Use
Templates
What
You'll Learn: PowerPoint
offers you a way of changing the entire look and
feel of your presentation in one simple step. By
selecting an alternative to the default template
that you are currently using, you can change everything
in your slide show all at once... Don't
worry, you can always return to the slide's original
look and feel whenever you want by reversing the
process laid out in this page.
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Make
sure that your have a file open; choose a slide.
Then, click on Format on the main menu. |
A
drop down menu appears. |
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Select Slide
Design from the drop down menu |
The Slide
Design dialog box appears. This gives
you a wide range of slide formats from which
to choose. By moving the slider on the right-hand
of the dialog, many more slide thumbnails are
revealed. By clicking on any one of these samples,
you'll change the entire look and feel of your
slide. |
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You
have two options open to you when selecting
the design to use on your slides. First,
you can change all of your slides to the
new design. Alternatively, you can change
only the slide that is shown on the work
surface.
Usually,
you'll want to change all the slides in
a presentation. We'll show you how to do
that in Step #3. We'll also show you how
to change only the single slide in Step
#4. |
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In
this Step, we'll show you how to change all the
slides in your presentation at once. First review
the designs on the dialog box by using the slider;
as you place your mouse over a particular design,
you'll see that the name of the design is shown
in a small popup ox. Then find a design you like,
then select it by double clicking on it. |
In
our example, as shown in Figure 1, we've selected
a design called Clouds.pot. (Ignore the .pot part;
that's the file's extension, and has no bearing
on what we're doing here.)
Upon double-clicking
the thumbnail, the look and feel are transferred
to the present slide, as well as all the slide
thumbnails on the left hand-side of the screen,
as displayed in Figure 2.
Don't
like what you see? press the Ctrl-Z key
combination once to remove the design and return
your slides to their original look and feel. |
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Figure
1. Placing your mouse over the design thumbnail
makes the name of the design appear. Double-click
on it, and the entire set of slides are redesigned. |
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Figure
2. Once you double-click a design, all your
slides change. In this graphic, the selected
slide on the work surface, plus all the additional
slide thumbnails (representing all your other
slides), become redesigned.
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Perhaps
you want only one slide of your slide set to be redesigned.
To do this, choose the slide to be effected, placing
it on the work surface. Then, click on the down arrow
just to the right of the design thumbnail; doing
so makes the drop down menu drop down. From this
menu, choose "Apply to Selected
Slide." |
The
design will be applied to only the slide on the
work surface.
Alternatively,
you could have chosen to to apply the design
to all the slides by clicking on the Apply
to All Slides option. Doing so
would change all the other slides as well.
Don't
like what you see? press the Ctrl-Z key
combination once to remove the design and return
your slides to their original look and feel. |
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