PowerPoint Templates PDF

A template is a file that includes formatting elements like a background, a theme with a color scheme, font selections for titles and text boxes, and slide layouts that position content placeholders. 1 When...

A template is a file that includes formatting elements like a background, a theme with a color scheme, font selections for titles and text boxes, and slide layouts that position content placeholders. 1 When you create a presentation, you choose a template with a theme and variant that suits your project. To begin a presentation using a template start PowerPoint, click one of the suggested search terms or click in the search box, and type the text for which you would like to search. Press Enter. Click a template or theme to preview it in a new window. Choosing a Template continues on next slide. 2 You can filter your results further by using one of the filter categories on the right side of the screen. Depending on your search criteria, you may also see non-PowerPoint templates in your search results. 3 You can reuse slides from an existing PowerPoint presentation when creating a new presentation. To import existing slides without having to open the other file, click the New Slide arrow in the Slides group on the Home tab. Click Reuse Slides. Click Browse, and then navigate to the folder containing the presentation that has the slide or slides that you want to use. Click Open. Click a slide to add it to the presentation or right-click any slide and Insert All Slides to add all of the slides to the presentation. By default when you insert a slide into the presentation, it take on the formatting of the open presentation. If the new slides do not take the formatting of the open presentation, select the imported text in Outline view and click Clear all Formatting in the Font group of the Home tab. It will format the slides using the active theme. If you wish to retain the formatting of the original presentation, click the Keep source formatting check box at the bottom of the Reuse Slides pane. 4 Content organization is an effective design element. Content divided into sections can help you group slides meaningfully. When you create a section, it is given the name Untitled Section. You will want to change the section name to give it a meaningful name. To create a section, select the first slide of the new section. Click Section in the Slides group on the Home tab. Click Add Section. Right-click Untitled Section and select Renamed Section. Type a new name for the section. 5 Choose design elements appropriate for the audience. 6 Keep the design neat and clean. 7 Create a focal point that leads the viewer’s eyes to the critical information on the slide. 8 Use unified design elements for a professional look. 9 Choose fonts appropriate for the output of your presentation. 10 Do not underline text. Avoid using all capital letters. Use italics and bold sparingly. Avoid creating lines of text that leave a single word hanging on a line of its own. Use just one space after punctuation in text blocks. 11 Make text readable. 12 Themes can be modified once they have been applied. You can change variants, colors, fonts, and effects used in the theme. Each of the options are on the Design tab and each has its own gallery. Each PowerPoint theme has a Colors gallery that provides a set of colors, a Fonts gallery that pairs a title font and a body font, an Effects gallery that displays a full range of special effects, and a Background gallery that contains backgrounds consistent with the selected theme colors. To access the galleries, click the Design tab, in the Variants group, click More, and then choose the gallery you want to change. 13 You can further modify and customize your presentation through the slide master. Masters control the layouts, background designs, and color combinations for handouts, notes pages, and slides, giving the presentation a consistent appearance. The slide master is the top slide in a hierarchy of slides based on the master. As you modify the slide master, elements in the slide layouts related to it are also modified to maintain consistency. To modify a slide master or slide layout based on a slide master, click the View tab. Click Slide Master in the Master Views group. Click the slide master at the top of the list or click one of the associated layouts. Make modifications. Click Close Master View in the Close group of the Slide Master tab. 14