PowerPoint 2019 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\Presentation Designs\ PowerPoint 365 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\Presentation Designs\ PowerPoint comes with 44 different design templates as standard and these can be found in the following locations: You can choose a design template when you create a new presentation or you can apply a design template to an existing presentation. When you apply a design template to a presentation the existing master slides are replaced with the new ones. The overall design of a presentation can be quickly changed by applying a different design template to a presentation. Presentations with multiple masters can cause problems when opened in earlier versions of PowerPoint.Ī Design Template is a type of template that contains pre-formatted master slides that correspond to a particular design. (Edit tab, Multiple masters) - Disables multiple masters. To find out more about how AutoLayouts affect the slide layout, please refer to the Slide Layouts section. Using the AutoLayouts will prevent you from manually repositioning all the text boxes. The advantage of using the AutoLayouts is that it makes it easier to change the layout of a slide at a later date. Controls the look of your printed speaker notes.Īn AutoLayout provides a placeholder for the main text items on a slide (i.e. Controls the look of your printed handouts. A presentation does not have to include a Title Master although most do. This allows you to have a title slide that is slightly different from the other slides. Every presentation must have at least one of these.
Slide Master - Controls the format of your slides. There are four master slides that control the overall look and feel of a presentation: They specify the exact formatting and location of the text placeholders.
The Master slides are the slides that control the default appearance of any new slides. It is easy to override this format if you want to change the appearance of any individual slides. Templates contain predefined slide layouts which are called master slides. Slide orientation, size and printer settingsĪdditonal Slides - Any slide your include in the presentation when you save it as a template will become part of any new presentation (based on that template) but will not be added when you apply the template to an existing presentation. Master Slides with AutoLayouts (every presentation must contain at least one Slide Master) When you create a template (*.pot) file the following information is saved within the file:
PowerPoint comes with 40 templates as standard which look professional and come with their own colour schemes. It is possible to save a regular presentation as a template so it can be used again. Using a template to create new presentations will guarantee a certain amount of consistent formatting.Ī PowerPoint template has the file extension (".pot") A template is a type of presentation that controls the overall look and feel of your slides.