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Creating a Custom PowerPoint Template
This corner of the newsletter is reserved
for readers to share practical tips, techniques and shortcuts that can
make a difference in our work. Please share your technical prowess with
us and send your tips to Gayle Fink (gfink@umd.edu).
The idea for this month's Tech Tip
came from Michelle Appel, University of Maryland, College Park (mappel@umd.edu). She suggested that I remind readers
that we are not bound by the standard Microsoft PowerPoint templates!
For example, I have built one for presentations for the USM Board of
Regents that is in the System colors and contains the System seal.
I also have another template that I use when doing professional development
presentations that usually includes the logo from the sponsoring organization.
Take a few moments and let the creative juices flow!
NOTE: This is from Microsoft
Office Online Help.
PowerPoint comes with a gallery of
design templates to choose from, but you can also create a template
of your own and add it to the Slide Design task pane. Starting
from a blank design, you can apply such elements as a background and
color scheme, font style, layout (layout: The arrangement of elements,
such as title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, AutoShapes,
and movies, on a slide.), and art.
- On the Standard toolbar,
click New
 .
If this or any other toolbar mentioned
later in this procedure isn't visible, on the View menu, point
to Toolbars, and then click the toolbar that you want to display.
- Switch to master view by
pointing to Master on the View menu, and then clicking
Slide Master.
- Make the changes that you
want to the slide master (slide master: The slide that stores information
about the design template applied, including font styles, placeholder
sizes and positions, background design, and color schemes.):
- To change the background,
on the Format menu, click Background, make selections
in the dialog box, and then click Apply. If you have inserted
a title master and want the changes to apply to it, too, click Apply
to All.
- To work with color schemes,
on the Format menu, click Slide Design, and then, in the
Slide Design task pane, click Color Schemes. The color scheme
that is currently applied will be selected. Click any other scheme to
apply it.
- To change fonts or other
font options, click the text or the placeholder containing the text
(such as footers). On the Format
menu, click Font, and then make your selections in the Font
dialog box.
- To insert a picture or to
add a shape or text box, use the buttons on the Drawing toolbar.
- To move a placeholder, click
it to select it, and then point to the placeholder border. When the
pointer becomes a four-headed arrow, drag the placeholder to a new location.
- To resize a placeholder,
click it to select it, and then point to a sizing handle. When the pointer
becomes a double-headed arrow, drag the sizing handle.
- If you want additional slides
to be part of this template, click the Normal View button
in the lower-left of the window, and then add the slides and any text
that you want on them.
- On the File menu,
click Save As.
- In the File name
box, type a name for your template, and then, in the Save as type
box, click Design Template.
- Click Save.
The template is saved to the Templates
folder. (This is the folder that PowerPoint uses by default when you
select Design Template as the file type in the Save As
dialog box.)
After you exit and restart PowerPoint,
the template is available in the Slide Design task pane, in alphabetical
order by file name, under Available For Use. Also, after you
apply the template once, save your presentation, and restart PowerPoint,
the template appears in the New Presentation task pane (File
menu, New) under Recently used templates.
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