How To Create A Design Template Powerpoint

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

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Open a bare presentation: File > New > Blank Presentation
On the Design tab, select Slide Size > Custom Slide Size and choose the page orientation and dimensions y'all want.
On the View tab, in the Master Views group, choose Slide Master.

The slide principal is the largest slide image at the superlative of the slide thumbnail list, to the left of your slides. Associated slide layouts are positioned below the slide master.
To make changes to the slide chief or slide layouts, on the Slide Master tab, do any of the following:
- To add a colorful theme with special fonts and effects, click Themes, and choose a theme from the gallery. Employ the scrollbar on the correct to see more themes.
- To alter the background, click Background Styles, and choose a groundwork.
- To add together a placeholder (to hold text, a moving 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 yous desire to add.
  - On the slide master or slide layout, click and elevate to depict the placeholder size.
    
    Tip: To resize a placeholder, drag the corner of one of its borders.
- To move a placeholder effectually on a slide primary 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, so select the edge of the placeholder on the slide and press Delete.
- To fix the page orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, click Slide Size > Custom Slide Size.
  
  Under Orientation, choose Portrait or Mural.

On the File tab, click Save As (or Salvage a Copy, if you are using Microsoft 365).
Under Relieve, click Browse to open the Relieve As dialog box.
In the Salve As dialog box, in the Save as blazon listing, choose PowerPoint Template.

When you cull the "template" type, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the advisable folder, the Custom Part Templates folder.
In the Salvage Equally dialog box, in the File proper name box, blazon a file name for your template, or practice nothing to accept the suggested file name.
Select Save.
To use your template for a new presentation, click File > New. Then click Custom > Custom Part Templates, and then double-click the template you saved.

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On the File tab, click Relieve Every bit, in the File name box give your template a name, so in the Save every bit type box, select PowerPoint Template (*.potx).

Save your presentation as a .potx file

Click a heading beneath to open the section and meet the instructions:

To brainstorm creating the template that you'll use in your presentation, practice the following:

Open a blank presentation.
On the Design tab, select Folio Setup, and choose the orientation and page dimensions y'all desire.
On the View tab, in the Master Views grouping, click Slide Master.

Tip: In Slide Primary view, in the slide thumbnail pane, the slide chief represents the larger slide prototype, and the associated layouts are smaller, positioned beneath it.

i. Slide chief

2. Associated layouts
To customize the slide master and associated layouts, do ane 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 y'all want to contain the placeholder, and then do the following:
  1. On the Slide Master tab, in the Master Layout group, click Insert Placeholder, so click Text.
  2. Click a location on the slide master, and then elevate to draw the placeholder.
    
    Tip: To resize a placeholder, elevate the corner of one of its borders.
  3. Type descriptive text that prompts the users of your template to enter specific information.
- To add other types of placeholders that contain content such as pictures, clip art, screen shots, SmartArt graphics, charts, movies, sounds, and tables, on the Slide Principal tab, in the Master Layout grouping, click Insert Placeholder, and and so click the type of placeholder that you want to add together.
- To add character by using colour and a background, do one of the following:
  1. 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 so select a theme.
  2. To modify the background, on the Slide Primary tab, in the Background group, click Background Styles, and and then select a background.

To save your template, click the File tab, and and so click Save As.
In the File name box, type a file proper noun, or do nothing to accept the suggested file name.
In the Save as type list, click PowerPoint Template (.potx).

When you cull the "template" blazon, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the advisable folder, the \Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\ folder.
Select Save.
To use your template for a new presentation, click File > New. And so click My templates. In the New Presentation dialog box, select the template you saved, and click OK.

If you need assistance applying your new template to a presentation, come across Employ a template to your presentation.

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Best practice for creating a template

When you create a template, add together any content to the slide principal in Slide Principal view that you want to protect from being changed by users of your template, such as instructional prompt text, logos, header and footer information, subject matter content, a background, formatting, colors, fonts, and furnishings.

Users of your template will work in Normal view, guided past the instructional prompts that y'all added. The template users will replace the instructional prompt text and other placeholder content with data that is specific to their ain project or presentation.

Open a blank presentation.
On the Design tab, select Folio Setup, and cull the orientation and page dimensions you desire.
On the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, click Slide Master.
On the Slide Principal 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 below it.
- Many presentations contain more than than one slide main, so y'all may accept to curlicue to find the one that you desire.
To begin customizing the slide primary, do one or more of the following:
- To remove whatever of the built-in slide layouts that accompany the default slide master, in the slide thumbnail pane, correct-click each slide layout that you don't want to use, so 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, 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 so do the post-obit:
On the Slide Master tab, in the Master Layout group, click Insert Placeholder, and and then click Text.
Click a location on the slide master, and then drag to draw the placeholder.

Tip: To resize a placeholder, drag the corner of one of its borders.
Type 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 art, SmartArt graphics, charts, movies, sounds, and tables, on the Slide Master tab, in the Master Layout grouping, click the type of placeholder that yous want to add together.
- 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 click a theme.
- To change the background, on the Slide Principal tab, in the Background group, click Background Styles, and and so click a groundwork.
- To ready the page orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, on the Slide Chief tab, in the Page Setup group, click Slide Orientation, and then click either Portrait or Mural.
- To add together text to appear in the footer at the lesser of all of the slides in your presentation, practice the post-obit:
  1. On the Insert tab, in the Text grouping, click Header & Footer.
  2. In the Header and Footer dialog box, on the Slide tab, select the Footer check box, so type the text that you lot want to appear at the bottom of your slides.
  3. To display the footer content on all slides, click Apply to All.
    
    For more information about using footers, come across Show footer data on your slides.

Click the Microsoft Office Button , and and then click Save Every bit.
In the File name box, type a file name, or do nothing to accept the suggested file name.
In the Save as type list, click PowerPoint Template (*.potx).

When you choose the "template" type, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the appropriate folder, the \Plan Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\ folder.
Select Salvage.
If you need assistance applying your new template to a presentation, come across Utilise a template to a new presentation.