- Introduction
- Making Your Presentation Look Consistent
- Viewing Masters
- Controlling Slide Appearance with Masters
- Controlling a Slide Layout with Masters
- Modifying Placeholders
- Controlling a Slide Background with Masters
- Adding a Header and Footer
- Inserting Slide Numbers
- Inserting the Date and Time
- Understanding Color Themes
- Viewing and Applying a Theme
- Creating a Color Theme
- Choosing Theme Fonts
- Choosing Theme Effects
- Creating a Custom Theme
- Adding Colors to a Presentation
- Adding a Background Style
- Modifying a Background Style
- Setting Up for Personal Templates
- Creating a Personal Template
- Opening a Template
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Creating a Personal Template
You can create your own personal template as easily as you create a presentation. Like those that come with PowerPoint, custom templates can save you time. Perhaps each month you create a presentation in which you enter repetitive information; all that changes is the actual data. By creating your own template, you can have a custom form that is ready for completion each time you take inventory. A template file (.potx) saves all the customization you made to reuse in other documents. You can store your template anywhere you want; however, you may find it handy to store it in a My Templates folder (New!), or the default Custom Office Templates folder (New!). When you set up the default personal templates folder in the Options dialog box under Save, your personal templates appear under Custom in the Start or New screen.
Create a Personal Template
Enter all the necessary information in a presentation—including text, graphics, and formatting.
Click the File tab, and then click Save As.
Click Computer, and then click Browse.
Click the Save as type list arrow, and then select a template format.- PowerPoint Template. Creates a template for PowerPoint 2007-2013.
- PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Template. Creates a template for PowerPoint 2007-2013 with macros.
- PowerPoint 97-2003 Template. Creates a template for PowerPoint 97-2003.
Navigate to your personal templates folder.
My Templates. C:\Users\user name\My Templates; your location might differ.
Custom Office Templates. C:\Users\user name\Documents\Custom Office Templates.
Type a name for your template.
Click Save.
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