Whenever you add a new AutoShape to a PowerPoint slide, it is filled with a solid color by default. Most of the time, you may leave that unaltered, but it’s easy to change that color or to even add another fill type altogether, such as a gradient, pattern, texture, or picture. In this tutorial, we’ll show how you can change the default fill color to a color of your choice.
Add solid color fills to shapes in PowerPoint 2003 and 2002 for Windows.

