I’ll click Normal to switch back to Normal view. We’re done with our customizations to the slide master. To rename the layout, right-click the thumbnail, choose Rename Layout, we’ll call it, Wine Profile, and click Rename. Another useful change I’ll make to this layout is to this prompt text: How about “Wine name goes here.” Then, for Top Margin, I’ll bump up the spacing to. I’ll close the Size options and click Text Box. To add more space above the body text, I’ll right-click the placeholder, click Format Shape, and Size & Properties. To increase the font sizes in the text placeholders, I’ll select the placeholder, click Home, and change the font size for each one. To widen the text placeholders, I’ll press CTRL, select them both, and drag the right side. Then I’ll use the arrow keys to nudge the placeholder over and up, just eyeballing the placement. I’ll close the Format Shape pane for now.Īnd I’ll click View, Gridlines as the gridlines will help me position the placeholder. Then I’ll type in the height and width of our photos, and press Enter. Then I click Size & Properties, and Size.īefore anything else, I’ll uncheck Lock aspect ratio so that I can control both height and width. To work with it, I’ll right-click it, and click Format Shape. The Picture placeholder needs to fit the dimensions of our cropped photos. I want to resize the placeholders and make the fonts bigger. We use this layout for the wine photo and description. We’ve got the layouts down to five, and we’re going to customize one of them, the Picture with Caption layout. As long as no slide is using a given layout, you can delete it. We’ll start by deleting the layouts we don’t want. This is a way to really customize a presentation. Now, let’s make changes to the master layouts. There’s the footer text, but let’s make it bigger: I’ll select the placeholder on the slide master, click Home, Font Size, and change the size to 16.īecause I’ve put the footer on the slide master, it appears in every master layout. So, let’s click Insert, Header & Footer check Footer, and paste in the URL. I’ll select the slide master, the top slide, to make my first change: This will apply to the text footer. Next, I’ll click View, Slide Master to make changes to the slide master. Over in Variants, there’s an alternative, purple color scheme for this theme. Let’s begin with Design, and the Themes gallery.įor a presentation featuring wine, I’d like a deep, rich theme I’ll try this one. Themes are different than templates in PowerPoint:Ī theme is a slide design made up of cohesive colors, fonts, and effects such as shadows or reflections.Ī template includes a theme, but also contains instructions in placeholders suggesting what to insert and what types of information the user of the template might want to include.When you create a presentation you want to save as a template, start with the cleanest file possible, and get your design in place, first. Select your template, and then click Create. Select Custom > Custom Office Templates to find your template. To make use of your template when you create a new presentation: In the Save as type list, select PowerPoint Template, and then click Save. In the Save As dialog box, in the File name box, type a name for the template. Open the presentation that contains the slide design (theme) that you want to save as a template.īrowse to C:\Users\ \Documents\Custom Office Templates. If you create a slide design (theme) and you want to save it as a template (.potx file), simply do the following:
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