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This Itechguide teaches you how to change theme colors in Google Slides. The guide covers steps to change theme colors in Google Slides from a PC or the App.
Option 1: Change Theme Colors from a PC
This section covers steps to change your theme and another subsection to change the theme color.
Method 1: Change Google Slides to a New Theme
- Open Slides.Google.com from a PC. Then, if you have not signed in to your Google Account on the browser, you will be prompted to sign in.
- Open the presentation you want to change theme colors for.
- Then, on the menu, click Slide. From the displayed options, click Change theme (the last item in the list). Available themes will be displayed on the right of the page.
- Scroll down the list of available themes. Then, click the theme you want to change to. In this example, I am changing my theme to Material.
- Your Google Slide presentation will change to the new theme.
Method 2: Change Google Slides Theme Background Color
If you do not want to change to a new theme, here are the steps to change the background color of your current theme…
- If you want to change the background color for all slides, click Edit. Then, from the displayed options, click Select all.
- From the Google Slides menu, click Slide. Then, from the displayed options, click Change background. The Background pop up will displayed.
- On the Background pop up, click the Color drop-down and select a new background color.
- You could also use an image as your background. To do this, click the Choose image button.
- When you finish making your changes, click Done.
Option 3: Change Theme from the App
- Open the Google Slides App on your phone. Then, sign in with your Google Account.
- Open the presentation you want to change theme for. You can open a saved presentation from the Apps homepage or from Google Drive.
- When the presentation opens, on the top right of the presentation tap the 3 dots. A list of options will be displayed.
- From the displayed options, tap Change theme.
- Then from the list of displayed themes, tap the theme you want to change to and wait for the theme to be applied.
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