This inevitably happens with templates and you want to be prepared for it! In the Size section, verify that the height of the placeholders is the same. Remember to also add new guides around these placeholders to help keep them in place. Note: For the slide number placeholder, you can also add symbols as I have here such as a bar and two spaces , in order to create a visual break from the other placeholders.
The next thing is to format the date and time footer placeholder. You can choose any kind of formatting you like. The final default placeholder to format on the Parent Slide here is the footer text placeholder. This way, it is next to the logo and the text inserted will extend out towards the right. While all the default placeholders have now been set up and formatted correctly, there is still one element that you can add on the Parent Slide of your Slide Master; and that is a logo.
You can also use this same technique to add a watermark to your PowerPoint slides. To see the different ways to do this, read our guide here. The Child Slides represent the blueprints for each type of slide included in your template.
By default, your Child Slide layouts will inherit your Parent Slide formatting, but as you will see, you can tweak these layouts to meet your individual needs. The key to designing good Child Slide layouts is to keep in mind how the end-user is likely going to insert content on each type of slide.
You want to make it easy for everyone to quickly fill them in when using your template. The first step is to edit the Title slide layout. This layout is designed to be filled in with the title and general information about your presentation. Typically, its looks slightly different than the rest of the layouts.
The first thing we need to do when formatting our Title slide layout is to think about the background. Typically, a Title slide will have a slightly different background from the regular Content slides. However, because the background has been set on the Parent Slide, this means that you will have to deviate from it.
The first method for hiding anything on the background graphics such as the logo, background patterns, design elements, etc. To do that, with the rectangle still selected, go to the Shape Format tab on the Ribbon, click on the Send Backward dropdown and select Send to Back. This includes and background images or patterns, logos, and other design elements. You can easily make them visible again by unchecking the Hide Background Graphics checkbox. While the background image can be different, we want to keep the theme consistent across all our slides.
First, navigate back to the Parent Slide and select the pattern image without the gradient. Note: Pasting an object directly into your slide background like this means that it can no longer be edited in your PowerPoint template. If instead you paste it onto the slide as an image, you can always go back in and make adjustments to the image, and therefore the background too.
The next step is to add in a design element that matches the general theme and style of the template. To do that, right-click the rectangle, open the Send Backward dropdown and select Send to Back. First, adjust your Title and Subtitle placeholders. To do that, simply select the two placeholders and:. Because if someone decides to use them despite your instructions, you still want them to appear correctly and match the rest of the template.
There, you can turn them on. So unless you truly want someone to NEVER be able to add a page number, date and time, and footer text to the Title layout, then I recommend leaving them on the Child Slide, in order to keep that option open.
If you deselect the Footers checkbox in the Slide Master View as we did above, then when someone tries to insert footers in the Normal View, they will not appear. One more thing you might notice is that the guides are not visible on the Title slide. Unfortunately, the guides you set on the Parent Slide will likely not match the content you have on the Title slide and any Child Slide whose content deviates from it.
The next step is to edit the most commonly used PowerPoint slide in any presentation, the Title and Content layout. However, in this example, we are going to add one more design element to the layout, which is a straight line. To do that simply:. That means that the Parent Slide has to be relatively bare-bones.
You can always add extra elements in the Child Slides. From here onward, you will need to format each of the Child Slides to match the content that goes in it. You will want to follow the same procedure as in Step 2 above, keeping in mind what each Child Slide is designed for and how the content should be placed. Some layouts will require more custom formatting and design elements.
For example, for the Divider slide the first slide in the examples below, I have added a rectangle that matches the design elements on the Title slide layout. In addition to the default Child Slides that PowerPoint gives you, you have the option to create your own. If you make the slide under 10 times, it may not be worth clogging up your Slide Master area. But if you use it frequently, creating a layout template for that type of slide will save you countless hours.
Keep in mind that the blank layout and other blank variations can always be used to create more one-off slides. Creating a Custom Agenda Slide. Note: You can change the shape of a placeholder, along with all other properties of a typical shape. That means that you can also add fill, outline, effects, etc. Note: You can perform these steps for all custom Child Slides. You can also create custom layouts for a lot of slides such as sport slides, case studies, contact us, etc. There are also other slides in the template such as the content slide with subtitles, a blank slide with a title.
You can format them per your requirements. They are not very different from one another, however, the only different ones are the title slide and the divider slide. The first thing is to set the animations and transitions for your slides. For all placeholders that you want to automatically animate in your template, simply select it and apply your animation.
These masters determine the look and feel of your PowerPoint handouts when you print them. To learn how to format these elements in regards to printing multiple slides per page in PowerPoint, read our guide here. It is highly recommended that you test your template before you distribute it. That way you catch any errors before your users do. You now have the foundational skills to start creating your own PowerPoint templates and use them to build beautiful and tailor-made PowerPoint presentations in the future.
If you want to learn more about building and deploying your template in professional settings, I recommend checking out my step-by-step training course, see details here.
