How To Create A Template On Ppt

When you create a presentation and and so relieve it as a PowerPoint template (.potx) file, you tin share it with your colleagues and reuse it again. To create a template, you'll need to modify a slide primary and a set of slide layouts.

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Open up a blank presentation: File > New > Blank Presentation
On the Design tab, select Slide Size > Custom Slide Size and choose the folio orientation and dimensions you want.
On the View tab, in the Master Views group, cull Slide Primary.

The slide primary is the largest slide image at the top of the slide thumbnail list, to the left of your slides. Associated slide layouts are positioned beneath the slide chief.
To make changes to the slide master or slide layouts, on the Slide Master tab, do whatsoever of the following:
- To add a colorful theme with special fonts and effects, click Themes, and choose a theme from the gallery. Use the scrollbar on the right to see more than themes.
- To change the background, click Background Styles, and choose a background.
- To add a placeholder (to hold text, a pic, nautical chart, video, audio, and other objects), in the thumbnail pane, select the slide layout that yous want to concur the placeholder, and do the following:
  - Click Insert Placeholder, and select the type of placeholder you want to add.
  - On the slide chief or slide layout, click and drag to describe the placeholder size.
    
    Tip: To resize a placeholder, drag the corner of i of its borders.
- To move a placeholder around on a slide chief or slide layout, select the edge and then drag information technology into a new position.
- To remove an unwanted placeholder in a slide master or slide layout, select it in the slide thumbnail pane, and so select the border 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, cull Portrait or Mural.

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

When you choose the "template" blazon, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the appropriate folder, the Custom Office Templates folder.
In the Save As dialog box, in the File name box, blazon a file name for your template, or exercise nothing to take the suggested file name.
Select Save.
To utilise your template for a new presentation, click File > New. So click Custom > Custom Role Templates, then double-click the template y'all saved.

Links to more information about PowerPoint templates

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

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To utilize a new or different PowerPoint 2007 template that already exists, meet Apply a template to your presentation.

Best practice for creating a template

When y'all create a template, add any content to the slide master in Slide Main view that y'all want to protect from beingness inverse by users of your template, such as instructional prompt text, logos, header and footer information, bailiwick matter content, a background, formatting, colors, fonts, and effects.

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

Open a blank presentation.
On the Design tab, select Page Setup, and choose the orientation and page dimensions you desire.
On the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, click Slide Primary.
On the Slide Master tab, in the Edit Chief group, click Insert Slide Master.
Notes:
- In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide primary represents the larger slide epitome, and the associated layouts are positioned beneath information technology.
- Many presentations contain more than one slide main, so you may take to scroll to find the i that you want.
To begin customizing the slide master, do ane or more of the following:
- To remove whatever of the built-in slide layouts that accompany the default slide principal, in the slide thumbnail pane, right-click each slide layout that yous don't desire to use, and and 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, 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 and so practice the following:
On the Slide Master tab, in the Main Layout group, click Insert Placeholder, so click Text.
Click a location on the slide master, then elevate to draw the placeholder.

Tip: To resize a placeholder, drag the corner of i 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 comprise content such as pictures, clip fine art, SmartArt graphics, charts, movies, sounds, and tables, on the Slide Chief tab, in the Master Layout grouping, click the type of placeholder that y'all desire to add.
- To utilize a theme (to include color, formatting, effects, in a layout) to your presentation, on the Slide Main tab, in the Edit Theme group, click Themes, and then click a theme.
- To modify the background, on the Slide Main tab, in the Groundwork grouping, click Groundwork Styles, and so click a background.
- To set the folio orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, in the Page Setup group, click Slide Orientation, and and so click either Portrait or Landscape.
- To add together text to appear in the footer at the bottom of all of the slides in your presentation, exercise 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, and so blazon the text that y'all want to appear at the bottom of your slides.
  3. To display the footer content on all slides, click Apply to All.
    
    For more than information most using footers, see Testify footer information on your slides.

Click the Microsoft Office Push , and then click Save Equally.
In the File proper noun box, blazon a file name, or do naught to accept the suggested file name.
In the Save every bit type list, click PowerPoint Template (*.potx).

When you lot choose the "template" type, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the appropriate binder, the \Programme Files\Microsoft Part\Templates\ folder.
Select Relieve.
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

Run into Apply a template to your presentation.

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