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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...
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,
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!