Tips to Customize your PowerPoint Template
April 9th, 2008When it comes to making Presentations for our clients or any business meeting ,no software can beat Microsoft PowerPoint and usability of PowerPoint .Microsoft PowerPoint covers up almost 96% market share of Presentation software.but have you seen any common powerpoint template in business or any seminar which you attend ?
There are too many templates . . .
I would like to share some tips to customising your PowerPoint presentations and how to change those common Microsoft Powerpoint Templates. In reality all of the powerpoint template presentations that Microsoft provides with their package are in fact customisable. They are simply built on individual drawing objects that can be found on the Drawing toolbar under the AutoShapes menu.
So how will we do that ?
At First create a new presentation, by opening Microsoft Powerpoint and using the shortcut keystroke, Next step we want to apply one of those common Microsoft templates . we will discuss about how to change Digital Dots template. So you need to apply this template by choosing the Format menu and then choosing Slide Design from the drop down menu. On the right hand side of the screen the Task pane open. Move your mouse pointer over each of the slide designs till you see the one called Digital Dots and click on it once. You should notice this design now applied to your slide.
This will seems to be difficult at the first time and you would thought it will difficult to modify. This template is simply made up of a series of lines and some circles from your Drawing toolbar. Not even a single thing more.
Let’s Start Modification. . .
The master slide controls the look and feel of your presentation so,you must first activate the master slide. Move your cursor to view menu, select Master from the drop down menu and then select Slide Master. In the left hand pane you should see two pictures towards the top of your screen just before the toolbars. These two pictures represent your Title Slide Master and the Slide Master used by the main body of your presentation. The Title Slide Master should be open in front of you and this is the one we will modify. Keep in mind that the rules we do for the Title Slide Master also apply to the other slide masters in your presentation.
What you need to do is to modify the drawing objects in this slide so just click on one of the buttons in the slide that is away from the placeholders. What you should notice is that a square object select marker appears. This tells you that all of the elements you see are a group. So to ungroup these objects, right mouse click and from the shortcut menu choose Grouping and then Ungroup.
You will then see all the individual objects selected in the slide. Simply click away from the select objects and then click on any one object, actually lets change one of the buttons. Once you have selected the button, right mouse click and choose Format Autoshape. You should notice that the Format Autoshape dialog box is similar to the Autoshape dialog box you use for standard drawing object.
Let us change the colour of the object to green by choosing green from the Fill Colour drop down box. To complete your change simply choose the OK button. Now what you should notice is that you have one green button. You could now go through and change every single button and customise the slide master to look the way you require.
You can even go through and customise the background of the Slide master by going to the Format menu and choosing Background from the drop-down menu. When you change the background on the Title Slide Master and the Slide Master, it will be reflected in all the slides in your presentation.