Changing the background of a single slide In some PP 2007 themes I was able to change the background of individual slides within a presentation without applying the change to all other slides. I'm trying to do this is one now, and it won't let me. Office 2011 for Mac: Apply Entrance Effects to PowerPoint Slides. A company logo in the corner of all PowerPoint slides in a presentation tells viewers in no uncertain terms which company the presenter works for. And a company logo looks good, too. From there, change the logo’s size and position.
Note: You can have more than one Slide Master in your presentation, and any of those multiple Slide Masters can influence the background choices you see in your presentation. Follow these steps to learn more:. Launch PowerPoint.
You will see the Presentation Gallery. Here, Select the Blank Presentation option to open a new presentation with a blank slide. Typically the new presentation has Office Theme applied. If your presentation is using another Theme, apply the Office Theme since this is a basic and clean Theme that lends itself best to changes and edits that we discuss later in this tutorial.
If you do not know how to apply a Theme, explore our tutorial. Figure 1: Blank presentation with Office Theme applied. Now, access the View tab of the and click the Slide Master button, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 2. Figure 2: Slide Master button.
This opens, as shown in Figure 3. Here, within the left pane you'll find one large slide thumbnail that represents the Slide Master. We have selected this Slide Master as shown in Figure 3 (indicated by the red highlight). Below the Slide Master are several smaller slide thumbnails. These represent individual.
For now, do understand that changes made to the Slide Master influence its Slide Layouts. And in turn, this influences all slides within your presentation that are following that Slide Master. Figure 3: Slide Master view. Note: In hierarchy terms, Slide Layouts are dependent for their appearance on the Slide Master although you can individually override these dependencies. Now, make sure that the Slide Master is in selected status as shown in Figure 3 above, and click the Background Styles button (highlighted in blue within Figure 3, above).
This brings up the Background Styles drop-down gallery with 12 default slide background styles shown highlighted in red within Figure 4. Click on the style of your choice to apply it to the Slide Master.
In Figure 4, you can see the Style 7 being selected. Figure 4: Background Styles drop-down gallery. Note: These 12 default styles change when you apply a different to your presentation.
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Also, do you see the Format Background and Reset Slide Background options (highlighted in blue within Figure 4) below the Background Style thumbnails? These options are explained in our tutorial. The Reset Slide Background option is meant for individual Slide Layouts - it is used to reset the slide background to its original status, on a particular slide layout. This will apply the selected Background Style to the Slide Master and all the Slide Layouts belonging to the selected Slide Master as well, as shown in Figure 5 (compare with Figure 3 shown earlier on this page). Figure 5: Background Style changed within the Slide Master view.
Click the Close Master button (highlighted in blue within Figure 5, above). This will get you back to, where you can see the new Background Style applied to all your slides. Save your presentation often.
How to change background colour on slide in PowerPoint. To apply a solid color to your background, Right-click the slide that you want to add a background color to and then click 'Format Background' in Solid fill, Select Color and then choose the color that you want.