Recent Colors: Here you can find the colors most recently used.

It's a good design idea to use Theme colors as far as possible. You don't have to limit yourself to either the Theme colors or Standard colors, as you'll learn in the next options. These ten standard colors are just choices of colors that PowerPoint believes to be widely used. Standard Colors: Here you can choose from any of the ten standard colors.

You can also select any of the 5 tints or shades for any Theme color.

Theme Colors: Here you can select any of the colors which are from the active Theme of the presentation.

Here, you can choose any color option for the Shadow, as explained below:.

Click the down arrow next to color icon to access the Color drop-down menu as shown in Figure 5.

Allows you to change the Shadow color.

See our Apply Shadow Effects to Shapes In PowerPoint 2016 tutorial for more information.

Click the down arrow next to the icon, which brings up the similar Shadow gallery that you can see in Figure 3 above.

Shadow options within the Format Shape Task Pane are explained below, as marked in Figure 4, above:.

This opens the Format Shape Task Pane with the Effects tab active, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 4.įigure 4: Shadow options within the Format Shape Task Pane.

Now choose Shadow Options, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 3.įigure 3: Shadow Options within Shape effects drop-down gallery From this drop-down gallery, choose the Shadow option to bring up the Shadow sub-gallery.

This brings up the Shape Effects drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 3.

These tabs are special tabs in the Ribbon that are not visible all the time they only make an appearance when you are working with a particular slide object which can be edited using special options. Note: The Drawing Tools Format tab is a Contextual tab.

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