ColorFormat.SchemeColor Property

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PowerPoint Developer Reference

Returns or sets the color in the applied color scheme that's associated with the specified object. Read/write.

Syntax

expression.SchemeColor

expression   A variable that represents a ColorFormat object.

Return Value
PpColorSchemeIndex

Remarks

The value of the SchemeColor property can be one of these PpColorSchemeIndex constants.

ppAccent1
ppAccent2
ppAccent3
ppBackground
ppFill
ppForeground
ppNotSchemeColor
ppSchemeColorMixed
ppShadow
ppTitle

Example

This example switches the background color on slide one in the active presentation between an explicit red-green-blue value and the color-scheme background color.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  With ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
    .FollowMasterBackground = False
    With .Background.Fill.ForeColor
        If .Type = msoColorTypeScheme Then
            .RGB = RGB(0, 128, 128)
        Else
            .SchemeColor = ppBackground
        End If
    End With
End With

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