setting chart text color

[Asa Cronqvist]

I am making a template in PowerPoint 2007. I would like for the chart
text to be white since I have a dark background. I don't want to make
a chart type template. I want the text in all my charts to be white.
How can I set this? Is it one of the theme colors that I should change
to white? Which one?

 

[Emma Bannister]

under the design tab/ themes/ colors/ right click and then edit your
selected color theme.
you will need to change the 1st 'Text/Background - Dark 1'setting to white.

note by doing this maychange your slide font colors (depending on how you
set up) - so you will need to change these as necessary in the master
template.
hope that helps

 

[Echo S]

On the Design tab | Colors, choose Create New Theme Colros and set up your
theme colors so the color scheme is like this:

text/background dark 1 = black
text/background light 1 = white
text/background dark 2 = a dark color
text/background light 2 = a light color

Your chart font colors should change to light when you select one of the
dark colors as your slide background. It will also change the darks to
lights and vice-versa when you choose Background Styles there on the Design
tab. Those colors are based on the color scheme you set up.

Open a new, blank presentation. Choose a layout with 2 content placeholders.
In the first placeholder, type some text, and in the 2nd, add a chart. Now
go to the Design tab and choose that Background Styles button. Hover over
the top row and see how the fonts change when the background changes. That's
what you want to happen on your file, but your color scheme has to be set up
correctly.

 

[Asa Cronqvist]

Thanks for your help. Emmas suggestion helps. It got me what I needed.
BUT, if I want to add a table or a SmartArt, some backgrounds become
light and the white text doesn't look good. So I want to use "Echo's"
suggestion. But my problem is that the dark background isn't really
dark. I'm using a dark image in the slide master. I can't use a dark
background behind it either because the edges (about a quarter of an
inch) is white. So that suggestion doesn't work. The text becomes
black because PowerPoint thinks it's a light background. Is there a
way around this?

 

[Echo S]

I would just put a white box behind the image and leave the background dark.

 

[Asa Cronqvist]

Very clever! Thanks

 

[Echo S]

Very clever! Thanks

;-) Glad it will work. Sometimes we have to jump through a few hoops --
luckily they're little ones in this instance! -- in order to get that
background color to be what we need, especially when a picture is involved.