How to Make a Slide Template in Powerpoint 2007

When you create a presentation and and so save it as a PowerPoint template (.potx) file, you can share it with your colleagues and reuse it again. To create a template, y'all'll need to modify a slide principal and a set of slide layouts.

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Click a heading below to open the department and run into detailed instructions:

Open up a bare presentation: File > New > Blank Presentation
On the Design tab, select Slide Size > Custom Slide Size and cull the page orientation and dimensions you want.
On the View tab, in the Master Views group, choose Slide Main.

The slide master is the largest slide image at the top of the slide thumbnail list, to the left of your slides. Associated slide layouts are positioned beneath the slide master.
To make changes to the slide primary or slide layouts, on the Slide Master tab, do any of the following:
- 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 change the background, click Groundwork Styles, and choose a groundwork.
- To add a placeholder (to agree text, a moving-picture show, chart, video, sound, and other objects), in the thumbnail pane, select the slide layout that y'all desire to hold the placeholder, and exercise the following:
  - Click Insert Placeholder, and select the type of placeholder y'all want to add.
  - On the slide chief or slide layout, click and drag to draw the placeholder size.
    
    Tip: To resize a placeholder, drag the corner of 1 of its borders.
- To move a placeholder effectually on a slide chief or slide layout, select the edge so elevate information technology into a new position.
- To remove an unwanted placeholder in a slide primary or slide layout, select information technology in the slide thumbnail pane, and so select the edge of the placeholder on the slide and press Delete.
- To fix the folio orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, click Slide Size > Custom Slide Size.
  
  Under Orientation, cull Portrait or Landscape.

On the File tab, click Save Every bit (or Salve a Copy, if you are using Microsoft 365).
Nether Save, click Browse to open the Save As dialog box.
In the Salvage As dialog box, in the Save as blazon list, cull PowerPoint Template.

When y'all choose the "template" blazon, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the appropriate folder, the Custom Office Templates binder.
In the Save Every bit dialog box, in the File proper noun box, type a file name for your template, or do nothing to accept the suggested file name.
Select Save.
To utilise your template for a new presentation, click File > New. And then click Custom > Custom Office Templates, and then double-click the template you saved.

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On the File tab, click Salve As, in the File name box give your template a name, and so in the Save every bit type box, select PowerPoint Template (*.potx).

Save your presentation as a .potx file

Click a heading below to open the section and see the instructions:

To begin creating the template that you'll use in your presentation, exercise the post-obit:

Open a blank presentation.
On the Design tab, select Page Setup, and choose the orientation and page dimensions yous want.
On the View tab, in the Chief Views group, click Slide Master.

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.

1. Slide primary

2. Associated layouts
To customize the slide master and associated layouts, do one or more than of the following:
- To remove an unwanted, default placeholder from a layout, in the slide thumbnail pane, click the slide layout that contains the placeholder, click the edge 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 lot want to comprise the placeholder, and then do the following:
  1. On the Slide Master tab, in the Principal Layout group, click Insert Placeholder, and and then click Text.
  2. Click a location on the slide master, and and so elevate to draw the placeholder.
    
    Tip: To resize a placeholder, elevate the corner of ane of its borders.
  3. Type descriptive text that prompts the users of your template to enter specific information.
- To add other types of placeholders that incorporate content such as pictures, clip art, screen shots, SmartArt graphics, charts, movies, sounds, and tables, on the Slide Chief tab, in the Primary Layout grouping, click Insert Placeholder, and then click the type of placeholder that yous want to add.
- To add character by using colour and a background, do one of the following:
  1. To employ a theme (to include colour, formatting, effects, in a layout) to your presentation, on the Slide Chief tab, in the Edit Theme group, click Themes, and so select a theme.
  2. To change the groundwork, on the Slide Master tab, in the Groundwork group, click Groundwork Styles, and then select a background.

To salve your template, click the File tab, then click Save Equally.
In the File proper noun box, blazon a file name, or do nix to have the suggested file proper name.
In the Salvage as type list, click PowerPoint Template (.potx).

When yous choose the "template" type, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the appropriate binder, the \Program Files\Microsoft Role\Templates\ folder.
Select Save.
To utilise your template for a new presentation, click File > New. Then click My templates. In the New Presentation dialog box, select the template yous saved, and click OK.

If you need assistance applying your new template to a presentation, see Employ a template to your presentation.

Links to more information near PowerPoint templates

Apply a template to your presentation
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What is a slide layout?

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To apply a new or different PowerPoint 2007 template that already exists, see Apply a template to your presentation.

Best practice for creating a template

When you create a template, add any content to the slide primary in Slide Master view that y'all want to protect from being inverse by users of your template, such as instructional prompt text, logos, header and footer data, discipline thing content, a groundwork, formatting, colors, fonts, and effects.

Users of your template volition work in Normal view, guided by the instructional prompts that you added. The template users will replace the instructional prompt text and other placeholder content with data that is specific to their own project or presentation.

Open a blank presentation.
On the Design tab, select Page Setup, and choose the orientation and folio dimensions you want.
On the View tab, in the Presentation Views grouping, click Slide Main.
On the Slide Main tab, in the Edit Master group, click Insert Slide Master.
Notes:
- In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide principal represents the larger slide paradigm, and the associated layouts are positioned below it.
- Many presentations contain more than than ane slide master, so yous may have to curl to observe the one that yous desire.
To begin customizing the slide master, do ane or more of the following:
- To remove whatsoever of the built-in slide layouts that accompany the default slide master, in the slide thumbnail pane, right-click each slide layout that you don't want to use, and then click Delete Layout.
- To remove an unwanted, default placeholder, 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 yous want to incorporate the placeholder, and then exercise the following:
On the Slide Master tab, in the Principal Layout grouping, click Insert Placeholder, and and so click Text.
Click a location on the slide master, and and then drag to describe the placeholder.

Tip: To resize a placeholder, drag the corner of 1 of its borders.
Type descriptive text that prompts the users of your template to enter specific information.
- To add other types of placeholders that comprise content such as pictures, clip art, SmartArt graphics, charts, movies, sounds, and tables, on the Slide Master tab, in the Main Layout group, click the type of placeholder that you want to add.
- To apply a theme (to include color, formatting, furnishings, in a layout) to your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, in the Edit Theme group, click Themes, and then click a theme.
- To change the groundwork, on the Slide Master tab, in the Background group, click Groundwork Styles, so click a groundwork.
- To gear up the page orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, in the Page Setup grouping, click Slide Orientation, and and then click either Portrait or Landscape.
- To add text to announced in the footer at the bottom of all of the slides in your presentation, do the following:
  1. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Header & Footer.
  2. In the Header and Footer dialog box, on the Slide tab, select the Footer check box, and and then type the text that y'all want to appear at the bottom of your slides.
  3. To brandish the footer content on all slides, click Apply to All.
    
    For more information about using footers, see Prove footer information on your slides.

Click the Microsoft Function Push , and and so click Salvage Equally.
In the File name box, type a file name, or exercise nothing to accept the suggested file name.
In the Save as type list, click PowerPoint Template (*.potx).

When you choose the "template" blazon, PowerPoint automatically switches the storage location to the advisable folder, the \Plan Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\ folder.
Select Save.
If you need assist applying your new template to a presentation, run across Apply a template to a new presentation.