Share ThisHow to Apply a PowerPoint 2007 Template to an Existing Presentation
If you created a PowerPoint 2007 blank presentation or applied a PowerPoint template and don’t like the results, it’s easy to apply a different PowerPoint template.
1 Select the last slide in your presentation.Starting at the end makes sure the template sticks to the whole presentation. |
2 Open the New Slide drop-down list.On the Home tab, open the drop-down menu on the New Slide button and choose Reuse Slides. The Reuse Slides task pane appears. |
3 Find the presentation to use.Click the Browse button and choose Browse File on the drop-down list. |
4 Open the presentation to use.Locate and select the presentation with the template you want; then click the Open button. Slides from the presentation appear in the Reuse Slides task pane. |
5 Choose to keep the source formatting.Click the Keep Source Formatting check box at the bottom of the Reuse Slides task pane. |
6 Insert all the slides from the presentation.Right-click a slide in the task pane and choose Insert All Slides on the shortcut menu. All slides from the other presentation arrive in your presentation with their formatting intact. |
7 Change the view.Click the View tab. |
8 Open the Master Slide view.Click the Slide Master button. |
9 Delete the Slide Master.Scroll to the top of the Slides pane, right-click the first slide (the Slide Master), and choose Delete Master on the shortcut menu. All the slides take on the formatting of the new Slide Master. |
10 Close the Slide Master view.Click the Close Master View button on the Slide Master tab. You have to delete the slides that arrived along with the template, but that’s a small price to pay for being able to commandeer an entirely new template |
