Save Time with Templates

If you want, you can start from scratch with a blank presentation. But the advantage of using templates, besides saving time, is that the way in which fonts, colors, and layout work together has been carefully considered for you. Templates are professionally designed presentations that you can use as the basis for your own presentations. PowerPoint uses two kinds: content templates and presentation designs.

Content templates are like cookie-cutter presentations that give you a head start with content and organization, as well as with formatting and design.

Presentation designs are templates that include master elements and formatting, but no slides. You can apply presentation designs to any presentation without changing the existing content of slides or notes. Only the content and appearance of the masters are changed, in turn determining the default appearance of the rest of the presentation.

No color?   If you are limited to black-and-white output, each of the PowerPoint presentation designs can be optimized for black-and-white printing. For more information, see Quickly Prepare a Black-and-White Presentation. Save your presentation as a template   Click Save (File menu), and then select Presentation Templates from the Save as type list. To save a template as a presentation design, delete all the slides in slide sorter view, so that only the content and design of the masters remain. Click Save As (File menu), and then select Presentation Templates from the Save as type list.

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