PowerPoint 2007 Templates

Using Templates and Themes

What is a Template?

A Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 template is a pattern or blueprint of a slide or group of slides that you save as a .potx file. Templates can containlayouts,theme colors, theme fonts,theme effects, background styles, and even content.

You can create your own custom templates and store them, reuse them, and share them with others. You can also find hundreds of different types of free templates on Office Onlineand on other partner Web sites that you can apply to your presentation.

Apply a Template

  1. Click theMicrosoft Office Button, and then clickNew.
  2. In the Templates frame on the left side of the screen, choose a category and then template.
  3. Click the Download button on the bottom right of the window to install and open the template.

Apply a Theme

In an existing or blank presentation, click the “Design” tab and choose the theme you would like to apply.

Apply a Theme Element

On the “Design” tab, click the Colors, Fonts, or Effects button in the Edit Themes frame to change a theme element in the current presentation (note that all slides will be updated with the new theme element, not just the single slide you have selected).

Making Templates and Themes

Theme Elements

Theme elements consist of colors, fonts and effects.

Color Scheme

These are the elements that can have their color changed. This set of colors comprises the Theme Colors.

Font Styles

These are Built-In font sets. The top row is the “name” of the set, the second row is the font of the Titles on all slides and the third row is the font of the body text on all slides.

Effects

These are Built-In effects for AutoShapes and Smart Art.

PowerPoint 2007 Template

What is a Template?

1.  Background styles

2.  Design Theme (colors, fonts, effects)

3.  Content

4.  Layouts

Slide Master

A slide master is the top slide in a hierarchy of slides that stores information about the theme and slide layouts of a presentation, including the background, color, fonts, effects, placeholder sizes, and positioning.

Every presentation contains at least one slide master. The key benefit to using slide masters is that you can make universal style changes to every slide in your presentation, including ones added later to the presentation. When you use a slide master, you save time because you don't have to type the same information on more than one slide. The slide master especially comes in handy when you have extremely long presentations with lots of slides.

Because slide masters affect the look of your entire presentation, when you create and edit a slide master or corresponding layouts, you work in Slide Master view.

Slide Master Hierarchy

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Slide Master

Title Slide

Title and Content

Secondary Heading

Two Content

Comparison

Title Only

Blank

Content with Caption

Picture with Caption

Title and Vertical Text

Vertical Title and Text

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If you add something to the “Slide Master” it will replicate to ALL of the slides in your presentation. Existing slides and any new slides you add. If you place something on a specific “Slide Layout” it will appear on any existing slides that use that layout and any new slides that have that layout.

Images

Modify any placeholders that are in the way or overlap images.

Shapes
Design Theme Elements

To add a new color theme, click Colors on the Edit Theme frame.

At the bottom of the list, click the Create New Theme Colors link.

These are the elements whose color can be changed and that comprise a set of Theme Colors.

Name your new theme at the bottom of the window.

Click on each theme color to choose new colors.

In the "More Colors…" window, click on the “Custom” tab and then type in the RGB value of the color you wish to use.

At the end of this document is a list of official UF colors that can be input here.

Here is what changing color themes looks like:

Reuse and Apply a Template

  1. Click theMicrosoft Office Button, and then clickNew.
  2. In theNew Presentationdialog box, underTemplates, do one of the following:

·  To apply a template that you've recently used, clickBlank and recent, click the template that you want, and then clickCreate.

·  To apply a template that you've installed to your local hard drive, clickInstalled Templates, and then clickCreate.

·  To create (and apply) a new template based on another template that installed on your local hard drive, clickNew from existing, and then clickCreate New.

·  To apply a template that you've saved to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\, clickMy templates, select a custom template, and then clickOK.

·  To download and apply a template from Office Online, under Microsoft Office Online, click a template category, select a template, and then clickDownload.

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