This helps avoid jumping titles for any slides that have more than one line of text. On the flip side, if you plan on having short titles for all your slides no more than one line , I recommend using the Middle text alignment instead. Regardless of what you decide, make sure you test different title lengths to see what will work best for your PowerPoint template. Adjusting your guides like this will make aligning objects on your slides much easier as your Smart Guides will automatically snap them together.
That will turn them on. Alternatively, you can go up to the View tab in the Ribbon and select Guides inside the Show area. The Text placeholder on your Parent Slide is special in that it will dictate the default formatting of all the other content placeholders in your presentation except for the Title placeholder and the Footer placeholders.
Setting the default here on the Parent Slide is important because it makes it a lot easier to make fast and consistent changes to swathes of content down the road. Later in this template series, I will show you how to format away from this default behavior on the Child Slides.
But first you want to set its default formatting. To do that:. In this step, you need to align the horizontal and the vertical guides to that they align with the Text placeholder. The next step is to change the font size of the different levels of text inside the placeholder. Next, you have to adjust the indent of the bulleted lists so that it appears in all your slide layouts.
You can adjust the bullets as per your personal preference. Based on your knowledge of how someone is going to be using this template, you might decide to add more or less space as required. You can see their book on templates here.
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.
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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. Add a pattern background to your slide. Crop images to fit your entire slide background. Add a radial gradient fill to a shape with transparency. Add new guides and move them around on your Slide Master.
And more! Set the colors for your PowerPoint template. To choose a color scheme for your PowerPoint template, simply:. Set the fonts for your template. To navigate to your PowerPoint Slide Master, simply:. To choose a new font combination for your PowerPoint template, simply: Navigate to the Design tab. Open the More variants options. Select the Fonts options. Click the font combination you want to use. Navigate to the Slide Master View.
To choose a new font combination for your PowerPoint template, simply: Navigate to the View tab. Select the Slide Master command in your ribbon. Customize your Parent Slide background. Crop to aspect ratio. To do that, simply: Select the background image you have pasted on the slide Navigate to the Format tab. Open the Crop dropdown. Open the Aspect Ratio options. Choose your aspect ratio. In the picture above I chose for widescreen to match my slide dimensions another common aspect ratio is for printed slides.
Adjust your photo within the frame. Hit the Crop command again or hit Esc on your keyboard. This will make resizing the image to fit your template much easier without having to worry about warping the image. Fill out your slide background. To make the image fit your entire slide space, there are two options. You can alternatively resize your image as such:. Create a semi-transparent gradient layer.
Step 1: Insert and format a rectangle. Draw in the rectangle so that it covers your entire background image for this to work, your rectangle needs to be the same exact size as the image you want to make transparent. Remove its outline by going to the Shape Outline dropdown and selecting No Outline. Step 2: Add a gradient fill. With the rectangle still selected, make the following adjustments: Select your Rectangle and click Format Shape to open the Format Shape dialog box.
Opening the Format Shape dialog box gives you a wide variety of formatting options you can use to format your shape backgrounds for your template. Select the Gradient fill. In the Type dropdown, select Radial. In the Gradient stops bar, select the first gradient stop, and from the fill Color dropdown, select white. Next, select the second gradient bar and drag it to the right. From the fill Color dropdown, select white. Then, select the third gradient bar and drag it to the right.
Finally, select the last gradient bar and drag it to the right. Add a slide background design element. To do that, simply: Navigate to the Insert tab and select the Shapes dropdown. Select a Rectangle and draw it on the right-hand side of your slide. Make sure to place it on the edge of your slide. Add and edit your guides. In PowerPoint, guides help with formatting, positioning, and slide-to-slide consistency. Notice that there are two guides: one vertical and one horizontal. To move a guide, place your mouse over it, and when your cursor becomes a double-headed arrow, drag the guide to where you want it on your slide.
We will look at adding more guides in part 2 of this series. Part 2. Setting up your template placeholders and footers. Format the Title placeholder. Change the font size. In the Font Size dialog box, enter 40 or whatever size you want. Resize and position the placeholder. Awesome PC Accessories. Best Linux Laptops. Best Wireless iPhone Earbuds. Best Bluetooth Trackers. Best eReaders. Best VPN. Browse All News Articles. Windows 11 Uninstall Clock.
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