PowerPoint 2007: Creating slide background to your presentation

Add a background style to your presentation

Click the slide or slides that you want to add a background style to.
To select multiple slides, click the first slide, and then press and hold CTRL while you click the other slides.
On the Design tab, in the Background group, click the arrow next to Background Styles.
Right-click the background style that you want, and then do one of the following:

To apply the background style to the selected slides, click Apply to Selected Slides.
To apply the background style to all of the slides in your presentation, click Apply to All Slides.
To replace the background style for the selected slides and any other slides in the presentation that use the same slide master, click Apply to Matching Slides. This option is available only when your presentation contains multiple slide masters.

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Customize a background style for your presentation

Click the slide or slides that you want to add a background style to.
To select multiple slides, click the first slide, and then press and hold CTRL while you click the other slides.
On the Design tab, in the Background group, click the arrow next to Background Styles.
Click Format Background, and then choose the options that you want.

Tip: To make your presentation handouts easier to read, you can hide nonplaceholder objects such as a table, chart, graphic, equation, or other form of information that are on slide master layouts or custom layouts. To do so, click the slide or slides that you want to hide the background graphics for, and then on the Design tab, in the Background group, select the Hide Background Objects check box.

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Use a picture as a slide background

Click the slide that you want to add a background picture to.
To select multiple slides, click a slide, and then press and hold CTRL while you click the other slides.
On the Design tab, in the Background group, click Background Styles > Format Background.
Click Fill > Picture or texture fill.
Do one of the following:
- To insert a picture from a file, click File, and then locate and double-click the picture that you want to insert.
- To paste a picture that you copied, click Clipboard.
- To use clip art as a background picture, click Clip Art, and then in the Search text box, type a word or phrase that describes the clip that you want, or type all or part of the file name of the clip. To include clip art that is available on Microsoft Office Online in your search, select the Include content from Office Online check box, click Go, and then click the clip to insert it.
Do one of the following:
- To use the picture as a background for the slides that you selected, click Close.
- To use the picture as a background for all of the slides in your presentation, click Apply to All.

Notes

To adjust a picture's relative lightness (brightness) or the difference between its darkest and lightest areas (contrast), in the Format Background dialog box, click the Picture pane, and then choose the options that you want.
To have text appear on top of the picture, add a text box. On the Insert tab in the Text group, click Text Box, and then drag to make it the size that you want. Enter your text in text box.

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Add a texture background

Click the slide that you want to add a background texture to.
To select multiple slides, click a slide, and then press and hold CTRL while you click the other slides.
On the Design tab, in the Background group, click Background Styles > Format Background.
Click Fill > Picture or texture fill.
Click Texture, and then click the texture that you want to use as a background.
Do one of the following:
- To use the texture as a background for the slides that you selected, click Close.
- To use the texture as a background for all of the slides in your presentation, click Apply to All.

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Delete a background

Click the slide that you want to delete the background for.
To select multiple slides, click a slide, and then press and hold CTRL while you click the other slides.
On the Design tab, in the Background group, click Background Styles, and then click Reset Slide Background.

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