Select a Texture Background

Office 2010 PowerPoint comes with several textured backgrounds you can use instead of solid colors or gradient color fills. Instead of selecting a color, if you click to display the Texture drop-down list box, PowerPoint 2010 displays a list of textures that can form the background of your current slide or all your slides.

Apply the Background to One or All Slides

The way you close the Format Background dialog box determines whether the background is to apply to the currently selected slide or to your entire pre-sentation’s set of slides.Click the Close button to apply the background to the current slide only.Click the Apply to All button to apply the background you’ve selected toyour entire set of slides.

If you’re used to previous versions of PowerPoint 2010 that used a slide master concept, you may be interested to know that download Office 2010 PowerPoint does support a slide master. However,with the background tools on the Design ribbon, you really don’t need to use a slide master to easily adjust a slide’s background or your entire presentation’s background.