Is it possible to download the design for the presentation. How to create your own slide presentation template in PowerPoint

To neatly arrange elements in PowerPoint presentations and don't waste time manually adding them, use a template (POTX file). This will speed up the creation of the presentation.

Template storage space

C:\Users\

Replace <имя пользователя> your username on this computer.

Confirm template location in Office

Select File > Parameters > Save.

In section Saving presentations enter in the field Location of personal templates by default location shown above and suitable for your operating system Windows.

Click the button OK.

Applying a template

Template storage space

A template that you created yourself or obtained from another source should be saved in the correct location so that it can be easily applied to your presentation.

C:\Users\ \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates

Applying a template

What is a PowerPoint template?

A PowerPoint template is a prototype of a slide or group of slides saved in a POTX file. Templates can include layouts, colors, fonts, effects, background styles, and even content.

You can create and save your own templates, reuse them and share them with other users. You can also find hundreds of free templates different types that can be applied to presentations.

The following are some sample templates for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint available on Office.com.

The template may include the following elements:

1. Content that is related to the theme of the template, such as captions Certificate of honor , Football.

2. Background formatting such as graphics, texture, gradient or solid fill, and transparency. This example uses a light blue solid background fill and an image of a soccer ball.

3. Colors, fonts, effects (3D effects, lines, fills, shadows, etc.) and theme design elements (for example, color and gradient in the word "Football").

4. Text placeholders where users can enter unique information. Examples in the image above: Player name, coach's name, date of delivery and any variables, such as the year.

Imagine the following situation: you are making a presentation, you have chosen a suitable theme for design from the list, the desired font for the text, but the background of the selected theme is not very suitable and I would like to change it. If this is a children's presentation - put bright balloons, if it refers to nature - choose a field with flowers and a lake, and if you represent the goods of a company - you can put its logo as a background.

In this article, we will look at how to make the picture you want as a background in a PowerPoint presentation, and how you can change the transparency of the picture on the slide selected as the background.

We'll start with change template in PowerPoint. This will be especially useful for those who plan to repeatedly use the selected image as a background for various presentations.

Open the presentation and go to the tab "View". Now in a group "Sample Modes" click on the button "Slide Master".

Select the first slide, right-click on it and select from the context menu "Format Background".

The corresponding dialog box will open. On the "Fill" tab, put a marker in the field "Pattern or texture". You can choose one of the offered textures as a background. The result will be immediately visible on the slides.

To make the background of the slide a picture that is stored on your computer, in the "Insert from" field, click on the button "File". Using Explorer, find the desired image on your computer and click "Insert". The background of the slides in the presentation will change.

If you found a suitable image on the Internet, then you can also make this image a background for slides in PowerPoint. Open the image in full size, right-click on it and click "Copy". So we'll put it on the clipboard.

We return to the dialog box "Format Background" and click on the button "Clipboard". The background in the presentation will change.

As a background, you can also choose any picture from the PowerPoint collection. In the "Format Background" dialog box, click on the button "Picture", then select one of the proposed images and click "OK".

After you select the desired image as the background for the presentation, click "Close". To return to the familiar view for working with the presentation, on the "View" tab in the group "Presentation View Modes" click "Normal".

So, we have changed the template for the presentation. Now consider how save template with selected image as background in powerpoint.

Go to the "Design" tab, expand the list of available themes and select "Save Current Theme".

The saved theme with the desired slide background will be available in the general theme list. When creating a new presentation, you just need to select it.

If you need make a background for one slide in powerpoint, using the selected image, select the desired slide with the mouse, right-click on the background and select from the menu "Format Background".

Now select a picture or picture for the background of the presentation, as described above, and click "Close". Change the background only for the selected slide.

Pushing a button "Restore background"- the old background for the slide will return by clicking "Apply to all"- the selected picture will be set as the background for all presentation slides.

To change the background, for example, only from the second to the fifth slide, select the second slide, press "Shift" and select the fifth. To select slides that are not adjacent, hold down "Ctrl" and select them one at a time: 2, 3, 5. Right-click on any selected slide and select "Format Background" from the menu. Then do everything as described in the article.

Once you've made the right picture the background for the slides in your presentation, you may need to tweak it a bit. Let's see how we can make a transparent background in powerpoint and not only.

You can change the transparency of a background, picture, or picture in the Format Background dialog box. Select the desired slides and open the specified dialog box. On the Fill tab, in the Transparency field, move the slider to the desired position.

