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PowerPoint’s Slide Backgrounds can be filled with a solid color, a gradient, a texture or a picture, or even one of PowerPoint’s built-in patterns. We explored a generic walkthrough on changing the Slide Background in our Format Slide Background in PowerPoint tutorial. This tutorial explores how you can use a solid color as the fill for your Slide Background, solid color fills have the advantage of showing a large expanse in just one color. This does keep the slide uncluttered and draws the audience’s attention away from the background to the foreground elements, and that’s a good thing! Unless you use a bright orange, a fluorescent yellow, or some other striking color as a background for your slide! So do choose your colors with caution – neutral colors such as white, grey, black, blue, and green always work better.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2016
Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013
Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2010
Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 08 06 03
Previous: 08 06 02 Format Slide Background in PowerPoint
Next: 08 06 04 Gradient Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint
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Jan Ozer has worked with digital video since 1991, originally in the video compression industry and since 1996 as a contributing editor for EventDV and PC Magazine. Jan teaches courses in digital video production, both privately and for the University of Wisconsin Department of Continuing Education, and shoots and produces DVDs for local musicians near his hometown in Galax, Virginia.
Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:
Encoding Video for PowerPoint
April 18, 2005
An Interview with Jan Ozer
April 18, 2005
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When you create a new presentation in PowerPoint, you may typically see a single slide with a white background. Alternatively, if you open any of your existing presentations, the background of the slides may be in a different color or fill depending upon the Theme that the presentation is based upon. You can always change this slide background to a picture, a solid color, a pattern, or even a gradient. However, even without exploring all those options, there are twelve Background Styles that PowerPoint offers for every presentation by default. These styles are all coordinated and also designed to work well as a set of complementary backgrounds.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Slide Background Styles in PowerPoint 2016
Slide Background Styles in PowerPoint 2013
Slide Background Styles in PowerPoint 2010
Slide Background Styles in PowerPoint 2007
Slide Background Styles in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 08 06 01
Previous: 08 05 01 Change Default Shape Attributes in PowerPoint
Next: 08 06 02 Format Slide Background in PowerPoint
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3-D Options in PowerPoint enable you to format the bevel style of a shape with many more options than those available in the conventional Bevel gallery. And when we say more, we actually mean a whole lot more! You can customize 3-D options such as contour, contour color, depth, depth color, materials, and lighting, almost like a full blown 3-D program.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
3-D Format Options for Shapes in PowerPoint 2016
3-D Format Options for Shapes in PowerPoint 2013
3-D Format Options for Shapes in PowerPoint 2010
3-D Format Options for Shapes in PowerPoint 2007
3-D Format Options for Shapes in PowerPoint 2003
3-D Format Options for Shapes in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 08 03 16
Previous: 08 03 15 Apply 3D Depth to Shapes in PowerPoint
Next: 08 04 01 Shape Styles in PowerPoint
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Depth, as a parameter for 3-D objects, plays a very important role. In simple terms, Depth is the distance from the highest to the lowest, and typically has a value that’s larger than zero. Even though you rotate a shape that has a Depth of zero, you won’t see any optimum results. So, you can first rotate your object, but you must add Depth soon after.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Apply 3-D Depth to Shapes in PowerPoint 2016
Apply 3-D Depth to Shapes in PowerPoint 2013
Tutorial Code: 08 03 15
Previous: 08 03 14 3D Rotation Options for Shapes in PowerPoint
Next: 08 03 16 3D Format Options for Shapes in PowerPoint
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