
Now, if you look over the menu, there are tons of different ways you could fiddle with this, as much as you want. In fact, the top part here is white and the color comes in at the bottom corner. Click that and you can see it, kind of blends, light in color.

If we put black text on them, it is really hard to read.Īlso, if you are going to be in an auditorium, some place dark where the audience is dark, make sure you use a dark or black background. Think about the PowerPoints we have seen, where you had those blue, dark blue backgrounds. The star is your foreground of your presentation.Īlso, if you use a strong color, it is going to limit the color palette. One – don't be afraid to use white or black. Now, the very tip of this eyedropper, if you put it on a color – one, if you rest it there, it shows you the RGB colors.īut if you click it, there you go, it turns the background to that color, right from that image.Ĭouple of things about color. Let me go over here to Color and go down to this Eyedropper tool and click that.Īnd I move. Let's say for your company colors, you can put that in your PowerPoint.īut, there is also a shortcut for that, and this is new in PowerPoint 2013. If you get those from your design, you can plug those in and get the exact color. There is a thing called RGB colors and they have a number value. Custom is great because you can plug in values. That's why, these are chosen.īut you also can use standard colors, or you can click here for More Colors.įirst, there is a color wheel, you can choose a color, or you can go up to Custom.

Now, even though this is a blank presentation, it has a theme-the Office theme, and each theme has its own palette of colors. Let me just click on this Fill color box and it gives me colors. So, some place no element, right-click, Format Background, and it opens up this menu. If I click on this image, or I click over here on this text box, I get a different menu when I right-click. Now, one thing, you want to make sure is click on a blank part of the slide. So here I have almost a blank slide and to get to the background menu, I just right-click on my mouse and I can see Format Background.

You could start with a theme that controls backgrounds, and colors and fonts.īut if you want to start from scratch, that's what we are going to dig into. In this course, we are going to work with backgrounds in PowerPoint.
