Sharing Custom Color themes

[pjm]

I have developed 8 custom color PowerPoint themes tied to my company brand.
These are working very well for me, but others at my company would also like
to use them. I've saved the PowerPoint with the custom themes as a template
(potx), but when I send the template to my colleagues, the custom color
themes are not available. I would think a template would hold the color
themes, but they do not. Is there any way to automatically add .thmx files to
your custom library without having to save each theme separately? I would be
eternally grateful for any help or suggestions. Thanks.

 

[Echo S]

See http://www.echosvoice.com/2007/whatgoeswhere.htm

Basically, save your color schemes, then go find the XML file with the color
scheme name in the Theme Colors folder (path below).

Copy that file, send it to your colleagues, and have them paste the file
into the appropriate foler (path below) on their system.

(in Windows Vista)
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes

(in Windows XP) C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes

You can add color schemes to a theme file, but you have to manually edit the
XML to do it. http://www.echosvoice.com/2007/addcolorstotheme.htm gives
information on that.