How To Create Poweropint Template

When you create a presentation then relieve information technology as a PowerPoint template (.potx) file, you 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 a blank presentation: File > New > Blank Presentation
On the Design tab, select Slide Size > Custom Slide Size and cull the page orientation and dimensions you lot want.
On the View tab, in the Master Views group, choose Slide Master.

The slide master is the largest slide paradigm at the top 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 master or slide layouts, on the Slide Principal 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. Use the scrollbar on the right to see more themes.
- To change the groundwork, click Background Styles, and choose a groundwork.
- To add a placeholder (to hold text, a moving-picture show, chart, video, sound, and other objects), in the thumbnail pane, select the slide layout that y'all want to hold the placeholder, and do the following:
  - Click Insert Placeholder, and select the type of placeholder y'all desire to add.
  - On the slide master or slide layout, click and drag to draw the placeholder size.
    
    Tip: To resize a placeholder, drag the corner of one of its borders.
- To motion a placeholder effectually on a slide primary or slide layout, select the edge and and then elevate 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 edge of the placeholder on the slide and printing Delete.
- To prepare the page orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, click Slide Size > Custom Slide Size.
  
  Under Orientation, choose Portrait or Landscape.

On the File tab, click Save As (or Salve a Copy, if yous are using Microsoft 365).
Under Save, click Scan to open up the Save As dialog box.
In the Save Every bit dialog box, in the Save every bit type list, choose PowerPoint Template.

When yous cull the "template" type, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the appropriate binder, the Custom Part Templates folder.
In the Save As dialog box, in the File name box, type a file name for your template, or do cypher to take the suggested file proper noun.
Select Save.
To use your template for a new presentation, click File > New. And then click Custom > Custom Part Templates, and then double-click the template you saved.

Links to more than information most PowerPoint templates

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

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To apply a new or dissimilar PowerPoint 2007 template that already exists, see Apply a template to your presentation.

Best practice for creating a template

When you create a template, add together any content to the slide master in Slide Main view that you lot desire to protect from existence inverse by users of your template, such as instructional prompt text, logos, header and footer information, subject matter content, a background, formatting, colors, fonts, and effects.

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

Open up a blank presentation.
On the Design tab, select Page Setup, and choose the orientation and folio dimensions y'all want.
On the View tab, in the Presentation Views grouping, click Slide Master.
On the Slide Main tab, in the Edit Principal grouping, click Insert Slide Primary.
Notes:
- In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master represents the larger slide image, and the associated layouts are positioned beneath it.
- Many presentations contain more than 1 slide master, so you may accept to scroll to find the one that you want.
To begin customizing the slide chief, practice i or more than of the following:
- To remove any of the built-in slide layouts that back-trail the default slide main, in the slide thumbnail pane, right-click each slide layout that you don't want 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 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 practise the following:
On the Slide Principal tab, in the Master Layout grouping, click Insert Placeholder, and then click Text.
Click a location on the slide master, and and so elevate to describe the placeholder.

Tip: To resize a placeholder, elevate 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, prune art, SmartArt graphics, charts, movies, sounds, and tables, on the Slide Principal tab, in the Master Layout group, click the type of placeholder that y'all want to add.
- 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 Main tab, in the Groundwork group, click Background Styles, and so click a groundwork.
- To set the folio orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, in the Page Setup grouping, click Slide Orientation, and then click either Portrait or Mural.
- To add together text to appear in the footer at the bottom of all of the slides in your presentation, do the post-obit:
  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 then type the text that you want to appear at the lesser of your slides.
  3. To display the footer content on all slides, click Utilise to All.
    
    For more information about using footers, see Show footer information on your slides.

Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Save Equally.
In the File proper noun box, blazon a file proper noun, or do nothing to accept the suggested file proper noun.
In the Save as type listing, click PowerPoint Template (*.potx).

When you cull the "template" type, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the appropriate folder, the \Program Files\Microsoft Role\Templates\ folder.
Select Relieve.
If y'all need help applying your new template to a presentation, see Employ a template to a new presentation.

Utilize a template to a new presentation

See Utilise a template to your presentation.

You can't create a template in PowerPoint for the web. Yous have to use a desktop version of PowerPoint instead.