Change a Presentation’s Background

The background of your slide provides the overall tone of your presentation. If  your presentation’s background appears in cool blue tones, your presentation will feel far more relaxed than if you use bright orange and red tones in the back-ground of your slides.

You can change the background of a single slide or of your entire presentation.Often, presenters prefer to use the same background on all their slides. Doing so keeps their presentations consistent and maintains a similar mood throughout.

Request the Background Change

Click to display your Design ribbon, and click the Background Styles button to display a list of backgrounds available for your presentation.Click the Background tab to display the Background page.

Change the Background

As you scroll through the background images, Office 2010 PowerPoint’s live preview shows what your presentation will look like if you apply that background.

Customize the Background

Click the Background button at the bottom of the list of backgrounds to dis-play the Format Background dialog box. The Format Background dialog box is where you can customize your presentation’s background to include colors and images you want to place on all your presentation’s slides.

The Fill options determine whether the download Office 2010 PowerPoint slides’ background will be filled with your selected color, and if so how that color (or colors) is to fill the back-ground. You can request no fill (leaving a white background), a solid fill, or a gradient fill from one color to another. If you elect to perform a gradient fill,the Format Background dialog box’s options increase so that you can adjust exactly how that gradient fill will occur. For example, you might want the gradient colors to change from one to another across your slides diagonally or perhaps horizontally. You can select from a list of colors to use for the gradi-ents, as well as adjust how transparent the gradient effect is.The Hide Background Objects option determines whether background graphics you’ve placed on the slide will show or be hidden.