Coloring and Shading a Slide Background


 Microsoft Office Specialist     In PowerPoint, you can customize the background of a slide by adding a color , a shade , a texture, a pattern, or even a picture.

A shaded background is a visual effect in which a solid color gradually changes from light to dark or dark to light. PowerPoint offers one-color and two-color shaded backgrounds with six styles: horizontal, vertical, diagonal up, diagonal down, from corner, and from title. For a one-color shaded background, the shading color can be adjusted lighter or darker , depending on your needs. You can also choose a preset color background, one of 24 professionally designed backgrounds in which the color shading changes direction according to the shading style selected.

If you want something fancier than shading, you can give the slide background a texture or a pattern, or you can use a picture. PowerPoint comes with several different textures, patterns, and pictures that you can apply to a presentation.

Tip  

To add a picture to a slide s background, click Background on the Format menu, click the down arrow to the right of the Background box, click Fill Effects, and then click the Picture tab. Click Select Picture, navigate to the folder that contains the picture you want to use, double-click the file name , and then click OK. To apply the change to the current slide, click Apply, or to apply the change to all slides, click Apply to All.

In this exercise, you will add a shade to a slide background and then change the background from shaded to textured.

USE the AddBackground presentation in the practice file folder for this topic. This practice file is located in the My Documents\Microsoft Press\PowerPoint 2003 SBS\ChangingColor\ColoringSlide folder and can also be accessed by clicking Start/All Programs/Microsoft Press/PowerPoint 2003 Step by Step .

OPEN the AddBackground presentation.

  1. Move to Slide 7, and on the Format menu, click Background .

    The Background dialog box appears.

  2. Below the preview in the Background fill box, click the down arrow to the right of the text box.

    A drop-down palette appears.

    click to expand
  3. Click Fill Effects in the drop-down palette.

    The Fill Effects dialog box appears, showing the Gradient tab with three color options, six shading styles, and four variants for the selected shading style. Currently, no colors or shading style are selected.

  4. In the Colors area, select the One color option.

    The Color 1 box appears.

  5. Click the down arrow to the right of the Color 1 box, and click the Light Green color box (fills) on the drop-down palette.

  6. In the box below Color 1 , drag the slide control all the way to the Light end of the box.

  7. In the Shading styles area, select the Vertical option.

    The boxes in the Variants area change to vertical styles.

  8. In the Variants area, click the upper-right shading box.

    The Sample box displays a preview of your selection.

    click to expand
    Tip  

    For a gradient that shifts from one color to a second color, select the Two colors option and then pick a second color. Choosing the Preset option accesses a series of professionally designed color gradients, which range from simple to complex. The different shading styles and variants change the angle and direction of the color gradient ”you can even have it emanating from the slide s title. If you re applying a gradient fill effect to a shape instead of to a slide s background, you can adjust the transparency to show what s underneath the shape, and you can decide whether the fill is static or rotates when the shape rotates.

  9. Click OK .

  10. In the Background dialog box, click Apply .

    PowerPoint applies the shaded background only to the current slide.

    click to expand
  11. Move to Slide 1, and on the Format menu, click Background .

    The Background dialog box appears.

  12. Click the down arrow to the right of the box at the bottom of the Background fill area, and then click Fill Effects .

    The Fill Effects dialog box appears.

  13. Click the Texture tab, and click the Papyrus textured fill in the lower-left corner.

    The name of the texture appears at the bottom of the dialog box, and the selected texture is displayed in the Sample box.

    click to expand
    Tip  

    If you have a background texture or other graphic image of your own that you d like to use as a background for slides, you can click Other Texture, browse to your file, and double-click it. PowerPoint adds your graphic to the options available on the Texture tab, and you can select and apply it just as you would any of the textures that come with PowerPoint.

  14. Click OK , and then in the Background dialog box, click Apply .

    PowerPoint applies the textured background only to the current slide.

    click to expand
  15. On the Format menu, click Background .

    The Background dialog box appears.

  16. Click the down arrow to the right of the Background fill box, and click the White color box on the drop-down palette.

  17. Click Apply to All .

    PowerPoint applies the color scheme s background to all the slides in the presentation.

  18. On the Standard toolbar, click the Save button to save the presentation.

CLOSE the AddBackground presentation, and if you are not continuing on to the next chapter, quit PowerPoint.




Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Step by Step
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
ISBN: B003D3OG7E
EAN: N/A
Year: 2004
Pages: 145

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