

Tip: Want to know how you can select slides in Slide Sorter view, look at our Slide Sorter view tutorial. In Figure 5, you can see Style 11 is selected.įigure 5: Style 11 chosen for the slide background Among these twelve slide Background Styles, select any style of your choice by clicking on it. The highlight indicates the background style applied to the active slide. One of these 12 styles may be highlighted.This will bring up a sub-gallery that contains 12 default Background Styles, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 4.

Within this gallery choose the Background Styles option (highlighted in red within Figure 3).įigure 3: Background Styles option to be selected This brings up the Variants drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 3.Now, access the Design tab of the Ribbon and click the downward pointing arrow within the Variants group, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 2.Figure 1, shows our sample presentation opened in Slide Sorter view.įigure 1: Presentation in Slide Sorter view Create a new presentation or open an existing presentation.You can change your presentation slides to follow any of these Background Styles by following the steps explained below: These styles are all coordinated and also designed to work well as a set of complementary backgrounds. However, even without exploring all those options, there are twelve Background Styles that PowerPoint offers for every presentation by default. You can always change this slide background to a picture, a solid color, a pattern, or even a gradient. Alternatively, if you open any of your existing presentations, the background of the slides may be in a different color or fill depending upon the Theme that the presentation is based upon. When you create a new presentation in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows, you may typically see a single slide with a white background.
