Building PowerPointTemplates
Supercharge your PowerPoint® presentations
with custom templates and themes!
Want to create presentations that are more consistent and cost-effective? Presentations that fully reflect your branding? Then dont settle for Microsofts out-of-the-box templates and themes: create your own! In this easy, hands-on guide, two PowerPoint MVPs teach you every skill and technique youll need to build the perfect templatefrom planning and design, through theme building, custom layouts, colors, and deployment.
Echo Swinford and Julie Terberg have distilled their immense PowerPoint knowledge into simple, step-by-step techniques you can use right now, whether youre using PowerPoint 2010 or 2007 for Windows, or PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. Well-built templates are the backbone of great presentationswhether building them for your own use or designing for thousands of users, this book will guide you through the process of creating the most effective templates.
Important Note: Upgrading from older versions of PowerPoint, such as PowerPoint 2003? Your old templates may no longer work. This book will help you make the transition painlessly!
Plan new templates and themes to maximize their business value for years to come
Understand the differences between templates and themes, and how they work together
Make better choices about color, fonts, and slide layouts
Create efficient templates for individual users, teams, and large organizations
Incorporate Notes and Handout Masters into your presentation templates
Provide example slides and default settings that lead to better presentations
Use Microsofts little-known Theme Builder to create effects and background styles
Work around hidden quirks in PowerPoints advanced template and theme features
Echo Swinford, a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP since 2000, has been a featured speaker at the Presentatio Summit (formerly PowerPoint Live) since its inception. She is the expert voice and instructor behindPowerPoint 2010 LiveLessons (Video Training), the author of Fixing PowerPoint Annoyancesand co-author of The PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit.
Julie Terberg is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP and featured speaker at the Presentation Summit. She is the owner of Terberg Design and has been designing presentations since the mid-1980s. She is co-author ofPerfect Medical Presentations. As contributing author for Presentations Magazine, she won awards for her Creative Techniques columns.
