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If you want your presentation to contain more than one theme (layouts that contain colors, fonts, and effects), add another slide master to it, and apply a theme to the new slide master.

Use multiple themes in a presentation

Your presentation currently has one slide master with a theme applied. To add a second theme, add another slide master with a different theme. Here's how:

  1. On the View tab, pick Slide Master.

    shows the slide master button on the ribbon in PowerPoint

  2. On the Slide Master tab, pick Insert Slide Master.

    A second slide master is inserted in the thumbnail pane on the left.

  3. With the new slide master selected in the thumbnail pane, on the Slide Master tab of the ribbon, select Themes, and choose a theme from the list.

    Shows Slide Master Themes options in PowerPoint

    The Slide Master you've added will now have a different theme from the other Slide Master in your presentation.

  4. When you've finished your selections, select Close Master View.

The new theme you just chose hasn't been applied to any slides yet, but now you have two different themes that you can apply to slides. See the two procedures below to make use of the new theme and slide master you've just added.

To apply a theme to new slides

  1. On the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Slides section, click the down arrow next to New Slide to open a gallery of slide-layout thumbnails.

    New slide button
  2. Scroll the thumbnails and click the theme and layout you want to use.

    Click arrow next to New slide for selection of masters

For more information, see Edit and re-apply a slide layout.

To apply a theme to existing slides

  1. Click the slide you want to change.

  2. In the Slides section, click the down arrow next to Slide Layout to drop down a selection of thumbnails.

    Layout button
  3. Scroll the thumbnails and click the theme and layout you want to use.

    Click the down arrow next to Layout for selection of masters

For more info, see Edit and re-apply a slide layout.

Links to more information about themes

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