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Using Slide Design Templates
One of the things that made PowerPoint so popular is its gallery of preset slide design templates. These are incredibly easy to apply, and make it a no-brainer to coordinate the background, title, and bullet text.
To access the Design Gallery:
1. Click Design Templates at the top of the Slide Design task pane. 2. Scroll through the Design Gallery to find a design you like. 3. Move your mouse over it to get the drop-down arrow. 4. Click the arrow for apply menu options. 5. Apply the Design Template to all slides or the selected slide (see Figure 5.16).
Figure 5.16. Applying a design template enables you to instantly
apply a color-coordinated background to one or more selected slides.
Notice that when a design template is applied, it changes the font colors of the title and bullet text along with it in a coordinated way (perfect for bachelors). To alter some of the ways that elements
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are colored for the design template you've chosen, you can go back and alter its color scheme.
If you've put a pattern, texture, or image on the slide in backgrounds, the design template might not be applied visibly until those fill effects have been removed.
Some designs contain simple animations. Make sure that you practice your presentation before you go in front of an audience. Also, changing designs can occasionally change the layout of fonts and the look of content items that we'll be adding shortly. Go through your presentation carefully to gauge the overall effect of design changes you've made.
One of the surest ways to elicit a silent groan from your audience is to use one of the stale, old PowerPoint design templates right out of the chute (with no embellishment).
We'll learn to create our own templates in Hour 11, "Working Smarter Not Harder," but you can get a head start if you have a Web connection.
The first stop is the Microsoft Office Web site at Microsoft.com, which always features templates that you can preview in Internet Explorer and save directly into your Templates folder. Remember: location, location, location! Make sure that you select the folder named Templates.
You should also check out the Web sites for the major projector manufacturers, such as Proxima and even presentationsuniversity.com.
Finally, a search for PowerPoint templates in Google or Yahoo! can lead you to some backgrounds that no one has seen or that you can customize.
Some templates are just images on the background with no settings for coordinated fonts. But true design templates should have settings for default fonts within the text placeholders with font colors that complement the template design.
If the templates don't have these settings, you now have the tools to reformat the text manually to match the design. Or you can experiment with the background or color scheme settings to tweak any downloaded template to your own purposes.
Note that Backgrounds, Color Schemes, and Slide Designs can be applied to multiple slides by selecting them in either the slide thumbnails or within Slide Sorter view.
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