1. Select the text you want to change.
2. On the Drawing toolbar, click the arrow next to Font Color .
3. Do one of the following:
   • To change the text color back to its default, click Automatic.
   • To change to a color in the color scheme (color scheme: A set of eight balanced colors that you can apply to slides, notes pages, or audience handouts. A color scheme consists of a background color, a color for lines and text, and six other colors selected to make slides easy to read.), click one of the eight colors below Automatic.

   • To change to a color that isn't in the color scheme, click More Colors. Click the color you want on the Standard tab, or click the Custom tab to mix your own color, and then click OK.

1. Click the WordArt (WordArt: Text objects you create with ready-made effects to which you can apply additional formatting options.) object to select it.

2. On the WordArt toolbar, click Format WordArt .

3. In the Format WordArt dialog box, on the Colors and Lines tab, under Fill, click the Color box.

4. Do one of the following:

   • Click a color in the palette that's displayed.

   • Click More Colors to choose from a greater color range.

   • Click Fill Effects to choose a gradient, textured, or patterned fill or to insert a picture (picture: A file (such as a metafile) that you can ungroup and manipulate as two or more objects, or a file that stays as a single object (such as bitmaps).) as the fill.

Note  If the WordArt has a border, select options under Line to change the border color and its weight and style.