Applying a Design Template

PowerPoint provides a collection of professionally designed templates that you can use to create effective presentations. Start with a template when you have a good idea of your content but want to take advantage of a template's professional design and formatting. Each template provides a format and color scheme so you only need to add text. You can choose a new template for your presentation at any point, either when you first start your presentation or after you've developed the content.

Create a New Presentation with a Template

Click the File menu, and then click New.

Click From Design Template on the task pane.

Click the slide design you want to apply to your slides.

PowerPoint applies the design to the new presentation.

Apply a Template to an Existing Presentation

Click the Slide Design button on the Formatting toolbar.

Point to the design you want.

Click the list arrow, and then click Apply To All Slides, or Apply To Selected Slides.