You'll also get our newsletter with the best PPT tips on the web, which you can unsubscribe from with one click. We collect and protect your information in accordance to our Privacy Policy. What is a PowerPoint template and why do you need one? Part 1. Creating your PowerPoint template slide backgrounds. Use the different paste special options. Elements like background, colours, titles, etc. You can save the template separately and reuse it for as many presentations as you need. As all the designs and slides have already been defined, you only need to add your custom text and pictures.
That saves a lot of time. Templates are especially perfect for companies. Make one template that fits the corporate design and any employee can use them from now on, saving time and giving your business a consistent and professional appearance. Now, learn how to create a template by watching our video or reading the steps below. Video The slide master The Slide Master is the most important tool for creating templates.
Edit slide masters more precisely We use the main slide to pre-set all our important elements. Fonts: Click Fonts and then Customise Fonts and choose styles for your titles and regular text. Background: Go as crazy-creative or minimalistic as you want. Change the background colour, maybe add some shapes, or look for a nice image online that works behind your text.
Text Style: Do the same for your regular text boxes. Define what the bullet points should look like. Footer: You can switch the footer elements around, replace them and change them like any regular text. Using themes While themes in PowerPoint are similar to templates, they are not the same thing.
Use the right fonts A very important point with PowerPoint presentations is to choose the right font, because it must be easy to read, but it should also not be boring. Advance image design in templates A cool effect for a template is to crop images to a custom shape so they are not shown as boring rectangles.
Rename master slides If you want to give each slide a specific name it will be shown in the layout chooser , you can easily rename it in the slide master. Individual Templates for each slide layout Once you are finished with your main slide, you can go ahead and adjust the other slide layouts.
To turn off the background that has been given to the slide by setting it in the main slide , just tick off the box Hide background graphics in the top Slide Master menu. You are then free to design the background from scratch.
Footers: On some slides you might not want the footer to show. 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 add a placeholder to hold text, a picture, chart, video, sound, and other objects , in the thumbnail pane, select the slide layout that you want to hold the placeholder, and do the following:. Click Insert Placeholder , and select the type of placeholder you want to add.
Tip: To resize a placeholder, drag the corner of one of its borders. To move a placeholder around on a slide master or slide layout, select the edge and then drag it into a new position.
To remove an unwanted placeholder in a slide master or slide layout, select it in the slide thumbnail pane, and then select the border of the placeholder on the slide and press Delete.
Under Orientation , choose Portrait or Landscape. Under Save , click Browse to open the Save As dialog box. When you choose the "template" type, 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, type a file name for your template, or do nothing to accept the suggested file name. See Apply a template to your presentation. Create your own theme in PowerPoint. Save a slide design theme as a template. Edit, change, or delete a placeholder. What is a slide master? What is a slide layout? Create and use your own template in Office for Mac.
Important: Office is no longer supported. Upgrade to Microsoft to work anywhere from any device and continue to receive support. Upgrade now. On the Design tab, select Page Setup , and choose the orientation and page dimensions you want. Tip: In Slide Master view, in the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master represents the larger slide image, and the associated layouts are smaller, positioned beneath it.
To remove an unwanted, default placeholder from a layout , 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 do the following:. To add other types of placeholders that contain content such as pictures, clip art, screen shots, SmartArt graphics, charts, movies, sounds, and tables, on the Slide Master tab, in the Master Layout group, click Insert Placeholder , and then click the type of placeholder that you want to add.
As shown below, theme colors contain four text and background colors, six accent colors, and two hyperlink colors. Tip: The colors inside the Colors button represent the theme applied to your presentation. Under Theme colors , click the button next to the name of the theme color element that you want to change. Click the down arrow of the color that you want to change, and then choose a color from the main list.
Tip: Under Sample , you can see the effect of the changes that you make. In the Name box, type an appropriate name for the new theme colors, and then click Save. Tip: If you want to return all theme color elements to their original theme colors, click Reset before you click Save. Every Office theme defines two fonts — one for headings and one for body text. They can be the same font used everywhere or two different fonts. PowerPoint uses these fonts to construct automatic text styles.
Changing the theme fonts updates all of the title and bullet text in your presentation. When you click Fonts in the Themes group, the names of the heading font and body text font that are used for each theme font appear below the theme name. As shown below, you can change the heading and body text fonts of an existing theme to meet the style of your presentation. Under Sample , you can see samples of the heading and body text styles that you've chosen.
In the Heading font and Body font boxes, select the fonts that you want to use. In the Name box, type an appropriate name for the new theme fonts, and then click Save. Theme effects are sets of lines and fill effects. As shown below, you can choose from different groupings of effects to meet the style of your presentation.
Although you cannot create your own set of theme effects, you can choose the effect that you want to use in your own document or presentation theme. On the Design tab, in the Themes group, click Effects.
Save the changes that you make to the colors, fonts, or line and fill effects of an existing theme so that you can apply it to other documents or presentations. On the Design tab, in the Themes group, click More.
In the File name box, type an appropriate name for the theme, and then click Save. Tip: The revised theme is saved as a. To find a theme to use in your presentation, click the Design tab, click a theme, and see how it previews on the slide. You can further customize the theme by changing the fonts, colors, and background colors on the Design tab.
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