Whenever a new shape is inserted on a slide in PowerPoint 2010, it is filled with a solid color by default (or something else depending on the Theme your presentation is based on). Other than a solid fill type, PowerPoint 2010 provides several more options that let you fill a shape with a picture, a gradient, or a texture — and I shall explore these other fill options in subsequent tutorials. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can work with solid color fills.
Learn how to add solid fill to a selected shape in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

