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Do the various items displayed have a specific relationship to the items on
the slide? If so could one of you MVP gurus enlighten me?
 
What items are you referring to, Reb? I know you mentioned (in the subject
line) the shapes displayed in the Themes group, but I'm not exactly sure
what you mean by that. The Themes group on the Design tab shows available
Themes. Themes are very similar to templates (like using Format | Slide
Design in PPT 2003 and prior) -- but you can use them Office-wide so the
same colors, fonts, and effects are available for your Word and Excel files,
too.

If you click on a Theme thumbnail on the ribbon, that theme is applied to
your slides. (Right-click the theme thumbnail to apply it only to specific
slides in the presentation). It does affect things in your presentation --
the slide background, the color scheme of the file (and any objects based on
the color scheme), the fonts, and the effects.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA101786241033.aspx?pid=CH100675771033
has some good information about themes. So do the two blog entries on Office
Themes at http://blogs.msdn.com/powerpoint/archive/2006/07.aspx

If that's not what you were asking, please post back.

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Ah, okay.

As far as effects specifically, yeah, they also apply to objects on the
slides, depending on which set of effects you've chosen to use in your
presentation.

Open a new, blank presentation. This uses the "Office" theme. If you insert
a shape onto a slide and then on the Drawing Tools Format tab of the ribbon,
choose the "intense effect, accent 1" from the quick style gallery on the
Shape Styles group, you can see the change in effects when you apply
different themes or effects sets.

So, after you create this shape and apply the "intense effect" quick style,
go back to the Design tab and hover over the Apex theme. The object's
gradient fill will change to a diagonal one, and the shadow makes the object
look much further (farther?) from the slide than the shadow on the
Office-themed object.

Now hover over the Metro theme. It has kind of a "glowy" effect. Now Opulent
to see the "split" look in that object. And then Median to see its bevel
effect.

So now, just click the Effects button on the Themes group of the Design tab
and run your mouse over the effects sets. These are the effects the
different themes use by default. This way, you can see the effects applied
to your object on the slide, even though the colors and fonts remain
"Office-themed."

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What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
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Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
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Echo S, thank you for the walk through! I now understand the use of effects.

Echo S said:
Ah, okay.

As far as effects specifically, yeah, they also apply to objects on the
slides, depending on which set of effects you've chosen to use in your
presentation.

Open a new, blank presentation. This uses the "Office" theme. If you insert
a shape onto a slide and then on the Drawing Tools Format tab of the ribbon,
choose the "intense effect, accent 1" from the quick style gallery on the
Shape Styles group, you can see the change in effects when you apply
different themes or effects sets.

So, after you create this shape and apply the "intense effect" quick style,
go back to the Design tab and hover over the Apex theme. The object's
gradient fill will change to a diagonal one, and the shadow makes the object
look much further (farther?) from the slide than the shadow on the
Office-themed object.

Now hover over the Metro theme. It has kind of a "glowy" effect. Now Opulent
to see the "split" look in that object. And then Median to see its bevel
effect.

So now, just click the Effects button on the Themes group of the Design tab
and run your mouse over the effects sets. These are the effects the
different themes use by default. This way, you can see the effects applied
to your object on the slide, even though the colors and fonts remain
"Office-themed."

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
(New!) The PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/2qzlpl
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html

Reb said:
Clarification: Using PPT 2007 and referring to the Effects gallery in
Themes
Group.
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You're welcome.

Just one quick thing I should mention -- other quick styles, not just the
"intense effect" style, use the various effects, too. (There are actually
subtle, moderate and intense effects.) So changing an effect set or a theme
will change all the different quick styles. It's just that you can usually
see it happening the best on one of the "intense effect" styles.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
(New!) The PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/2qzlpl
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html

Reb said:
Echo S, thank you for the walk through! I now understand the use of
effects.

Echo S said:
Ah, okay.

As far as effects specifically, yeah, they also apply to objects on the
slides, depending on which set of effects you've chosen to use in your
presentation.

Open a new, blank presentation. This uses the "Office" theme. If you
insert
a shape onto a slide and then on the Drawing Tools Format tab of the
ribbon,
choose the "intense effect, accent 1" from the quick style gallery on the
Shape Styles group, you can see the change in effects when you apply
different themes or effects sets.

So, after you create this shape and apply the "intense effect" quick
style,
go back to the Design tab and hover over the Apex theme. The object's
gradient fill will change to a diagonal one, and the shadow makes the
object
look much further (farther?) from the slide than the shadow on the
Office-themed object.

Now hover over the Metro theme. It has kind of a "glowy" effect. Now
Opulent
to see the "split" look in that object. And then Median to see its bevel
effect.

So now, just click the Effects button on the Themes group of the Design
tab
and run your mouse over the effects sets. These are the effects the
different themes use by default. This way, you can see the effects
applied
to your object on the slide, even though the colors and fonts remain
"Office-themed."

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
(New!) The PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit
http://tinyurl.com/2qzlpl
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html

Reb said:
Clarification: Using PPT 2007 and referring to the Effects gallery in
Themes
Group.

:

Sorry about the previous empty post. In haste I forgot to enter data
before
posting.

Do the various items displayed have a specific relationship to the
items
on
the slide? If so could one of you MVP gurus enlighten me?
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