Themes are a customizable set of layouts, backgrounds, and default styles that can be used to define a style guide for your presentations. Users can choose from the professionally designed themes provided by SlideRocket or create personalized themes to match the look and feel of their brand. Users can share themes with other members of their company or any other SlideRocket member and can set permissions to restrict the use and editing of shared themes.

 

ADVANCED NOTES: 

• Themes are edited from within a presentation that uses the theme
• Unlike PowerPoint, when multiple presentations use the same theme, a single instance of that theme is referenced. If a user edits the theme, any presentations that uses that same theme will be updated automatically

 

 

This document covers 

• Creating a New Theme
• Creating New Theme from Theme Library
• Creating New Theme for New Presentation
• Creating New Theme within Presentation
• Duplicating an Existing Theme
• Duplicating Theme from Themes Library
• Changing a Presentation’s Theme
• Changing Theme from within Presentation
• Customizing a Theme
• Setting the Layout
• Creating New Layouts
• Editing Existing Layouts
• Setting the Background
• Setting the Default Styles

 

Creating a New Theme

Creating New Theme from Theme Library

1. Click Themes tab
2. Click New Theme
3. Enter new theme name
4. Click Ok

 

Creating New Theme for New Presentation

1. Click Presentations tab
2. Click New Presentation
3. Click Create new theme...
   
4. Enter new theme name
5. Click Ok

 

Creating New Theme within Presentation

1. In Slide Properties Panel for any slide in presentation, click down-arrow by a theme name
   
2. Click Create new theme...
   
3. Enter new theme name
4. Click Ok
5. New theme will now be applied to all slides within presentation

 

 

Duplicating an Existing Theme

Themes can easily be duplicated and will retain all the properties of the original theme. A theme can be duplicated when creating a new presentation or from within an existing presentation. The new copy will have all of the same layouts, backgrounds and default styles as the original. Any edits made to the duplicate will not affect the original theme.

 

Duplicating Theme from Themes Library

1. Click Themes tab
2. Select theme to be duplicated
3. Right-click on thumbnail
4. Select Duplicate
5. Enter new name for duplicated theme
6. Select folder in which theme should be saved
7. Click Ok

 

 

Changing a Presentation’s Theme

Changing the theme of a presentation may update or remove the backgrounds, layouts, and default styles, depending on the differences between the themes. If the old theme contains placeholders that are not included in the new theme those placeholders will convert to regular slide elements. 

Changing Theme from within Presentation

1. In Slide Properties Panel for any slide in presentation click down-arrow by theme name
   
2. Select new theme
3. Click Ok

 

 

Customizing a Theme

Customizing a theme allows users to create slide templates with unique layouts and backgrounds. The Layout of the slide determines how elements or media are arranged on a slide, while the Background of the slide provides a bottom layer or backdrop for the content of the layout. A theme can only be edited from within a presentation that uses that theme. The SlideRocket default themes are locked and cannot be edited by users. To customize a default theme, make a duplicate of the theme then customize the duplicate.

 

Setting the Layout

 

 

Creating New Layouts

Layouts use placeholders to indicate elements, such as text or pictures, that are going to be assigned on a slide-by-slide basis. The same layout can be used on several slides even though each slide has different information and placeholders. In order to avoid loss of placeholder content when a new theme is chosen for a presentation, layouts and placeholders should follow SlideRocket’s naming conventions. 

1. Open presentation for which you have permission to edit the theme
2. Click File
3. Choose Edit Theme
4. Click Add Layout 
5. Right-click and Rename Layout if desired
6. Click Placeholder button  in Element Toolbar to open Add Placeholder menu
7. Select Text or Image Placeholder (For instructions on Page Number Placeholders click here)
•  Text Placeholder: Sets text box location and styles
•  Picture Placeholder: Creates a location to add any image from the Media Library
8. Click slide to add placeholder and set dimensions
9. Click Transform tab  to access Placeholder Properties menu. Placeholder Properties settings locks various aspects of placeholder
• Lock Position: Prevents placeholder from being moved, scaled, or rotated on slide
• Lock Style: Prevents placeholder from style changes such as font, bullet, color, and size
• Lock Builds: Prevents builds from being changed
  
10. Click Styles tab  to access Styles menu for each placeholder
• Text Placeholders: Set all text properties, including font, color, size and bullets. For more information on customizing text click here
• Image Placeholders: Set opacity, fill and stroke
11. Add a Transition (if desired): Animate slides using this layout. Click down-arrow in Transition pull-down menu  from Element Properties Panel to select desired transition. For information on how to replace default transition for individual slides click here
12. Once all edits have been completed, click Return to Slides  
13. Click Yes to save changes and update all slides in presentation

  

ADVANCED NOTE: Effects and builds can be added to any of the placeholders

 

 

Editing Existing Layouts

 

1. Open presentation for which you have permission to edit theme
2. Click File 
3. Choose Edit Theme
4. The Slide Sorter will show all available layouts for theme
5. Right-click and Rename Layout if desired
6. Make any desired edits to theme
7. Click File, then click Save to save changes as edits are being made
8. Once all edits have been completed, select Return to Slides
9. Click Yes to save changes and update all slides in presentation

 

 

Setting the Background

The Background provides a bottom layer or backdrop for the content of the layout. Users can choose from No fill, Color fill, Gradient fill, or Image fill. Click File, then Save to save the changes as edits are being made.

 

1. Open presentation for which you have permission to edit theme
2. Click File
3. Choose Edit Theme
4. Click Backgrounds button to display default background
5. Click Add Background to create new background
6. Use Background Properties dialog to select options
   
•  No Fill: Slide will have a blank background
•  Color Fill: Using Color Picker select shade to fill in background
•  Gradient Fill: Sets colors, angle or degree of gradient and location gradient starts
•  Image Fill: Pick image from Media Library which will then be added to background. Under Background Properties, scale photo by Original Size, Tile, Stretch, Scale to Fit, or Scale to Fill
7. Once all edits have been completed, click Return to Slides
8. Click Yes to save changes and update all slides in presentation

 

ADVANCED NOTE: To add page numbers to background

1. Click Placeholder icon 
2. Click Page Number Placeholder 
3. Click and drag to set placeholder location and dimensions. Color, size, and font of page number can be customized

 

 

Setting the Default Styles

The Default Styles define how Text, Shapes, Tables and Theme Colors will appear on a slide. The following are some of the elements and attributes that users are able to set.

• Text: Set default font, color, size, spacing, margin, alignment 
• Shapes: Set default fill, stroke, opacity, dimensions 
• Tables: Set default position, size, font, fill 
• Theme Colors: Set default color options, color fill, gradient fill, image fill