How to Create and Apply PowerPoint Templates

Creating a PowerPoint template allows you to control and change theme colors and fonts, effects, backgrounds, and specific layout elements in one place instead of on each individual slide. You don't need to download templates; they're built into PowerPoint. This video provides tips for using them.

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Posted by esimo JANUARY 27, 2009 | 11:46AM
so brief, yet so helpful. i learned more in 5 minutes than in 20 trying to read how to do this. thanks.

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Posted by msspock MARCH 11, 2009 | 00:14PM
This was brief and very informative. A lot of info in a short time.

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Posted by Alan MAY 07, 2009 | 00:07AM
I cannot agree more with the above comments. Effective and efficient way of learning.

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Posted by Jim NOVEMBER 14, 2009 | 04:36PM
Leave it to microsoft to take something that used to be simple and make it rediculously confusing. This helped a bit, but the design elements I want as a theme won't save as a theme, only as a template. I also couldn't create new slides using cntr-n as a shortcut, it dis something else. All I want to do is create a decent looking presentation, I'm not a graphic designer. Don't want to be either. I will no doubt achieve this, but I'm sure it will be a result of using templates and themes in all the wrong ways.

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