Chapter 5: Applying and Modifying Design Templates

Overview

In this chapter you will learn to:

• Make a presentation look consistent.

• View and change a presentation s masters.

• Format text and bullets throughout a presentation.

• Save a presentation as a design template.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 comes with a wide variety of professionally designed templates ” sets of colors, text formats, and graphics that can help you achieve the look that you want for your presentations. You can use one of these predefined templates to create a new presentation, or you can apply a template to an existing presentation.

When you apply a template to a presentation, the slides take on the characteristics of the template so that a uniform design is maintained throughout the presentation. PowerPoint templates use masters ” design patterns for slides, handouts, and speaker notes. When you create a slide, for example, it assumes the design of its corresponding master. You can then customize the slide s text, graphics, and other elements.

In this chapter, you will apply a PowerPoint template to a presentation, view various masters, change the display of the master objects, modify and format the master text, and save a presentation as a template.

See Also  

Do you need only a quick refresher on the topics in this chapter? See the Quick Reference entries on page xxxiv.

Important  

 On the CD     Before you can use the practice files in this chapter, you need to install them from the book s companion CD to their default location. See Using the Book s CD-ROM on page xiii for more information.