How to give a great look to your PowerPoint Design Template

I'm not gonna talk about the basic stuff, like how to save or edit the slide master of a PowerPoint Template (I already did). In this post I'm gonna tell you how to make it look good.

First and foremost you need to make it as simple as possible.

Don't put all the text that you are gonna say on the slide. That'll make it look very messy, unproffesional and it'll distract the audience's attention by reading what you are saying ahead of you. And that's not good.
A great way is to use images. You can find great images all over the internet and especially at flickr.com. But don't spread images all over a slide and put stupid animations, put the more like background images. And if you want to put some text put it over the image. Do not allign the text in the middle (looks very common), but try alligning it to something else in the picture. And do not use all kinds of unappropriate colors and text effexts.
One way to do it is to use just one word one slide. t'll be simple, it'll look fresh, it'll make you look like a pro.




Cheers!

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The guys over at ppted have for download a new PowerPoint Template Set with five awsome template designes with backgrounds for wide screen templates. These templates have great designes so they're for sale. You can view the simulated presentations over here.

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200+ Free Quality MS Powerpoint Templates

I think I've seen here a few of the greatest designed templates around. And you know where I've found them? On the Microsoft Office Online website.
You can click here to go to them. There are, I think, over 200 Presentations Templates.
They have categories like Academic, Business, Design, Healthcare, Training and quite a few others.
Check it out!

.POT File Extension

.pot file extension / file type is associated with PowerPoint Template (from Microsoft)
And this is what this blog is all about. I have also explained yesterday how you can create a PowerPoint Template.

Fresh Free Green Design Template

This is a fresh PowerPoint Design Template. It's green and it has a lime in it. You can download this .pot template for free by clicking here.

Create a PowerPoint Template

Learn How to Create a PowerPoint Template:

I've created this tutorial for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 or 2003, though you can use it in other versions (like MS Office's PowerPoint 97 or 2000) with maybe minor differences. Once the template is created you'll be able to use it with PowerPoint 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003. That being said, here's how it works:

Once you've opened PowerPoint select File -> New -> (and in the New Presentation task pane) Blank presentation.

Click View -> Master -> Slide Master. Then Insert -> New Title Master. Now you have a Slide Master (upper one) and a Title Master (lower one). Anything you modify or add in these masters will appear in on all the slides based on Slide Master.

Go to Slide Master preview to see your Slide Master in edit mode. Now you can add a Background (either a color or an image) - I hope you know how to do that.

Now, do the same with your Title Master. (Click it to see it in the edit mode and the edit anything you want to edit)

You can also edit, either in the Slide Master or in the Title Master the fonts used, the colors of the fonts and stuff (Format -> Slide Design -> Slide Design task pane -> Color Schemes), alignment and so on.

That's it. Just save your newly designed template by clicking File -> Save As -> and from the Save as type choose Design Template (*.pot)

Ta-daaam.

If you have andy issues just leave me a comment. *wink-wink*