Archive for September, 2010

Text Formatting in PowerPoint Templates

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

We recently had a question from one of our members about changing the way our PowerPoint templates formatted the text in placeholders.  It seems that our subscriber was finding herself constantly tweaking the layout of each slide to fit the exact format that she needed.

I thought I’d post a video tutorial about how you can easily modify the Master Slide to a custom format to exactly fit your needs.

This video will show you how to modify the Slide Master in a PowerPoint Template to control the text on every new slide you add.  In this way you can make the change one time and have it apply to every slide in your presentation.

I’ve written more about using the slide master in our PowerPoint templates here:

Removing Elements from PowerPoint Templates

Changing PowerPoint Templates

Customizing A PowerPoint Template

Theme Enabled PowerPoint Templates

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Color themes in PowerPoint are a feature of PowerPoint 2007, 2008 and 2010.  They allow you to change the entire look of a template by simply selecting different layouts and colors.  We have recently been adding more PowerPoint templates that take full advantage of the this powerful feature.

You can change the color theme of a template by selecting “Colors” under the design tab on the PowerPoint ribbon.

Here is a video showing how themes work in out templates.

The video also demonstrates how easy it is to replace graphics in our templates.

Watch the video to see how to change colors and graphics in our PowerPoint templates.

You can also create a custom colors for our templates by creating your own color pallet. You can learn how to create your own color theme here.

View all our PowerPoint Templates here.