Customizing Layouts
We can customize the layouts for our theme, just like we customized its backgrounds. Let's take an existing layout and make it our own, here's how:
- Click the "Theme & Layouts" button in the lower-right to edit the current theme.
- We're going to be working on our theme's layouts, so click the "Layouts" button and the slide sorter will show you all of the layouts that were created automatically with your theme.
- We're going to customize one of the existing layouts, so click the thumbnail for "Title and Text" to activate it for editing.
- You can click each of the text boxes on the layout and customize it. Here, for example, we've changed the color of the title text to white and left-justified it (note that we changed the color of the body text to white also).
- You can assign effects and even builds, and each slide that uses this layout will inherit them. Here we've added a drop shadow effect to our title text.
- Here we've set the Default Background for this theme to be the "Gradient" background that we created in the previous lesson. All new slides that we create with this layout will now look like this.