| You can also fine-tune the color scheme that you add to a slide or slides by changing the background fill. This works best in cases where the design template and color scheme that you selected don't provide a background color for the slide or slides. You must be careful, however, because you don't want to pick a background color that obscures the text and graphics that you place on the slide or slides. To change the background fill on a slide or slides, follow these steps: -
Switch to the Slide Sorter view (select View, Slide Sorter ). -
(Optional) If you are going to change the background fill for selected slides, select those slides in the Slide Sorter window. -
Select the Format menu and then select Background . The Background dialog box appears (see Figure 4.5). Figure 4.5. Use the Background dialog box to add a fill color to a slide or slides. -
Click the drop-down arrow at the bottom of the dialog box and choose a fill color from the color palette that appears. -
To assign the fill color to all the slides in the presentation, click Apply to All . To assign the fill color to selected slides (if you selected slides in step 2), click Apply . |