What is a pre designed presentation that includes custom formatting and designs?

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Themes and templates help you create content that looks attractive and consistent while avoiding lots of manual formatting.

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What is a pre designed presentation that includes custom formatting and designs?

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What is a PowerPoint theme?

A theme is a predefined set of colors, fonts, and visual effects that you apply to your slides for a unified, professional look.

Using a theme gives your presentation a harmonious appearance with minimal effort. For example:

  • When you add graphics (tables, shapes, and so on) to your slides, PowerPoint applies theme colors that are compatible with other slide elements.

  • Dark-colored text is shown on a light background (and vice versa), so that contrast is strong for ease of reading.

Here are four different themes applied to the same slide:

To choose a theme for your presentation

PowerPoint offers several preset themes. They are on the Design tab of the Ribbon on the left side.

  1. Open a slide. On the Design tab, point at a Theme thumbnail to get a preview of how it would affect the look of your slide.

  2. To see the full gallery of themes, click the More button:

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  3. When you find a theme you want, click its thumbnail to apply it to all slides in your presentation.

To customize a theme, see Create your own theme in PowerPoint.

What is a PowerPoint template?

A template is a theme plus some content for a specific purpose—such as a sales presentation, a business plan, or a classroom lesson.

So a template has design elements that work together (colors, fonts, backgrounds, effects) along with sample slides and boilerplate content that you augment to tell your story.

You can create your own custom templates and store them, reuse them, and share them with others. See Create and save a PowerPoint template.

You can also find hundreds of different types of free templates for PowerPoint that you can apply to your presentation:

  Get pre-built PowerPoint templates at templates.office.com  

Templates.Office.com also has templates for other Office apps. Here are some examples of the free templates available there:

Agendas

Award certificates

Brochures

Budgets

Business cards

Calendars

Slides containing content

Contracts

Databases

Design slides

Diagrams

Envelopes

Expense reports

Fax sheets

Flyers

Common forms

Gift certificates

Greeting cards

Inventories

Invitations

Invoices

Labels

Letters

Lists

Memos

Minutes

Newsletters

Plans

Planners

Postcards

Purchase orders

Receipts

Reports

Resumes

Schedules

Statements

Stationary

Timelines

Time sheets

Here is an example of a one-slide template for an award certificate:

What is a pre designed presentation that includes custom formatting and designs?

A template like this can include:

1 Subject-specific content, such as "Certificate of Achievement," "Soccer," and the soccer ball image. Generally this text or content is only editable from the slide master.

2 Background formatting, such as pictures, texture, gradient or solid fill color, and transparency. This example shows the light blue solid fill background.

3 Color, fonts, effects (3-D, lines, fills, shadows, etc.), and theme design elements (such as the color and gradient effects inside the word Soccer).

4 Text placeholders that allow people to enter unique information to customize the slide for their needs, such as "Player's name," "Name of coach," "Date of presentation," and any variable, such as the year.

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See Also

Download free, pre-built templates

Create your own theme in PowerPoint

Create and save a PowerPoint template

Need more help?

Which pre designed presentation that includes custom formatting and design?

Ans. A template is a predesigned presentation that includes custom formatting and design. It can save a lot of time and effort when starting a new presentation.

Which is the pre designed to apply on slides?

1) Theme: A theme is a predetermined combination of colors, fonts, and visual effects that you apply to your slides to give them a consistent, expert appearance.

What is used to design a presentation?

Answer. Microsoft PowerPoint has three main views: normal view, slide sorter view, and slide show view. Normal View is the main editing view, which is used to write and design a presentation.

What is design template PowerPoint?

A PowerPoint template is a pattern or blueprint of a slide or group of slides that you save as a . potx file. Templates can contain layouts, colors, fonts, effects, background styles, and even content. You can create your own custom templates and store them, reuse them, and share them with others.