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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / September 2006Two black background colorsin Format-->Background
When I go to Format-->Background, I notice that there seem to be two options for black in the default palette? Is there any difference in the two black choices? I was hoping that when I format the background to black, (rather than choose a pre-made dark background) that PowerPoint would know to automatically choose white as the font color. But those two black choices in the default background colors don't seem to affect the font color at all. Andrew The colors you see are controlled by the color scheme active. You can modify this with : Format > slide design > color scheme and then at the bottom of the pane "Edit color schemes" Double click a color to change it and when happy > apply  SignatureDid that answer the question / help? _____________________________ John Wilson Microsoft Certified Office Specialist http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html > When I go to Format-->Background, I notice that there seem to be two > options for black in the default palette? Is there any difference in the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > two black choices in the default background colors don't seem to affect > the font color at all. John, That didn't quite answer the question. I basically know how to edit the colors. My question is one of software design: "Why does the default palette have two blacks?" If you're going to have a default palette, why put the same color twice? As far as I can tell, this has been the way the default palette has been through the last several versions of PowerPoint. I teach a PowerPoint workshop and sometimes the students ask, "Does it matter which black I choose for the background color?" I've never been able to answer that. As far as I can tell, it doesn't matter at all. ----- Andrew Lord > Andrew > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Microsoft Certified Office Specialist > http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html If you did as I said you would see that the two blacks are for title text and text. ie both are set to black (the same black!) by default SignatureDid that answer the question / help? _____________________________ John Wilson Microsoft Certified Office Specialist http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html > John, > That didn't quite answer the question. I basically know how to edit the [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Microsoft Certified Office Specialist > > http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html > That didn't quite answer the question. I basically know how to edit the > colors. My question is one of software design: "Why does the default palette > have two blacks?" If you're going to have a default palette, why put the same > color twice? There are different scheme slots for Title and all other text. In the default template, both are black. If you want the background to be the same color as the title or other text, you could choose one of those swatches, but that doesn't seem like a very good idea. I'd edit the scheme to make the Background color swatch black (the backgrounds of the slides will follow, assuming they've not been set individually to something else). Or if you only want to recolor individual slides, use Format, Background and instead of picking one of the palette colors, choose More Colors and pick the specific color you want. When you assign palette/scheme colors to shapes, the shape colors will change when the scheme changes. Very handy but very disconcerting when you don't understand what's going on. When you asign Other/More colors, they won't change when you edit the scheme. As far as I can tell, this has been the way the default palette > has been through the last several versions of PowerPoint. I teach a > PowerPoint workshop and sometimes the students ask, "Does it matter which [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Microsoft Certified Office Specialist > > http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================
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