Change slide design but not text color

[Dave Foley]

I have several presentations (MS Office 2003) with a solid color background.
I want to change the slide design to one of the other available choices, but
when I do, the colors of the text and lines change. How can I apply a new
slide design but still retain the original text and line colors?

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Dave

To understand what's going on see Echo's excellent article(s) here:
http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm

You should be able to apply a new slide design then change the colour scheme
associated with that design. That will make sense if you read the above,
promise

Lucy

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[Dave Foley]

Lucy --

I guess I'm missing something here. I read the article before I posted my
question, and again after your suggestion -- but something's missing. I
selected several slides, went into slide design, selected "stream", and
"apply to selected slides." Yellow text remained yellow, orange text
remained orange, but all the white text and lines turned a slightly softer
shade of blue than in the slide design -- making the text blend into the
background. The instructions (as I understand them) explain how to change
text color -- but I don't want the text/line colors to change -- I want them
to remain as they were. I just want the slide design (background?) to
change.
By the way, when I went through the change process for the selected slides,
using the "edit color schemes" routine, nothing changed on the slide. I
might add that much of my text is in text boxes, not in the placeholders.
Does that make a difference?

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Echo S]

If you just want to change the background color of the slides, I'd choose
Format | Background and apply a different background color. Forget about the
color scheme at that point.

It's hard to say what's going on with your specific objects' colors without
knowing more about your color scheme specifically and what colors (color
scheme colors or "more colors") were applied to the objects.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Dave

I had a look at the 'Stream' background and it appears to be a group of
objects - this means it is picking up the colours from the underlying colour
scheme. You can see this in action by changing the colour scheme or
copy/pasting the background into another slide. You could save a blank
'Stream' slide as a picture and insert that as a background or create slides
in 'Stream' then copy/paste your existing elements in. That is if I'm not
getting my mind in a muddle

Lucy

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PowerPoint MVP
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