How To Instal Powerpoint Templates

When you create a presentation and then save it every bit a PowerPoint template (.potx) file, y'all can share it with your colleagues and reuse it again. To create a template, you lot'll demand to modify a slide master and a set of slide layouts.

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Open up a bare presentation: File > New > Blank Presentation
On the Blueprint tab, select Slide Size > Custom Slide Size and cull the page orientation and dimensions you desire.
On the View tab, in the Main Views group, choose Slide Master.

The slide main is the largest slide paradigm at the top of the slide thumbnail list, to the left of your slides. Associated slide layouts are positioned beneath the slide master.
To make changes to the slide master or slide layouts, on the Slide Master tab, practise whatsoever of the following:
- To add together a colorful theme with special fonts and effects, click Themes, and choose a theme from the gallery. Apply the scrollbar on the right to see more than themes.
- To change the background, click Background Styles, and cull a background.
- To add a placeholder (to hold text, a motion-picture show, nautical chart, video, sound, and other objects), in the thumbnail pane, select the slide layout that you want to hold the placeholder, and do the following:
  - Click Insert Placeholder, and select the type of placeholder y'all want to add together.
  - On the slide master or slide layout, click and elevate to draw the placeholder size.
    
    Tip: To resize a placeholder, drag the corner of one of its borders.
- To move a placeholder around on a slide chief or slide layout, select the edge and then drag it into a new position.
- To remove an unwanted placeholder in a slide master or slide layout, select it in the slide thumbnail pane, and then select the edge of the placeholder on the slide and press Delete.
- To set the page orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, click Slide Size > Custom Slide Size.
  
  Nether Orientation, choose Portrait or Landscape.

On the File tab, click Save Every bit (or Relieve a Re-create, if you are using Microsoft 365).
Nether Salve, click Browse to open up the Save As dialog box.
In the Save Equally dialog box, in the Save as type list, cull PowerPoint Template.

When you choose the "template" type, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the appropriate folder, the Custom Office Templates binder.
In the Save Equally dialog box, in the File name box, type a file name for your template, or practice zilch to accept the suggested file name.
Select Save.
To use your template for a new presentation, click File > New. Then click Custom > Custom Office Templates, and then double-click the template you saved.

Links to more than data nearly PowerPoint templates

Apply a template to your presentation
Understand the departure between PowerPoint templates and themes
What is a slide master?
What is a slide layout?

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To apply a new or different PowerPoint 2007 template that already exists, run across Apply a template to your presentation.

Best do for creating a template

When you create a template, add together whatever content to the slide master in Slide Main view that you want to protect from being changed by users of your template, such every bit instructional prompt text, logos, header and footer information, bailiwick matter content, a groundwork, formatting, colors, fonts, and furnishings.

Users of your template will piece of work in Normal view, guided by the instructional prompts that you lot added. The template users will replace the instructional prompt text and other placeholder content with data that is specific to their own project or presentation.

Open a bare presentation.
On the Design tab, select Page Setup, and cull the orientation and page dimensions you desire.
On the View tab, in the Presentation Views grouping, click Slide Master.
On the Slide Master tab, in the Edit Master group, click Insert Slide Master.
Notes:
- In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master represents the larger slide paradigm, and the associated layouts are positioned beneath it.
- Many presentations contain more than than ane slide chief, so you may have to coil to notice the one that you want.
To begin customizing the slide master, do one or more than of the post-obit:
- To remove whatsoever of the built-in slide layouts that back-trail the default slide principal, in the slide thumbnail pane, right-click each slide layout that y'all don't desire to apply, and then click Delete Layout.
- To remove an unwanted, default placeholder, in the slide thumbnail pane, click the slide layout that contains the placeholder, click the border of the placeholder in the presentation window, and so printing DELETE.
- To add a text placeholder, in the slide thumbnail pane, click the slide layout that you want to contain the placeholder, and then practice the following:
On the Slide Chief tab, in the Primary Layout group, click Insert Placeholder, and so click Text.
Click a location on the slide main, then drag to draw the placeholder.

Tip: To resize a placeholder, drag the corner of one of its borders.
Blazon descriptive text that prompts the users of your template to enter specific information.
- To add together other types of placeholders that contain content such as pictures, clip fine art, SmartArt graphics, charts, movies, sounds, and tables, on the Slide Master tab, in the Master Layout grouping, click the blazon of placeholder that y'all want to add.
- To apply a theme (to include color, formatting, furnishings, in a layout) to your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, in the Edit Theme group, click Themes, and then click a theme.
- To alter the background, on the Slide Master tab, in the Background group, click Background Styles, and then click a groundwork.
- To set the folio orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, in the Folio Setup group, click Slide Orientation, and so click either Portrait or Mural.
- To add text to appear in the footer at the bottom of all of the slides in your presentation, do the following:
  1. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Header & Footer.
  2. In the Header and Footer dialog box, on the Slide tab, select the Footer check box, then type the text that you want to appear at the lesser of your slides.
  3. To brandish the footer content on all slides, click Apply to All.
    
    For more information virtually using footers, see Testify footer information on your slides.

Click the Microsoft Function Button , and then click Save Every bit.
In the File name box, type a file name, or practise cipher to accept the suggested file proper noun.
In the Save as blazon list, click PowerPoint Template (*.potx).

When yous cull the "template" blazon, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the appropriate folder, the \Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\ folder.
Select Save.
If you need assistance applying your new template to a presentation, see Apply a template to a new presentation.

Apply a template to a new presentation

See Apply a template to your presentation.

You lot tin can't create a template in PowerPoint for the web. You have to employ a desktop version of PowerPoint instead.