A sample PowerPoint title page, with a camera-themed background, a title, a subtitle, and the presenter's name. A sample PowerPoint title page containing a QR code and a question.

Launch Microsoft PowerPoint, and open the PPTX file for which you want to use a GIF as the background. Select the appropriate slide. Click the "Design" tab, and locate the "Background" section.

The formatting applied by default to the text on a PowerPoint slide is the formatting described on the PowerPoint slide master. You can edit the Slide master to set the default appearance anyway you ...