Customize the Appearance of Your Presentation

Topic at a glance

You want your presentation to have a distinctive appearance that works well for the type of material you need to present and communicates your points to your audience. Perhaps you want to create a presentation that you can use repeatedly as the basis for other presentations with a common theme. PowerPoint content templates, presentation designs, and masters can help you create an effective presentation that you can use once or many times.

  Content templates are predesigned presentations that include formatted masters plus slides that contain formatting, text, and graphics that you can use as a starting point for your own content.

  Presentation designs are sets of predesigned master formats and graphics that you can apply to any presentation. They change the appearance, but not the content, of your slides and notes.

  Masters are special views in which you can add repeated elements and define the general appearance of all slides and pages at once. Use masters when you want your presentation to have a consistent look.