Apply solid fills to slide backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. Solid color fills for slide backgrounds benefit from a large expanse of just one color.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 and higher
PowerPoint's Slide Backgrounds can be applied 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 2013 for Windows 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! Don't use a bright orange, a fluorescent yellow or some other striking color as a background for your slide! Do choose your colors with caution; neutral colors such as white, grey, black, blue, and green always work better.
As you can see in Figure 1 below, neutral colors shown on the right side work so much better as fills for Slide Backgrounds rather than bright colors on the left.
Figure 1: Choose your background colors carefully
Follow these steps to use solid fills for your Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows:
See Also:
Fills for Slide Background: Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds (Glossary Page)
Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
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