Changing Background Presentation’s In PowerPoint


The background of your slide presents the overall tone of your presentation. If your presentation’s background appears in cool blue tones, your presentation will feel far more peaceful than if you use bright orange and red tones in the background of your slides. You can change the background of a single slide or of your entire presentation. Often, presenters prefer to use the same background on all their slides. Doing so keeps their presentations consistent and maintains a similar mood throughout.

Request the Background Change
Click to display your Design ribbon, and click the Background Styles button to display a list of backgrounds available for your presentation. Click the Background tab to display the Background page.

Change the Background
As you scroll through the background images, PowerPoint’s live preview shows what your presentation will look like if you apply that background.

Customize the Background
Click the Background button at the bottom of the list of backgrounds to display the Format Background dialog box. The Format Background dialog box is where you can customize your presentation’s background to include colors and images you want to place on all your presentation’s slides. The Fill options determine whether the slides’ background will be filled with your selected color, and if so how that color (or colors) is to fill the background.

You can request no fill (leaving a white background), a solid fill, or a gradient fill from one color to another. If you elect to perform a gradient fill, the Format Background dialog box’s options increase so that you can adjust exactly how that gradient fill will occur. For example, you might want the gradient colors to change from one to another across your slides diagonally or perhaps horizontally. You can select from a list of colors to use for the gradients, as well as adjust how transparent the gradient effect is. The Hide Background Objects option determines whether background graphics you’ve placed on the slide will show or be hidden.

Select a Texture Background
PowerPoint comes with several textured backgrounds you can use instead of solid colors or gradient color fills. Instead of selecting a color, if you click to display the Texture drop-down list box, PowerPoint displays a list of textures that can form the background of your current slide or all your slides.

Apply the Background to One or All Slides
The way you close the Format Background dialog box determines whether the background is to apply to the currently selected slide or to your entire presentation’s set of slides. Click the Close button to apply the background to the current slide only. Click the Apply to All button to apply the background you’ve selected to your entire set of slides.

Use a Picture for the Background
If you click the Format Background dialog box’s File button, PowerPoint displays the Insert Picture dialog box, from which you can select a background graphic for your slides.