PowerPoint 2011 essentially provides five fill options: solid, picture, gradient, texture and slide background fill. Of course there’s a sixth option called “No fill”. We have already explored the solid fill option. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about working with gradient fills. Gradient fills are typically blended fills between two or more colors that graduate from one color to another.
Learn how to add gradient fills to selected shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

