How to Change Theme Colors in PowerPoint?

Aug 18, 2025

You found a perfect theme for your next PowerPoint presentation. Lets say you made the slides and everything looks great except the color of the theme. How to change theme colors in PowerPoint? Are you wondering if there is an easy way to change the color scheme for all slides instead of any specific slide?

Experimenting with the theme colors can help you get the desired aesthetic appeal for your slides. Many brands like to follow the color scheme of their brand identity. Any template having a great design can change colors easily without affecting the layout or design.

Change Theme Colors in PowerPoint

Every theme in PowerPoint has some defined features like theme color, font style, layout and other features. All properties related to theme are found in the Design tab in the top ribbon. Follow these steps to change theme color in PowerPoint.

Step 1

Open your PowerPoint presentation, and for this example, we will use an existing presentation with a custom theme.

Click the Design tab and go to the Variants section and click the arrow as shown in the image below.

Step 2

A menu will appear upon clicking the arrow. From the menu, navigate to the Color option and the next menu with different color options will appear.

Step 3

Select any color, and you will see that the open slide changes colors instantly when you hover the mouse over any color.

Entire theme color will change when you select the color. As you can see in the image below, one selection has changed the color scheme for entire presentation. All slides now have the new color scheme.

how to change theme colors in PowerPoint

How to Customize Theme Colors?

Do you want additional color options for themes apart from the available presets? PowerPoint allows custom selection of the colors for themes. Readily available selections make the color choice easier but you can always set custom colors for theme in PowerPoint.

Step 1

Go to Design tab >> click arrow in Variants section >> Colors >> Customize Colors. Follow the instructions as shown in the image below.

Step 2

From the new window, select different colors for your theme and you can also see the preview of the color selections in the right window.

Once you have made the color selections, name the color and then click the Save button to apply the new color scheme to your theme.

How to Change Theme Color with AI?

Keeping the same color for all presentation slides is important for a brand. Users might want to match the theme color with the color of their logo or any other part of the brand identity. With Twistly add-in, users can easily pick AI template and then change the color of the entire theme.

How to Change Theme Color in Twistly?

Using Twistly is easy as you just have to follow a few steps and AI generates professional slides for you within minutes. Let’s see how to make a complete presentation with Twistly in presentation and how to change template color with ease.

Step 1: Input Topic or AI Prompt

Open a blank PowerPoint presentation and launch Twistly. Provide the topic or AI prompt and make other selections, and click continue.

Step 2: Review the AI-generated outline

You will see the possible outline for presentation slides. Users can rearrange the outline, add a slide, or delete any. If everything looks fine, click continue.

Step 3: Select Template and Color

Twistly will ask you to pick a template from the available options and you will also see the color options available for theme. Make your selection of template and select the color and click continue.

You can also use the Preview option to see how your presentation will look with the selected theme color.

Step 4: Review, Edit, and Present your Slides

Wait for a few moments while Twistly generates slides. You will see that the final presentation has the theme and your selected color.

At this stage, you can use the AI options to optimize the slides or use the built-in features of PowerPoint to edit the slides.

Twistly not only allowed changing the theme color but also made an entire presentation from just a topic. You can explore the Twistly features to improve your communication and presentation skills with AI.

Final Verdict

These are the manual and AI solutions on how to change theme colors in PowerPoint. Making these changes is easy but optimizing an entire presentation with lots of slides can be pretty daunting for anyone.

Twistly makes it easier for users to make presentations from available data or topics. Instead of doing all the formatting and editing work manually, let AI handle this stuff for you. Try Twistly for free and experience the best AI presentation maker in 2025.