Creating a powerpoint template 2011

Create a presentation Open PowerPoint. In the left pane, select New. Select an option: To create a presentation from scratch, select Blank Presentation. To use a prepared design, select one of the templates. Add a slide In the thumbnails on the left pane, select the slide you want your new slide to follow. Add and format text Place the cursor inside a text box, and then type something. Add a picture, shape, and more Go to the Insert tab.

To add a picture: In the Images section, select Pictures. In the Insert Picture From menu, select the source you want. Optional In the Where box, choose a location where the template will be saved.

Next to File Format , click Microsoft Word template. To change where Word automatically saves your templates, on the Word menu, click Preferences , and then under Personal Settings , click File Locations. Under File Locations , select User templates from the list, and then click Modify. Type the new folder and path you want to use, and Word will save any new templates in that folder. You can customize an existing template to make it even more useful. Add static information to the existing template, and then save the file again as a template.

Click a template that is similar to the one you want to create, and then click Create. Note: If you can't find a template, you can search for it based on keywords in the Search All Templates box. Add, delete, or change any text, graphics, or formatting, and make any other changes that you want to appear in all new documents that you base on the template.

To start a new document based on your template, on the File menu, click New from Template , and then select the template you want to use. Open a blank presentation, and then on the View tab, click Slide Master. The slide master is the largest slide image at the top of the slide thumbnail list.

Associated layouts are positioned beneath it. To make changes to the slide master or layouts, on the Slide Master tab, do any of these:. To add a colorful theme with special fonts, and effects, click Themes , and pick a theme. To add a placeholder for text, picture, chart, and other objects, in the thumbnail pane, click the slide layout that you want to hold the placeholder. From Insert Placeholder , pick the type of placeholder you want to add, and drag to draw the placeholder size.

Add, delete, or change any text, graphics, or formatting, and make any other changes that you want to appear in all new presentations that you base on the template. To start a new presentation based on a template, on the File menu, click New from Template , and then select the template you want to use.

Next to File Format , click Excel Template. Add, delete, or change any content, graphics, or formatting, and make any other changes that you want to appear in all new workbooks that you base on the template. To start a new workbook based on a template, on the File menu, click New from Template , and then select the template you want to use.

One more thing you might notice is that the guides are not visible on the Title slide. Unfortunately, the guides you set on the Parent Slide will likely not match the content you have on the Title slide and any Child Slide whose content deviates from it. The next step is to edit the most commonly used PowerPoint slide in any presentation, the Title and Content layout. However, in this example, we are going to add one more design element to the layout, which is a straight line.

To do that simply:. That means that the Parent Slide has to be relatively bare-bones. You can always add extra elements in the Child Slides. From here onward, you will need to format each of the Child Slides to match the content that goes in it. You will want to follow the same procedure as in Step 2 above, keeping in mind what each Child Slide is designed for and how the content should be placed.

Some layouts will require more custom formatting and design elements. For example, for the Divider slide the first slide in the examples below, I have added a rectangle that matches the design elements on the Title slide layout. In addition to the default Child Slides that PowerPoint gives you, you have the option to create your own. If you make the slide under 10 times, it may not be worth clogging up your Slide Master area.

But if you use it frequently, creating a layout template for that type of slide will save you countless hours. Keep in mind that the blank layout and other blank variations can always be used to create more one-off slides. Creating a Custom Agenda Slide. Note: You can change the shape of a placeholder, along with all other properties of a typical shape.

That means that you can also add fill, outline, effects, etc. Note: You can perform these steps for all custom Child Slides. You can also create custom layouts for a lot of slides such as sport slides, case studies, contact us, etc. There are also other slides in the template such as the content slide with subtitles, a blank slide with a title. You can format them per your requirements. They are not very different from one another, however, the only different ones are the title slide and the divider slide.

The first thing is to set the animations and transitions for your slides. For all placeholders that you want to automatically animate in your template, simply select it and apply your animation. These masters determine the look and feel of your PowerPoint handouts when you print them. To learn how to format these elements in regards to printing multiple slides per page in PowerPoint, read our guide here.

It is highly recommended that you test your template before you distribute it. That way you catch any errors before your users do. You now have the foundational skills to start creating your own PowerPoint templates and use them to build beautiful and tailor-made PowerPoint presentations in the future.

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Part 1. Creating your PowerPoint template slide backgrounds. Use the different paste special options. Add a pattern background to your slide. Crop images to fit your entire slide background.

Add a radial gradient fill to a shape with transparency. Add new guides and move them around on your Slide Master. And more! Set the colors for your PowerPoint template.

To choose a color scheme for your PowerPoint template, simply:. Set the fonts for your template. To navigate to your PowerPoint Slide Master, simply:.

To choose a new font combination for your PowerPoint template, simply: Navigate to the Design tab. Open the More variants options. Select the Fonts options. Click the font combination you want to use. Navigate to the Slide Master View. To choose a new font combination for your PowerPoint template, simply: Navigate to the View tab. Select the Slide Master command in your ribbon. Customize your Parent Slide background. Crop to aspect ratio. To do that, simply: Select the background image you have pasted on the slide Navigate to the Format tab.

Open the Crop dropdown. Open the Aspect Ratio options. Choose your aspect ratio. In the picture above I chose for widescreen to match my slide dimensions another common aspect ratio is for printed slides. Adjust your photo within the frame. Hit the Crop command again or hit Esc on your keyboard. This will make resizing the image to fit your template much easier without having to worry about warping the image. Fill out your slide background.

To make the image fit your entire slide space, there are two options. You can alternatively resize your image as such:. Create a semi-transparent gradient layer. Step 1: Insert and format a rectangle. Draw in the rectangle so that it covers your entire background image for this to work, your rectangle needs to be the same exact size as the image you want to make transparent.

Remove its outline by going to the Shape Outline dropdown and selecting No Outline. Step 2: Add a gradient fill. With the rectangle still selected, make the following adjustments: Select your Rectangle and click Format Shape to open the Format Shape dialog box. Opening the Format Shape dialog box gives you a wide variety of formatting options you can use to format your shape backgrounds for your template.

Select the Gradient fill. To change the background, click Background Styles , and choose a background. To add a placeholder to hold text, a picture, 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 you want to add.

On the slide master or slide layout, click and drag to draw the placeholder size. Select Save. New, click Custom and then Custom Office Templates. To begin creating the template that you'll use in your presentation, do the following: Open a blank presentation. Slide master 2. Associated layouts To customize the slide master and associated layouts, do one or more of the following: To remove an unwanted, default placeholder from a layout , in the slide thumbnail pane, click the slide layout that contains the placeholder , click the border of the placeholder in the presentation window, and then press DELETE.

To add a text placeholder , in the slide thumbnail pane, click the slide layout that you want to contain the placeholder, and then do the following: On the Slide Master tab, in the Master Layout group, click Insert Placeholder , and then click Text. Click a location on the slide master, and then drag to draw the placeholder. Type descriptive text that prompts the users of your template to enter specific information.

To add character by using color and a background, do one of the following: To apply a theme to include color, formatting, effects, in a layout to your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, in the Edit Theme group, click Themes , and then select a theme. Open a blank presentation. Notes: In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master represents the larger slide image, and the associated layouts are positioned beneath it.

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