Two black background colorsin Format-->Background

[Andrew Lord]

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.

 

[Guest]

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
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John Wilson
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[Andrew Lord]

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

 

[Guest]

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
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[Steve Rindsberg]

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