by Echo Swinford | Jun 10, 2013 | Color, Editing and Formatting, PowerPoint 2013
PowerPoint 2013 introduced a color picker to the interface (finally!), but I keep reading and hearing that you can’t choose colors outside your current slide – for example, that you can’t choose a color from a website. This is absolutely. not....
by Echo Swinford | Jan 1, 2009 | Color, Editing and Formatting, PPT 2007
Text shadows vs shape shadows PowerPoint has a two different types of shadows: text shadows and shape shadows. Text shadows are added by clicking the shadow icon on the Formatting toolbar (PPT 2003) or the Home tab (PPT 2007). (2003) (2007) You can also add text...
by Echo Swinford | Jan 1, 2009 | Color, PPT 2007
PowerPoint 2007 has given us some awesome looking shapes complete with gorgeous fills and effects. The built-in Quick Styles are beautiful, but sometimes I just need a simple gradient fill. PowerPoint 2007 gives us a good-looking default gradient, but it doesn’t...
by Echo Swinford | Jan 1, 2009 | Color, Masters and Layouts, PPT 2007
Adding Custom Colors to the Color Picker You can add your own custom colors to an Office 2007 theme (.THMX file extension). In the screenshot below, you can see three custom colors — they show up in their own section on the color picker. You must modify the...
