Create a PowerPoint Design Template

Part 1, 2, 3

A Design Template is a pre-made slide or set of slides that you get when you click File > New in PowerPoint. For example, if you are designing something for the office, then your employer may have a Logo that needs to be added to each presentation. Instead of adding the Logo to each slide, you can set up a Design Template, and add the Logo to that. The template will then be available from the dialogue box when you click File > New.

Or, if you have Power 2003, when you click From Design Template in the Task Pane. You'll then see the available designs appear:

What you're going to do now is to create your own Design Template that will appear on the dialogue box or on the Task Pane. But to get an idea of what you'll be doing, select any of the Design Templates, and click OK.

When you do, you'll see a New Slide dialogue box. Select the first one (Title slide). PowerPoint will give you the following new slide:

Insert another slide by clicking Insert > New Slide from the PowerPoint menu at the top. This time, select the Bulleted list. You'll then see the following slide appear:

The point about all this is that you don't have to do any work formatting the background, the fonts, or the text box positions. All that has been taken care of in the Design Template.

The first thing to do when creating a Design Template is to set up a Master Slide. We'll do that in the next part.

Format a Master Slide for a Design Template -->

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