Keynote - Changing a Slide’s Theme

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Changing a Slide’s Theme

If you’re creating slideshows with many “chapters” or subheadings, you can use
multiple themes in a slideshow to visually separate slides into chapters or topics. Or,
you may want to change the theme of your entire slideshow or only a few
individual slides.

It’s easy to change the theme of one or more slides at a time, and the slide will take on
all the attributes of its new theme.

However, if you’ve made formatting changes to a slide that you want to retain, or
if you want to change the theme for all of your slides, you can choose to retain the
custom formatting. But if you’ve made formatting changes to a slide that you want to
get rid of, you can reapply the theme’s default settings.

To change a slide’s theme:
Select the slide and click Themes in the toolbar, and then choose a new theme.

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To return a slide to its theme default settings:
Select the slide and choose Format > “Reapply Master to Slide.”

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To change the theme of multiple slides:

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In the slide navigator, select the slide or slides whose theme you want to change.

If you want to change all the slides, you don’t need to select them all; you can skip
this step.

2

Click Themes in the toolbar and choose Theme Chooser.

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Chapter 3

Creating and Managing Slides

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Chapter 3

Creating and Managing Slides

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Select a new theme.

4

Choose an option from the Apply Theme To pop-up menu.

All Slides: Changes the theme of all the slides in your presentation.
Selected Slides: Changes the theme of only the slides you’ve selected.

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Depending on whether or not you want to keep formatting changes you’ve made, do

one of the following:
If you don’t want to keep formatting changes, deselect “Retain changes to theme defaults.”
If you do want to keep formatting changes, make sure the checkbox remains selected.

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Click Choose to apply the new theme.