Create or delete a custom theme color

You can create a customized color scheme, also known as theme colors, in PowerPoint and use it in other Office applications. Find a standard theme color that you like and then modify and save it in PowerPoint. The next time that you create a new PowerPoint presentation, Word document, or Excel workbook, you can use the theme color that you created.

Create a new theme color

1. On the Design tab, click the arrow under Variants, and point to Colors.
   
2. Click Customize Colors.
3. Click a color box that you want to change. For example, Accent 1.
4. Click a new color in the Colors dialog box.
   
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each color you want to change.
6. Close the Colors dialog box.
7. In the Name box, type a name for your custom theme color, and then click Save.
   The theme color is applied to the current presentation.

Apply your new theme color to a new document

• On the Design tab, click the arrow under Variants, point to Colors, and then click the name of the theme color you created.
  

Delete a custom theme color

1. In the Mac OS X Finder, find your custom theme color in /Users/ Username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Themes/Theme Colors.

2. Drag the file with your custom theme color — for example, Custom 1.xml — to the Trash.

   Note

   The deleted theme color remains in the Colors list on the Design tab until you quit and then reopen the Office applications.

See also

Create your own theme in PowerPoint