BrightSlide has over 50 smart tools, including the ability to delete Recent Colors from your file. The solution? Our free BrightSlide add-in. But PowerPoint doesn’t let you delete them, which is annoying.

You can save a maximum of ten spot colors here, and they’re saved on a first-in, first-out basis:Īdding spot colors is useful when developing a color palette if you don’t already have one. You can choose from over 16 million colors by clicking More Colors, and add your chosen color (or spot color) to a new section of the color picker UI called Recent Colors. We’d encourage any brand-aware readers to put pen to paper and ask Microsoft what they were thinking?! They seem to have been created by a top-secret Microsoft algorithm determined to take your content off-brand… Unless I wasn’t clear: avoid using these at all costs, especially if your brand includes pre-defined tints and shades.īelow the theme colors are ten Standard Colors – while these might appeal to kindergarten kids, they are probably too garish for your corporate presentation!Ĭhanging or disabling the 50 tints/shades or standard colors is not possible. The 50 colors underneath the theme colors are a set of automatically generated tints and shades. Check out our blog post on theme colors to find out how to change them. The ten colors at the top are Theme Colors. When you open the default Microsoft Office template and want to change the color of something, you see the standard PowerPoint color picker: Speaking the color lingoīefore we get started, let’s clear something up: color is defined and used in PowerPoint in myriad ways – everything from theme colors and tints and shades, to spot colors, recently used colors and custom colors. And we’re about to show you how to add custom colors in PowerPoint to your template themes. But are ten colors enough? Would you like more? Well, the good news is you can have more. You may have already discovered how to change your theme colors, and how to add spot colors to your PowerPoint presentation, template, or theme. Do you like to hack? We like to hack, too! We also like to share how to hack.

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