PowerPoint 2016 for Mac looks exactly the same as PowerPoi. Now text and shape backgrounds have the exact same colour rendering, an annoying bug in PowerPoint 2011, where despite selecting the same RGB value, colours on text and shapes would render differently. Oct 2, 2017 - Office 2016 for Mac has quite different and extensible color selection options for text. 2016 for Mac, Word for Mac, Excel for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac and Outlook for Mac. This is where you can enter RGB, CMYK or HSB color values. Huge news for Office Mac users – font embedding finally arrives!
Most of the PowerPoint color themes are pretty old school, but if you’re looking to create new color themes whether from scratch or with an inspirational color, look no more! It allows you to create new palettes and copy existing ones. Here’s a tutorial that I created of how to use it with PowerPoint: Mac 2011. Now if only Adobe Kuler integrated with PowerPointsigh (it does export as an Adobe Swatch Exchange file for Adobe products though) Anyways, I hope you enjoy! Go to and either create a new palette or copy an existing one to use or edit.
If using an existing palette, change or view the color values by clicking the color slider button to the far right of the color palette’s title. Below the color swatches are different types of color formats, all with different values. I’d recommend sticking with the RGB if your presentation is going to be shown on the computer screen. If you’re creating a presentation that will only be viewed as a printed document, then and only then I’d recommend using CMYK.
Open PowerPoint and click the “Themes” tab and in the Theme Options ribbon click on the “Colors” dropdown and at the bottom of the menu choose “Create Theme Colors” 4. Once you’re in the “Create Theme Colors” one by one in the dialog box, double click the color swatches to change their color values. Again, I recommend using RGB if the presentation will be viewed on a computer screen. If the presentation is for print—and only print, then I recommend using CYMK. Once you’ve changed all the colors be sure to name your new color theme, so you’ll remember what presentation it’s for, then click “Apply to All”. You’ve officially made your own color theme! Check our your new color theme!
You can find the new colors in the “Format” tab for fill, line AND “Quick Styles”. Remember, if you need to change your color theme just go back to the “Themes” tab and in the Theme Options ribbon click on the “Colors” dropdown then from the “Custom” area choose your desired color theme to use. Easy peasy ?.
I have a 150-slide powerpoint presentation that I want to revise due to a company rebranding effort. Our previous turquoise color has been used on text, lines, shapes and shape fills. I would like to build a VBA script that runs across the entire presentation, and in one fell swoop amends all slides and replaces this bluish color with our new dark gray color. The old corporate color was RGB(0, 176, 240) - turquoise The new corporate color is RGB(71, 67, 65) - dark gray I have tried a multitude of different vba's across the internet but can't get it to work properly. Here is a screenshot of a typical slide from the old color - all the blue items should be changed to dark gray: This piece of VBA code from a helpful forum member worked really well for shape fills - if this could be re-worked to include any text and shape outlines and lines as well, it would be perfect. Sub ChangeShapeColor Dim oSh As Shape Dim oSl As Slide ' Look at each slide in the current presentation: For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides ' Look at each shape on each slide: For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes ' IF the shape's.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = turqoise color: If oSh.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 176, 240) Then ' Change it to corporate dark grey: oSh.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(71, 67, 65) End If Next oSh Next oSl End Sub Thanks in advance. This should get you a step closer, though I'd probably rewrite it as a function that you could pass lFindColor and lReplaceColor to.