 Hello. Today we're going to talk about adding a colored background to your PowerPoint presentation. So when you open up PowerPoint, you have a blank white slide. You are going to move your mouse up to the Design tab on the ribbon, and you can see all the different colors of choices that you have. Again, if you click on the down arrow, you have more choices. So as you run your mouse over, you get an idea of what the colored slide will look like. So that's a very easy way of adding color. Now there are also other ways here that you can add color, and that would be clicking over to the right side of your ribbon where it says Background Styles. Now these are a little bit too dark for me anyway, so I come down because I want more choices, and I'm going to click on Format Background. Here you see you have another list of choices. The solid fill will just give you a nice color background, and you come down to the color box, clicking on the down arrow, and you have other choices here. So if we make it maybe a light blue, and then you would click Close. Now if you want all your slides to be this color, you would click Apply to All. The other options you have would be if you want a little slightly different design called Gradient Fill. They have preset colors, so you can click on the down arrow, and this is very bright, or you can go a little softer, and click on the blue, and you can see the different tones. Okay, so let's keep with that one, and I'm going to click Close. Very good! Now it's time for your review. So what is this toolbar for? Yes, you click on the design to open up the theme toolbar to add more color. I want to add some color. What do I click on next? Yes, for more choices you click on the button that says Background Styles. Then you click on Format Background. What do I do with this pop-up box? You can click on Solid Fill or Gradient Fill. Then you click on the color down arrow to change the color. And don't forget, click Close, or you can click Apply to All.