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History Background for PowerPoint

The History PowerPoint Background Images set is designed to give your presentations a scholarly, timeless, and visually meaningful look. Featuring aged paper textures, classic illustrations, and subtle historical motifs, these backgrounds create an atmosphere of depth and authenticity.

Whether you’re preparing an academic lecture, school project, museum presentation, or research report, this set ensures your slides appear cohesive, engaging, and easy to follow. Each image is high-quality, versatile, and perfect for adding a historical touch to your content.

Features:
• Set of 4 history-themed background images (JPG format)
• High-resolution and fully compatible with PowerPoint and Google Slides
• Authentic textures and motifs inspired by historical documents and artifacts
• Ideal for education, research, culture, and history-related presentations
• Free to download and easy to use
• Provides a consistent, classic, and informative visual style across slides

What’s included?
  • Check Icon1 background image for your cover slide
  • Check Icon2 background images for body slides
  • Check Icon1 background image the closing slide
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How to Get Started

1

Open Format Background

Click the “Design” tab on the ribbon, then at the far-right end, click Format Background. The Format Background pane will open on the right side of your window.

2

Choose Your Fill Type

In the pane, select one of the fill options: Solid fillGradient fillPicture or texture fill, or Pattern fill.

3

Customize the Background

Based on your selection, choose a color, an image (by clicking Insert under “Picture Source”), or adjust settings like transparency, direction, or pattern.

4

Apply Your Change

The change will apply to the current slide by default. To apply it to all slides in your presentation, click the Apply to All button at the bottom of the Format Background pane.

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