color scheme window. Now first of all, if you look back on the standard tab, what you have here is all of the schemes that you see on the actual pane that we first looked at. So if we click custom, what we can do is click through the actual different scheme colors, for example background, text and line, shadows, and then we can make changes to those and basically construct our own color scheme. For example, say I choose a background; I can click change color and then I can choose whatever background color that I might want. Let's say I want to use this green. Click OK, and you see that it's changed. You can do the same thing here, text and lines and then change that to black, and I can continue on and make any changes that I want so that I can get the actual color scheme that I am looking for. Again a useful application of this is if your company has certain colors, or your organization, and you want to use those colors for your particular presentation. Once you are done, you can click preview and you will see that it applied to the slides here. So you can actually take a look at how it looks, and come back and make any changes if you don't like it. Then, you can either click apply and this will apply it to your slides, or you can click add as a standard scheme. Now what that does is it adds this color scheme to your list so you can come back to it and use it time and time again. Now you will see this color scheme that I created exists in the color scheme list and anytime I want to return to this color scheme, it will always be available for me. If at a future date, I have created a number of color schemes and I've decided I don't want to use them anymore, I just click edit color schemes, go to the standard tab, locate it, select it and click delete scheme. Now it is completely gone, so think about color schemes; you can use them to easily apply color to your background and also create your own custom color scheme within your slide quickly and easily.