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Office Theme Colors impact slide display in Powerpoint 2017?
Hi guys
Maybe your slides are set to transparent background?
Try this:
- Open the Design tab in the ribbon menu.
- To the far right, click onto Format Background.
- When the side pane pops out, check to see if your Transparency is set to 100% or thereabouts. If it is, reduce it to 0 (see images attached for example).
Comparison
With transparency at 100%Transparency set to 0%I hope that helps solve the issue?
Cheers
Damien
Hi guys
Maybe your slides are set to transparent background?
Try this:
- Open the Design tab in the ribbon menu.
- To the far right, click onto Format Background.
- When the side pane pops out, check to see if your Transparency is set to 100% or thereabouts. If it is, reduce it to 0 (see images attached for example).
Comparison
With transparency at 100%Transparency set to 0%I hope that helps solve the issue?
Cheers
Damien
I took a screenshot of a blank slide (with just the logo and top bar) that had the white background and saved it. Then just used this as the fill for the background and I'm good to go.
- Great to hear Preston! Well done!
Damien,
That was it for me. The creative team used transparent PNG files as the background images on certain slides rather than giving them a dedicated color. This is what my problem slide's background image looked like. Makes sense. Since the background is dark in my theme, the slide is rendered dark in the editor. Mystery solved!
- Awesome to hear! Well done!
Damien,
Thank you for the tip but my transparency is set to 0%. I think the root cause is that I am using a company template where the background is a PNG with just my company's logo and a header bar and the rest is transparent per the background being a PNG. So when I turn the transparency up towards 100%, my logo and header bar begin to disappear. I believe my solution is to create a template PPTX that uses a JPEG for the slides instead of a PNG.
