How to Make Own Template in Powerpoint

Today, we are getting into a powerful PowerPoint characteristic that can save you and your co-workers lots of time. Peradventure you are already using them, but since almost 70% of PowerPoint users do not, and if you are one of them you are about to acquire some of import things. Whether y'all already know nearly templates or you've never heard of them – nosotros are going to teach you everything you need to know and show yous the steps to create your own one.

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What is a template and why should I use it?

A PowerPoint template is a kind of pattern that is predefined for a presentation. It gives a frame for the content and the pattern of your slides.
Elements like groundwork, colours, titles, etc. are set beforehand.
You can save the template separately and reuse it for as many presentations as yous demand.
As all the designs and slides take already been defined, you only need to add your custom text and pictures. That saves a lot of time.
Templates are especially perfect for companies. Make one template that fits the corporate design and any employee can use them from now on, saving time and giving your business concern a consistent and professional appearance.

At present, learn how to create a template by watching our video or reading the steps below.

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The slide master

The Slide Chief is the virtually important tool for creating templates. You can find it by clicking View in the PowerPoint carte (and so clicking on Slide Master).

In the window on the left you will discover a couple of slides that do not (however) have a design. Also, you will see one slide on superlative that is slightly larger and continued to the other slides with dashed lines. That one is your Slide Master, your "main slide". Everything you modify there volition directly touch on all the other slides. You can endeavor information technology out by setting a different background colour for the Slide Chief. The other slides will immediately change colours, besides.

Edit slide masters more precisely

We use the main slide to pre-set all our important elements. In one case we like how it looks, we can go ahead and adjust each individual slide-template. Here'southward a listing of things you tin can/should alter:

Colours: Become to Colours and cull either one of PowerPoint's predefined palettes or create your ain one.
Fonts: Click Fonts and so Customise Fonts and choose styles for your titles and regular text.
Background: Go as crazy-creative or minimalistic every bit you want. Change the background colour, peradventure add some shapes, or await for a nice image online that works behind your text. (To do so, right click on your main slide and go to "Format Background")
Title: Modify the size, style and placement of the title, just by editing it as you would ordinarily do.
Text Style: Practice the same for your regular text boxes. Define what the bullet points should wait like.
Footer: You can switch the footer elements around, supplant them and change them similar any regular text.

Using themes

While themes in PowerPoint are similar to templates, they are not the same thing. A theme in PowerPoint is a predefined selection of colors, fonts, effects and backgrounds. So if you are creating a template for your company nosotros recommend you lot to add a custom theme with the visitor's brand colors and fonts. Now, if yous want to know in more detail what a theme pattern is in PowerPoint and how to create one, yous can read about it in more than detail in our blog postal service, Theme Designs.

Use the correct fonts

A very important point with PowerPoint presentations is to cull the right font, because information technology must be easy to read, but it should as well non be irksome. In our blog post on the best fonts for your presentations, we have picked some skilful fonts for y'all to use.

Advance image blueprint in templates

A cool issue for a template is to crop images to a custom shape then they are not shown every bit boring rectangles. To achieve this, start insert an image placeholder in the slide master (get to Insert placeholder and click on Picture).

Next, you need to insert the desired shape on top of the image. You can either insert your own SVG prototype or use one of the default PowerPoint shapes. Then you have to select both (prototype placeholder and shape) and click Convert to shape under Graphic format.Now, in the Shape Format tab click on "Merge shapes" and and so choose "Intersect". Now your image is automatically cropped to your shape. See our blog post, cropping images and pasting them into shapes, for more than on the topic, as well as step-by-step instructions.

Rename master slides

If you want to give each slide a specific name (it volition be shown in the layout chooser), you lot can hands rename it in the slide chief. To do this, right-click on the slide and select Rename layout. Yous tin then rename the PowerPoint slide.

Individual Templates for each slide layout

Once you are finished with your main slide, you can become ahead and accommodate the other slide layouts. You lot may observe that some look perfect already – you lot can go out them as they are. For those who don't, or if you would just similar some different slide designs in your template, here are some useful tips on what yous can alter:

Background: Yous may not want the aforementioned background on each slide layout. To turn off the groundwork that has been given to the slide (by setting it in the main slide), just tick off the box Hide background graphics in the superlative Slide Master carte du jour. You are then free to design the background from scratch.
Footers: On some slides you might not want the footer to show. Disable the Footers checkbox in the chore line to go far disappear.
Title: The same thing works with the title (the checkbox is right there with the Footers)
Placeholder: Click on Insert Placeholder. You lot tin can choose from a variety of placeholders. They can be very helpful because they predefine where a certain element (eastward.g. image, video,...) should exist placed in the presentation.
Other elements: Of form, you tin can move, remove and add any other chemical element or object you might need.

TIP: You might need another predefined layout (e.m. for slides that give an overview, for "Contact us" slides, …) You can easily create a template for that as well by right clicking in the greyness box on the left with all your layouts and so clicking Insert Layout. Past right clicking on that new layout you can go to Rename Layout and call information technology some name that makes sense. You can treat it like the rest of the layouts and simply adjust it to your needs.

Salve your masterpiece and use it for a presentation

When you are satisfied with the look of all your layouts, you can salvage the template by clicking File and then Save Equally. You can at present cull any binder or employ the folder provided by PowerPoint and so save it every bit a PowerPoint template (*.potx). Close and open up PowerPoint once more, click on New in the left orangish sidebar and then change from Office to Personal or Custom. Your template should now exist visible here. Click on information technology and you can create a new presentation with your predefined layouts.

You can also ready your template equally the default option. To do this, you lot need to click on the pin at the bottom right of the template and pivot it to your list.

If for some reason your template was not shown in the start menu OR if y'all have already created a template-less presentation that should get the template, get to Design at the tiptop of the open presentation, click on the small arrow by the designs and then select Search for designs. There, click on your created template (in the folder where you saved it) and open it. The presentation should now accept on your template design.