You do not need to select all slides for the changes to be applied to them, after all the settings, just click "Apply to all".

On the tab "Picture Adjustment", you can change the sharpness, brightness, and contrast. On the Picture Color tab, you can adjust the saturation and hue.

Making a picture or drawing a background in a PowerPoint presentation is not that difficult. In addition, you can save the customized template with the desired background and use it in all subsequent presentations. If your image is too bright, change the transparency of the background so that the audience is not distracted by it and can properly perceive the information presented in the slides.

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Discussion: 9 comments

1. With the "Format Background" command, the program stretches the image to cover the entire slide. And how to reduce the size of the image by area, as if we were dragging the corner of the image? I need the image to fit into the template, otherwise it is large. I reduced the size of the image in Photoshop, but it still stretches to the entire sheet.

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We have decided that the best version of the template can be made by hand. And this does not require a super level of skills in working in PowerPoint. Oddly enough, anyone, even a 100% humanist, can do this. Of course, if you are a beginner slide designer, then this will not be a competitive design. But it will be the most convenient, functional and budget solution.

Initial data

1. A certain brand favorite color or combination (again, see the previous article on how to choose colors).

2. It is especially good if there is some kind of unifying graphic object: a photo, or a picture, or Vector graphics- in a word, image (hereinafter referred to as ISO). We can use it both as an example of a color scheme and as a style that unites the entire preza into a single whole.

3. You can use this ISO as a whole, and you can also cut and use elements-pieces of this picture on different pages. And there will be a feeling of a single style of a slide presentation.

Rice. 1. ISO example: vector graphics

4. Ideally, if at least the draft already has a clear vision of each page of the presentation (how many letters, lines, numbers; tables or text; text + ART ...).

The dimensions of this article allow only a general schematic technology to be described.

We will consider the creation technology: 1) title page; 2) pages with title and text.

But on the basis of this technology, you can get up to create completely different author's slide presentations for all occasions.

1. Create a cover page template

1. Choose a suitable ISO, copy it (and forget about it for a while).

2. Create a new empty slide (“Home” → “Create Slide” → “Blank Slide”).

Rice. 2. Screen algorithm for creating a new slide

3. Go to the menu, click on "View" → "Slide Master" and on "Sample".

Rice. 3, 4. Entering the slide design editing mode

4. This is where we remember the copied ISO and paste it on the selected page.

Rice. 5. Inserted ISO in Slide Master mode

If you insert any elements on the topmost, first layout option in Slide Master mode, these elements will be present on all slides below!

5. We correct-correct: either the ISO completely matches the size of the slide (in the entire slide), or we cut out pieces-blanks from this ISO.

Rice. 6–10. Options for cutting and using pieces from the original art

6. Now we make a blank for placing the text (the title of the presentation...). To do this, select "Home" → "Shapes" → "Rectangle" from the menu. Draw a rectangle right on top of our ISO.

Rice. 11. Inserting a figure on ISO

7. Now we click on this rectangle with the right mouse button, a pop-up window appears, select it and click on "Shape Format".

Rice. 12.1. Editing a Rectangle Shape

8. In the new window that appears, select "Fill" → "Solid" → "Color" → "Black" (yes, that's not a typo, it's black). We choose the degree of transparency closer to the maximum (you can vary to taste), and our rectangle becomes an almost transparent frame for any text, for example for the name of the presentation!

Rice. 12.2. Editing a Rectangle Shape

8.1. Also, do not forget to set “Line Color” → “No Lines” in the same window, and then the borders of this frame will disappear.

8.2. After all these procedures, move the frame, experiment, explore in which part of the page the name will fit most organically, and enter your text in this frame. You can copy this blank frame to add text to another part of the page (for example, a subtitle).

Rice. 13. Approximate design option title page

9. We click on the red cross in the menu (thus we exit the mode of changing the design of slides to the normal mode) - and voila!

Rice. 14. Exit slide design change mode

The title page template is ready! You can verify this by going to "Home" → "Create Slide" → "Layout".

Rice. 15. Overview of Built-in New Slide Master Layouts

By the way, this template can also be used as a chapter separator.

2. Create a title + text slide template

1. We increase the original ISO to the size of the slide (or we find a larger picture on the Internet).

2. "Get up" on the ISO, click on it so that it can be edited. If you click on the picture, it becomes active and the "Format" option box appears in the menu bar.

