Changing the background

Using themes in a presentation can really add excitement to that presentation,…but if you want to tone it down a little, and you don't see a theme that's…applicable, you can actually work with the background on your own.…And that's we're going to do right now, continuing to work with our…NewHire presentation.…The first thing we're going to do though is remove the theme.…Well, in a way we're actually going to change the theme by clicking the…Themes tab on the Ribbon.…Next we'll just click the dropdown arrow, so we can see a list of all of our…themes. And the very first one under the Built-In group is White, and that really…is kind of like having no theme at all.…

So that is the default when you create a new blank presentation. It is a white…background, and there are no graphics.…It's kind of like working from scratch.…Now it's time to adjust the background. And you'll notice in the Theme…Options group in the Ribbon with the Themes tab still selected, we have a Background button.…And when we click this, we're going to see some presets, and you can choose from…