So you’re creating your PowerPoint presentation and you realise that the colour of the text or shape that you’ve used isn’t quite the same colour as your logo and that spoils the “Corporate” effect; or, perhaps, you’d like to match the colour to a program logo if you’re writing about it (Excel Green, Word Blue or PowerPoint Orange, for example). You could, of course, take an educated guess & play around with the RGB colours of the Font or Shape’s colours, you could even try to find it within the colour spectrum that’s available from the “More colours” option… but it’s far easier to use the inbuilt Eyedropper tool. So, ok, how do we do that?
Accessing the Eyedropper tool
The Eyedropper tool is available anywhere that you can change the colour of something…
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| For a Shape – fill colour |
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| For a Shape Outline ①, Text Fill② or Text Outline ③ colour |
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| For Smart Art |
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Using the Eyedropper tool
Once you have activated the Eyedropper tool, then it’s a simple case of moving the Eyedropper (your mouse pointer actually changes to look like a physical Eyedropper) over the colour that you want to match…
… and click on the colour and the text box (or text, etc) will change colour to match
What if the colour I want to match isn’t in my Presentation?
Sometimes you’ll want to match to something that’s outside of your presentation, for example on a website. That’s relatively straightforward…
- Restore down your PowerPoint screen so that you can see both it and the web page that you want to grab a colour from
- As before, choose the Eyedropper from that section of your presentation (Shape or text fill or outline or text colour), but this time, hold down your left hand mouse button whilst you move to the colour that you want to use
- Click on the colour and your shape, etc, will change accordingly
