Format text box background in slides

Can you add the ability to format the background (color and opacity) of a text box in a slide? I'd love to add text, with a semi-transparent, darker background, so the text is readable, but you can still see any media behind the text box. It would also be great to be able to format padding/margins in a text box.

I currently use a workaround: I created a semi-transparent black png (solid black, opacity about 60%), add a media "box" in a slide, use that image, stretch to fit the container, and position the container behind the text. It works, but it's clunky. Being able to simply format the background in a text box would be much simpler.

Thanks!

You can actually do this. Using the trendy line template, I was able to go under advanced for the template, look at line background and change the line height so it was the right height for the font. In this box you can also set the opacity. It would be easier to just have a setting for a box as this method isn't flawless, but thought this might help you

Thanks so much. I couldn't get this to work (I'm on the newest version of Presenter – 2021.1.6). But I also didn't see the trendy lines template. Maybe you're talking about the songs editor? I'm thinking about slides, not songs. Let me know if I misunderstood your post.

Good clarification. Yes, I'm talking about song slides and not the slides option. I only put liturgy in directly with the slides and instead prefer to do all other slides via a google slides or powerpoint files as the design process is much simpler.

This is an issue for me too, I would love to see this functionality for slides as it would enable us to use motions behind the slide text in a much cleaner way.