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What is a design template?
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design template is a shell of a slide show presentation. You can choose
one of a large assortment of templates, each with their own pre-defined
background graphics, text style, and bullet style. A template helps you
quickly design a professional-looking presentation without being a graphic
designer.
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When creating
a new document, if you select the Design Template option (as
described in Lesson 1) and click OK, the following dialog box
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Go ahead and click once on some of the templates to get an idea of your choices. After you become proficient at PowerPoint, you can even create your own slideshow templates! (Note: You may notice that some previews simply say, “Click OK to install additional templates and create a new file.” This means that the template you selected wasn’t copied to your hard disk when PowerPoint was initially installed on your computer. If you insert the original CD and click OK, that template will be installed for you.) After browsing
through the template previews, select a template you like and
click OK (or simply double-click the icon). Now you have chosen
a specific template from which to make your slides. |
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How
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At this point,
PowerPoint will automatically create the first slide in your presentation
for you. To do so, it will ask you what slide layout, or “AutoLayout,”
you want to use for your first slide. The dialog box looks like this: |
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Each template comes with a series of different slide layouts. The different layouts have the same overall look and feel, but allow you to choose the appropriate slide format for the information you need to present. Each slide can have a different layout, and yet the overall presentation has a sense of unity. The types of slide layouts you can choose from include:
to name a few. What the choices will look like is self-explanatory from the thumbnail pictures in the dialog box. Click on the upper-left-hand slide layout (the Title Slide), then click OK. Your first slide will now appear. |
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