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Change the slide color or background

Change the slide color or background

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Change the slide color or background

- [Instructor] Red30 is a high tech company who's 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. Though we could change to a design theme here. With the slide selected, if I change to the design tab, here's all my themes that we saw in the beginning of the presentation. I can choose any of these. And if I hover my mouse over it, I'll see how the slide changes. I can also choose some color variants. But I'm interested in changing the background right from here. So in the design tab, I'm going to click format background all the way on the right. Right now it's set to a solid fill. But I'm going to choose a gradient fill. I can choose from some preset gradients. I'll start with this nice radial gray. I'd still like it to be black, however. So I'm going to make sure the direction is coming from the center, which is how I want it. And here's my gradient stops…

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