3. Click on "Format" and "Cut".

Rice. 16. Image cropping

4. At this moment, borders appeared-changed on the edges of the ISO (see the figure above). We hook these borders with the mouse (Fig. 16) and drag the mouse (without releasing) - cut out a horizontal or vertical strip from this ISO right size(See Figure 6-10).

5. Copy this strip (and again forget about it for a while).

6. Create a new blank page.

7. Go to "View" → "Slide Master". We select a suitable page layout, insert our new strip into the newly made page.

8. We move it so that there is an optimally convenient location.

Everything is ready! You can verify this by looking at "Home" → "Create Page" → "Layout", and see your brainchild there. And then you can use it as many times as you like, with one easy click of the mouse. :)

Rice. 17. Visualization of a new template in "Layouts"

So let's recap.

Simplified scheme-technology

Using the same technology, you can create countless slide template layouts: “header + text + picture”, “header + list-list” ...

?", so I will not repeat myself, I will only say that the advantage of the 2010 version is a richer choice of built-in themes. You can also read about how to change the design of the selected template at your discretion in the above article.

The second way. Adding a template when creating a presentation

One of the differences between PowerPoint 2010 and 2007 is that the Office button has disappeared from the menu. Now its role is played by the tab File.

To create a new presentation based on a template, you need to go to the tab File and select item Create. A window of available themes and templates from Microsoft Office will open. As in PowerPoint 2007, this collection contains not only templates, but also diagrams, charts, cards, slides with ready-made backgrounds, books, forms, and more.

You can browse through each category and see available templates and other materials. The screenshot, for example, shows the available presentations for educational institutions.

The search field is now located in the middle of the window. This is a very handy tool for finding templates that must meet certain criteria. For example, if you enter the query "green background", then as a result we will get 35 templates with a green background in the issue. Time saving in its purest form.

The third way. Alternative PowerPoint Templates

The themes provided do not always meet our needs. But most often you can find a suitable template on the Internet, made by both professional companies and big fans of creating templates with their own hands.

Sites that provide paid or free of charge there are quite a few of their presentation templates, so finding them is not a problem. Including ours for creating PowerPoint presentations.

For other resources, see

When a suitable template is found, in order to start creating a presentation based on it, you just need to open it. 🙂

To create a custom theme, modify the built-in Office theme with different colors, fonts, or effects:

Change the theme's color, font, and effect settings.

Save your customized settings as a new theme in the gallery.

These actions are described below.

Customizing Theme Elements

Change theme colors, fonts and effects.

Changing Theme Colors

Theme colors include four colors for text and background, six colors for highlights, and two colors for hyperlinks. In section Sample

Changing Theme Fonts

Changing theme fonts will affect the text of all headings and lists in the presentation.

Selecting a set of theme effects

Theme effects include shadows, reflections, lines, fills, and more. Although you can't create your own set of theme effects, you can choose the right set of effects for your presentation.

Save a theme

Save your changes to colors, fonts, and effects as a new theme (.thmx file). Thanks to this, you can apply this theme to other presentations.

On the tab View press the button Slide Master. On the tab Slide Master select Themes.

In field File name name new topic and press the button Save.

Note: Modified themes are saved in the document themes folder on the local drive as THMX files and are automatically added to the list of custom themes (tab Design, Group Themes).

Click a section heading below for detailed instructions.

Changing Theme Colors

If you press the button Colors in a group Themes, contrasting colors and hyperlink colors will be indicated next to the theme name. Changing any of these colors to create your own set of theme colors will change the colors on the button accordingly. Colors and next to the name themes.

The Theme Colors collection displays all the color sets from the built-in themes. As shown below, theme colors include four colors for text and background, six contrast colors, and two colors for hyperlinks. In section Sample You can preview what the text font styles and colors will look like before choosing a color combination.

Changing Theme Fonts

Each Office theme comes with two sets of fonts: one for headings and one for body text. It can be the same font or two different fonts. With these fonts, PowerPoint creates automatic text styles. Changing theme fonts will affect the text of all headings and lists in the presentation.

When you press a button Fonts in a group Themes Below the theme name are the font names for the title and body text that are used for each theme.

As shown below, you can change the body text and heading fonts to suit your needs.

In section Sample examples of the selected heading and body text styles will be displayed.

Selecting a set of theme effects

Theme effects are a collection of line and fill effects. As shown below, you can select effects from different groups.

Although you can't create your own set of theme effects, you can choose the effects you want to use in your document or presentation theme.

Topic Overview

A theme is a color, font, and background design scheme applied to slides.