Slide background fill

To fill a slide with a color, follow the steps below:

1.Select this slide on the Slide bar.

2.To color the slide with the last color used to fill objects earlier, on the Toolbar, in the Design section, click  Fill Color.

3.To fill the slide with a different color, click the arrow to the right of the  Fill Color button.

4.In the color selection pane that opens, specify the slide fill color in one of the following ways:

•Choose a color from one of the color sets provided.

•Specify the color code manually.

•Copy the color with an eyedropper.

Choose a color from the color sets provided

The following colors sets are available in the color selection pane:

•Theme Colors: This block contains the color palette of the current document's theme.

•Standard Colors: This block contains the colors that users most often choose when formatting a document.

•Recent Colors: This block contains up to the last ten colors that you selected when formatting the document earlier. The Recent Colors set is displayed if you have selected at least one color.

Hovering the mouse cursor over any color displays the value of that color in the RGB color model. For example, RGB 192,80,77.

Left-click a color to select it.

The color will be added to the Recent Colors set and checked. The color selection pane will close. The slide will be colored in the selected color.

Specify the color code manually

If you do not find the appropriate color in the listed color sets, specify the color code manually:

1.Click More Colors.

2.In the Select Color window that appears, specify the desired color as a HEX code or in RGB format.

3.Click OK.

The manually specified color will be added to the Recent Colors set and checked. The color selection pane will close. The slide will be colored in the selected color.

Copy the color with an eyedropper

You can use the eyedropper to simultaneously copy a color from text or an object on a slide and apply that color to the slide.

To copy a color using the eyedropper, follow these steps:

1.Click  Eyedropper. The color selection pane will close and the cursor will look like a "sight" for color selection.

2.Hover the cursor over the color you want to color the slide. For more precise color selection, refer to the area to the right of the cursor. It displays the color of the pixel that the cursor is currently hovering over.

3.Left-click the color.

The slide is colored in the selected color, and the cursor returns to its standard appearance. The specified color is added to the Recent Colors set and checked in the color selection pane.

If you want to disable the eyedropper without selecting a color, press Esc.

To fill a slide with an image, follow these steps:

1.Select this slide on the Slide bar.

2.On the Toolbar, select the Design section and click the arrow to the right of the  Fill Color button.

3.In the color selection pane that opens, in the Image block, click Select.

4.In the File manager window, select the desired image and click Open.

To remove the slide fill, follow the steps below:

1.Select this slide on the Slide bar.

2.On the Toolbar, select the Design section and click the arrow to the right of the  Fill Color button.

3.In the color selection pane that opens, click No Fill.