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Change the slide color or background

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Change the slide color or background

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- [Instructor] Red30 is a high-tech company whose branding often utilizes a sleek black background. Since we didn't choose a theme with a dark background, we can change each slide color manually to fit the needs of that slide. We could also change to a design theme here on the fly. With the slide selected, if I change to the design tab, here's all the themes that we saw when we created a new presentation. I can hover my mouse over any of them, and see how the slide changes. I can also choose some color variants, but I'm interested in changing the background right from here. On the design tab still, I'm going to click format background all the way on the right-hand side. Right now, it's set to a solid fill, which is white, but I'm going to change it to a gradient fill. You might not be using gradient all the time, but this is a good exercise to learn how the slide pane works because you'll be using it a…

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