How to Create a Powerpoint 2007 Template
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 can help you create professional-looking slide presentations for live meetings, CDs, kiosks and the Web. If you find yourself needing to create the same style of presentation over and over, a template can save you time. With a PowerPoint template, you set up the presentation design---including fonts, colors and graphics---just once, and then you're able to re-use that saved design the next time you need presentations.
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Instructions
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Open PowerPoint to a new blank presentation file.
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Click the View Tab, and then click the Slide Master button in the Presentation Views panel in the upper left.
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Click the Themes drop-down menu in the Edit Theme panel to apply a design scheme to the template. As you drag your mouse over the theme selections, you'll see how that theme will look on the slide master before you choose it. Click the theme you want for your template.
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Click the Font drop-down menu in the Edit Theme panel to change the default font for new slides created from this template. Like the themes, as you drag your mouse down the font selections, you'll see it update the slide master as an example. Click a font to change the typeface for the template.
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Click the Colors drop-down menu in the Edit Theme panel if you want to change the color palette for the theme you've chosen. Again, dragging your mouse cursor over the selections gives you a preview of what the change will do to your slide master before you choose it.
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Click the Insert tab to add graphics that will be saved as part of the template. For example, if you have a company logo you would like to appear on the title slide of any presentation created with this template, you can do that here.
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Click the Picture button in the Illustrations panel to locate a graphic file on your hard drive to add to the slide. Click the Clipart button to choose a graphic file from Microsoft's gallery that comes with the PowerPoint software. Click Shapes, SmartArt or Chart to build your own graphic with Microsoft drawing tools.
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Click the Office menu, and then Save As. Choose "PowerPoint Template" from the drop-down menu next to "Save as type" and enter a file name for your template. Click the "Save" button and PowerPoint will save a .POT file in the Templates folder for the application.
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Click the Office menu, and then Close to exit the template file.
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Click the Office menu, New, then "My Templates" to start a new presentation using the template you just created.
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Tips & Warnings
When you are working in the Slide Master View, thumbnails of the different types of default slide layouts appear down the left side of the screen. You can customize each of those individually by clicking on it and making changes, or click the Insert Layout and Insert Placeholder buttons to add a new slide with your own customized layout.
