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.
In the pane, select one of the fill options: Solid fill, Gradient fill, Picture or texture fill, or Pattern fill.
Based on your selection, choose a color, an image (by clicking Insert under “Picture Source”), or adjust settings like transparency, direction, or pattern.
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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ChatGPT cannot directly convert a Word file or a PDF to PowerPoint presentation slides. You cannot upload a Word file and write a prompt to turn the document into PPT slides. 3rd party tools like the Twistly add-in for PowerPoint integrate the processing power of ChatGPT for PowerPoint.
Twistly has the capability of converting any document to professional PPT slides using AI. Instead of using any online converter, try Twistly for converting Word to PPT, without any file exports.
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