- As we work through our presentations,
there are many times when we'll create an element or a slide
that we'll want to reuse over and over again.
And we can add that to our slide layout using themes.
So here, if I were to do new slide, you'll see,
we have a number of things in this theme,
but if I want to, I can add custom things to it.
We do this using slide master.
So if you remember, slide masters are under view,
slide master, and this brings up the master
for this particular theme.
Now, if I want to insert another element into this theme,
all I have to do is click between the slides.
Right click and do insert layout.
And that inserts another slide.
Now for this one, I just want the gradient.
I don't need to have a title slide.
So I'm going to select that text box hit delete,
and then let's go over here. So if we want,
we can change anything from colors, fonts, effects.
But we're looking at background styles.
Now this has a number of preset colors,
but we want to do our own color.
So I'm going to select format background,
and this brings you into the format background menu.
Now we can do a solid fill if we want,
but in this case, we're going to do a gradient fill.
So I'm going to select gradient fill, and then
just change that gradient to something that I like.
Now, once I'm done, I can either apply to all,
and that will add the changes to this slide,
to every slide in the presentation.
That's not really what I want.
So I'm just going to select close master view.
And that'll go ahead and save it out to the current theme.
So if I click in between two slides, go to my home ribbon,
select new slide, you'll see I have that custom layout.
And there we go. So it's very easy now
to insert that particular slide.
Now, if you want to save this all out as a theme,
we can do that from the design menu.
So let's go into design, and here we have all of these
standard designs. But if we want to save what we created,
all I have to do is hit the down arrow here,
scroll to the bottom, and do save current theme.
All I have to do is give it a name
and it will save it out as a theme.
So the theme will basically be
everything in this layout menu.
So this is a great way to save all the custom things
that you've done on presentations,
so that you can reuse them again and again.