PowerPoint Tutorial - Applying Templates

Applying an existing template

PowerPoint calls its built-in color schemes Design Templates. Design Template can only be applied to all slides of a presentation. To make design changes in certain slides only, see section oncustomizing background.

• From the Format menu, choose Apply Design Template
• Clicking the various presentation options shows thumbnail views of their designs. Click "OK" to choose one.

Creating a new template using masters
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Like Design Templates, Masters allow you to make design decisions that will then affect each slide or page in the presentation. There are masters for Slides, Title Slide, Handouts and Notes.

Each Design Template has its own Slide Master that can be altered. If you create slides from scratch, a consistent style can be added to the presentation by formatting the Slide Master.

• Select View menu < Master < Slide Master (or another master from the list)

• Format the master slide just as you would format a regular slide. See previous sections on how to format text and lists, add background patterns and effects, and set headers and footers.
  DO NOT TYPE TEXT on a master slide, unless you want this text to appear in EACH slide of the presentation.
• It is a good idea to set up the master before building any slides. When you create the master first, all slides you add to the presentation will be based on that master. If, however, you build slides before establishing the master, some items on the slides may not change to conform.You can override some of the master specifications on individual slides by using thebackground and text formatting features, but others, such as master footers and logos can only be modified on the master view.
• If you wish to keep the design you created using masters for use in future presentations, you must save it as a template.
  • Create or open the master slide of the design you want to save.
  • Select File menu < Save As...
  • Do NOT change the default 'Save in' location.
  • On the Save as type menu, select 'Design Template'.
  • Give a name to your new design and click 'Save'. The next time you select Format < Apply Design Template the design you created will appear in the list of options. Select it and click 'OK' to apply it to the presentation.

Penn SOM Template
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At this point, there are no standards for PowerPoint presentations representing the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. However, the School of Medicine does provide a template preferred by the Dean for Penn SOM faculty to use, if they wish.