Fills for Slide Background: Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint

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.

Microsoft Windows

Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2016

Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013

Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2011

Tutorial Code: 08 06 03
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