For more information, see Apply a colorful theme to your presentation. After you select a theme, all your slides will adopt that look. PowerPoint for the web comes with themes-sets of professionally designed colors, layouts, and fonts. Select Solid Fill, then pick White, Background 1 at the upper left corner of the color gallery.Īpply a comprehensive design theme to your presentation You can remove whatever slide background you currently have by resetting to a solid white background: Use the desktop PowerPoint app to remove a picture's background. PowerPoint for the web doesn't have the ability to remove a picture's background. Use the desktop PowerPoint app if you want to make a background picture transparent. PowerPoint for the web doesn't have the ability to make a picture transparent. PowerPoint for the web supports the following picture formats. To make all slides have this same background picture, on the Design tab, select Background again, then select Apply to All. Select Insert Picture, then under Picture Background, select either From Device (to select your own picture) or Stock Pictures (to select a picture from the Microsoft image library). For best results, choose a picture that has the same orientation as your slides. When you insert a picture as a background, PowerPoint for the web resizes the image as best as it can to fill the entire area of the slide. If you want to have all slides have this same background color, on the Design tab, select Background > Apply to All. (To reset the background to its previous state, select Home > Undo. Select Solid Fill, then pick a color from the gallery. See How do I give feedback on Microsoft Office? for more information. If you would like to have gradient fills in PowerPoint for the web, please let us know by providing us feedback. PowerPoint for the web doesn't support gradient fills for slide backgrounds. Alternatively, go to the Mac App Store, search for OneDrive and download the. Open the Downloads folder and run the OneDrive.pkg file. You can fill the background with a solid color. At the OneDrive For Mac section, click the Download button. To do more advanced formatting, such as adding a color gradient or making a picture transparent, use the desktop version of PowerPoint on Windows or macOS. In PowerPoint for the web, you can do basic background formatting of one or more slides with a solid color or a picture. Under Fill, select Picture or texture fill.Ĭhoose where you want to get the image from, then navigate to the image, select it, and select Insert.Īdjust other settings as needed, such as the transparency of the image. If you want them to apply to all slides in your file, at the bottom of the pane, select Apply to All. Select a color and other accompanying options, as applicable.īy default, the selections you make apply to the current slide. Under Fill, select Solid fill, Gradient fill, or Pattern fill. The Format Background pane opens on the right side of the window. Format the slide background with colorĪt the far-right end, select Format Background. You can add a solid or gradient color, a pattern, or an image as the background of a slide or an entire presentation.

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