How To Create A PowerPoint Template
Author: Nathan Martyn
If you are tired of using PowerPoint's default blank template, it is easy to create your own custom templates. You can add logos and pictures to the template, and also change the fonts and colors. The PowerPoint template can also be saved for future use. A simple template is very easy to create and you can reuse it as many times as you want with little effort. You can use your template to display your company's logo or to make it a little more personal.
Creating a Template
* You will begin by opening a new presentation in PowerPoint
* Select a slide layout and click OK
* You can now alter the template. You can add a color scheme or background, pictures, shapes, ClipArt, or WordArt.
* Click on File>Save As>Design Template
* In the pull down menu under Save As, click on the pull down arrow and choose Microsoft>Templates
* You will want to save the template in the Templates folder
You are now ready to apply your template as a presentation. You will begin by double clicking on the name of your template in the General tab.
Adding Color and Background Graphic
* Select Format>Slide Color Scheme. A dialog box will appear. Examples of color schemes can be found under the Standards tab. Select your color scheme and click on it. For one slide in a presentation click Apply. For all slides in the presentation, click Apply to All.
To create a custom color scheme click on Custom tab. Select the color scheme of your choice and click on Change Color. Once the changes are made, click on Apply or Apply to All.
To change the background, select Format>Background. You will see the Background Dialog Box. Choose the color you want to add to the slide and Click Apply or Apply to All. You can find many web sites allowing the downloading of free quality wallpapers for saving as your template background graphic. When searching for a template background, try to find wallpapers with solid colors and avoid colourful or visually complex images.
Adding Pictures
You can add pictures in AutoShapes, ClipArt, and Pictures from File, or Word Art.
To add an AutoShape, select Insert>Pictures>AutoShape. This will open an AutoShape Toolbar with a list of icons describing different shapes. Select one and choose a shape. A crosshair will appear when you move over on on the slide. Click and Drag until the shape is the size you want.
To move an image below the text, click on the shape. A box with 8 white squares surrounding it will appear behind the text.
To add ClipArt, pictures you have taken, or WordArt, you will follow the same steps. You will want to make sure once you finish the template that you resave it for future use.
There are many more advanced options to customize a template, however it is outside the scope of this article. With a little time and effort, you will be creating enriching PowerPoint templates in minutes.
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About the Author
Nathan Martyn is webmaster of Free PowerPoint Templates, created with the aim of providing the highest quality free PowerPoint templates and PowerPointbackgrounds.
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Smoking Help For school?
i have an assinement to create a powerpoint on smoking and i need celeb names for the powerpoin please help its due in a hour help help help !!!!!!!
Well thats an easy question almost all of them. It sucks doesnt it. To name a few: the olsen twins, lindsey lohan, britney spears, katie holmes, charlise theron and katherine heigle. But thats just some of the girls.
Why not include a link in your powerpoint.. and then play the video, it’s got celebs who smoke in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6WXpTMTD2Q
For summer school I have to do a written assignment and powerpoint on the positives and negatives on smoking?
…mj….
no I did’nt choose this its for my Allied health class…….
I know it seems lame but I need in your best opinions whats good and whats bad about it..And don’t jsut say stuff you’ve heard I want good sources none of this ”POTT WILL KILL YOU” crap she will give me an F….
and yes my teacher prob. does smoke weeed if your interested lol…
since yahoo does’nt know how to post questions in the alt. medicine section!
omfg people are so dumb I SAID NOT SMOKING CIGS IDIOTS I SAID HASH, WEEED, GANGAAAAAAAAAA MAYANS!!!!!!!
you people need to read!!!!1
positive- opens your mind, more creative, new perspectives, profound thinking, exaggerated appreciation for art, music, humor and philosophy
negative- makes you late for work if you smoke week nights,
Where can i download videos for anit tobacco and smoking?
I’m looking for a website where i can download anti tobacco and smoking videos for my project. I have been searching alot of websites and can’t find anywhere to download the videos I like to use in my project. And what is the embeded code for and how can i use it in a powerpoint for my project. can I also use the videos in youtube with the embeded code? Please help me with this!
Hi I work for a health video website called http://icyou.com. We have many anti-smoking videos which you can download, here are the links to a few of them:
http://www.icyou.com/topics/health-wellness/teen-smoking+
http://www.icyou.com/video-source/patients-and-people/american-lung-association-psa
http://www.icyou.com/topics/diseases-conditions/lung-cancer/quit-win-against-lung-cancer+
http://www.icyou.com/topics/wellness/daily-effects-cigarettes+
http://www.icyou.com/topics/health-wellness/smoke-free-america+
Embed codes only work on websites that can read html. To get them into your Power Point presentation, you need to first download the FLV file by using a site like keepvid.com (you just copy and paste the video page’s URL onto the site and they extract the FLV file for you to download)
To get it into Power Point you first will need to convert the FLV file (which can only be played with Adobe) into a AVI file (which can be played by Windows). To do this I use Handbrake (which you can download here: http://handbrake.fr/). You just put the FLV file into ‘Source’ and select AVI as your output settings- Handbrake converts the file for you and saves it to your computer. After that just select where you would like the video to go in your Power Point and then go to ‘Insert’ and click ‘Video’- select the AVI file you want to insert and you’re done~
Hope this helps!!
What song goes best about smoking?
I’m doing a health class project which involves a powerpoint. I want to add music to it but i dont know which song to pick. it has to be school appropriate…By the way this is 9th grade…and it cant be about marijuana..it has to be about tobacco cigarettes…sublime has a lot of smoking songs but there all marijuana and same with afroman..please help by this friday
Smokin in the Boys Room.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGnlF8fXy6Q&feature=related
or the Motley Crue cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYhGi65Lijg&feature=related
What’s a good, effective way to convince someone to stop smoking?
For a project at school, I have to come up with creative way to convince someone to stop smoking, it can be done in any way; powerpoint, commercial, poem, short story.
But I’m coming up blank. >.<
any ideas?
personally, i think the most convincing way is to show pictures of black lungs and respiratory airways to show the health affects of smoking.
if u want, u can even make a model of a black lung or an affected liver… idk…