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Copper Contributor

Sep 24, 2017

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Office Theme Colors impact slide display in Powerpoint 2017?

I am working in Powerpoint 2017 on a new PPT template from marketing. I run Office using the Black Office Theme. When I open the new deck, the colors are not consistent between the editing view and t...

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Damien_Rosario
Nov 28, 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

Damien_Rosario

Silver Contributor

Nov 28, 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

Preston Wade

Copper Contributor

Nov 28, 2017

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.