How much time do your employees and co-workers spend creating and updating PowerPoints every day? Is your PowerPoint template correctly defined or does it cause a lot of daily headache for users, contributing to organizational inefficiency? These are the five important parts of an efficient PowerPoint template.

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2. Is your PowerPoint template
inefficient?
How much time do your employees
and co-workers spend creating and
updating PowerPoints every day?
Is your PowerPoint template
correctly defined or does it cause a
lot of daily headache for users,
contributing to organizational
inefficiency?
These are the five important parts of
an efficient PowerPoint template.

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What is a template?

4. TEMPLATE
[noun] : a preset format for a document
or file, used so that the format does not
have to be recreated each time it is used.

5. A PowerPoint TEMPLATE
[noun] : a PowerPoint template file with
a defined Master slide, theme fonts,
them effects, a custom color scheme
and formatted slide layouts.

6. THE 5 PARTS OF A
PowerPoint TEMPLATE
FONTS COLORS SLIDELAYOUTSEFFECTSMASTER

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THE
MASTER
TEMPLATE

8. The most important part of the
template is the Master.

9. The top Master slide is
where most formatting
should be done to be
automatically applied to
all slide layouts.

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THEME
FONTS

12. A template needs two
theme fonts.
One for headings.
One for body text.
Click to read our guide to PowerPoint fonts!

13. The theme fonts will automatically
define text in any placeholder, graph,
table, SmartArt, or textbox.

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THEME
COLORS

17. A template needs ten
theme colors.
4 text/background colors.
6 accent colors.

18. The theme colors will
automatically fill any graph,
table, SmartArt or shape.
Click to read our guide to PowerPoint colors!

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THEME
EFFECTS

22. A template has an
cffect theme.

23. The theme effects will automatically
influence shapes, tables, SmartArt
and charts.
Click to read our guide to PowerPoint effects!

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CUSTOM
SLIDE
LAYOUTS

27. A template needs defined
slide layouts.

28. PowerPoint comes with nine
standard slide layouts but you can (and
should) add custom slide layouts that
fit your organization’s needs.

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The final template

32. The PowerPoint template
with its five parts
makes up the template
theme and should be
distributed as a
.potx file.

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