Formatting is the way you present, organize, and arrange a presentation. It involves the type of font you apply, matching colors, text emphasis throughout the presentation, and background colours and styles.

You can change the background effects on slides, notes, and handouts. Changing the background is useful if you want a colour shade or texture for a slide background and not all the other design elements from a design template. You may want to change the background to emphasize different sections of a presentation. Background effects include colours, gradient fills, textures, and pictures.

When you change the slide background, you can apply the change to the current slide or all slides. For notes, you can change the current notes page or all notes pages. When you change the background for handouts, it applies to all pages as well as the printed outline.