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If you want to apply the design changes you make in one presentation to another, you
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Colors, patterns, text styles, and graphics work together to give your presentation a characteristic
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These factors can make the same presentation solemn and serious, bold and dynamic, or even lighthearted and funny. With so many possibilities, how can you choose the one that
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Making Your Point with Bullets and Text,
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Compel comes with over
100 professionally-designed templates, each with a different look and feel. .
A new Compel presentation always starts with a default template. You can redesign a presentation in one step by switching to a different template. Just choose Change Template from the Slide menu and select the template you want.
You can also change the template Compel uses as the default for new presentations. for new presentations.
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A template provides a presentation
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The colors, graphics, and
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A background is like a backdrop to the text and graphics on your slides. The background
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You can change the look of an entire presentation by changing its color scheme. Each element in a presentation has a scheme color assigned to it. You can change the color of an element throughout the presentation by changing the assigned color in the color scheme.
You can also change the graphic used for bullets throughout the presentation. For details, see