How to Use Eyedropper in PowerPoint?

Matching colors in a PowerPoint for different elements is not easy. You see professionally designed templates and wonder how the designer has maintained the color consistency throughout the slides. Well, you can also do the same by learning how to use the eyedropper in PowerPoint.

There are different tools in PowerPoint that make working with color precise, swift, and more convenient. In this guide, we will learn how to match and detect colors with the eyedropper and how to use it for your PowerPoint slides.

What is Eyedropper in PowerPoint?

Eyedropper is a helpful design tool in PowerPoint that allows you to capture colors from any element of the slide and then apply them to the selected shape, background, image, text, or any part. Use of the eyedropper is not limited to slides only.

Eyedropper can be used to capture colors from any part of the screen, including:

• Webpage
• Toolbar
• Icons in the taskbar
• Images from the other tab
• Any other color that is available on your display screen

Eyedropper in PowerPoint is a visual color picker. With the eyedropper, you move the pointer to any element or color, and it will display the RGB code for that color. If you want to apply the target color to your selected element or text, the next sections have the answers.

Use Eyedropper in PowerPoint

The Eyedropper feature is not limited to text boxes or backgrounds. Almost every option with color choices has an eyedropper tool. In PowerPoint, the eyedropper is available in font colors, border colors, shape fill, text fill, border fill, and all other options where color selection is involved.

We will discuss the steps on how to use the eyedropper in PowerPoint and how to capture color from any other screen or tab on your computer.

Step 1: Select the Object for Recoloring

Open your PowerPoint presentation and select the object that you want to recolor. Eyedropper works for almost every object, like shapes, icons, and text boxes. For better understanding, let’s select a box from the slide.

This box is red in color by default. We want to change the color of the box from red to the color of any other object on the slide.

Step 2: Select Eyedropper Tool

After selecting the object in the slide, go to the Shape Format tab. As we want to change the color of the box, click the Shape Fill button and from the menu, choose Eyedropper.

Step 3: Select the Target Color

Selecting the eyedropper tool will turn your cursor into a pencil. Now, we have two possibilities.

Option 1: Choose New Color from the Same Slide

If you want to choose the new color from the same slide, simply move the pencil to the target object or color. And once color details appear, click the color, and the new color will be instantly applied to the object, box in our case.

Option 2: Choose New Color from other Slides or Part of the Display

You want to choose a new color from any other slide or even from the taskbar, navigation bar, icons in the taskbar, or any other part of the visible display.

After selecting the eyedropper, left-click anywhere on the open slide and move the pencil to the target location while holding the click. Once you have found the target color, release the click, and the new color will be applied.

As you can see in the image, we have moved the pencil to the red part of the Chrome icon in the taskbar, and the box color has changed according to the selected part’s color in the Chrome icon.

Similarly, you can apply colors from other slides or any other part of the display while holding the left click. It may seem complicated, but practically it is easy.

How to Use Eyedropper on other Tabs?

Imagine you have opened a browser and want to apply colors from the browser to your PowerPoint presentation. The ideal way to do so is to use the steps from Option 2.

But instead of switching tabs, you should resize PowerPoint and other tabs, say Chrome, in such a way that both programs can be adjusted at the same time on the screen.

A window configuration like the above image can help you to use the eyedropper easily on two or more different screens.

Now, select the object, choose the eyedropper, and move to the other screen while holding the left click, and leave when you are on the right color.

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Final Words

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