If you are using a picture for your slide background, the fastest way to make it fit on your slide is to crop it using the Aspect Ratio Crop tool. To do that, simply:. To learn more about the different cropping options in PowerPoint, see our guide here.
You can simply drag the image manually to fit the entire slide. NOTE: In my example in the video above, I actually duplicate the background image so that I have 2 smaller images that I place next to each other, in order to make the pattern smaller.
And then I make sure to group the two images together so that they function as a unit. To learn all about grouping in PowerPoint, check out our guide here. And because the image is set on the Parent Slide like this, by default it will show up as all of the slide backgrounds within my PowerPoint template. After resizing your background image, you will want to send it back behind the other Parent Slide elements.
This will send the background behind the text as shown in the picture below. This makes all the Parent Slide content placeholders visible again on your slide.
This will make it hard for people to read my slides during a presentation. In the steps below, I will use the old method non-Office subscription for creating a transparent background in PowerPoint. If you have an Office subscription , you can see the brand new way to create a transparent image, see our guide here for details. Using the gradient fill options described above, your rectangle should look like the one above, with some of your text bleeding through the rectangle.
As a final step, right-click your gradient rectangle and select Send to Back and then Send Backward enough times 5 times so that it sits behind your placeholders but on top of your pattern background image. At this stage, notice that because we properly added these design elements to our Parent Slide, they automatically populate on all the Child Slides. This shows you the power of creating a PowerPoint template — you add a design element in one place, and it shows up throughout your presentation.
Consider guides as the grid on your slide that is used to consistently align your objects. To add a new guide, simply start dragging an existing one, and then hit the Ctrl key on your keyboard before you let go. There are a number of ways in which you can format your placeholders and there is no right or wrong formatting.
You set these on your Slide Master so that they are locked when people fill them in when building their PowerPoint slides using your template. To learn all about the Outline View in PowerPoint and how to use it, read our article here.
You can change the font size, alignment, size, position, etc. Before you start formatting your placeholders, make sure you are on your Parent Slide. We will focus on formatting your Child Slide layouts later.
Next, adjust the size and position of your title placeholder. To do that, simply select the placeholder and:. There is no right size and position for your title. Make sure the placeholder is big enough to fit the typical scenario.
Unless you have a specific reason to do otherwise, I recommend that you choose Bottom for your vertical text alignment.
That way your title text will always stay perfectly aligned at the bottom, from slide to slide. This helps avoid jumping titles for any slides that have more than one line of text. On the flip side, if you plan on having short titles for all your slides no more than one line , I recommend using the Middle text alignment instead.
Regardless of what you decide, make sure you test different title lengths to see what will work best for your PowerPoint template. Adjusting your guides like this will make aligning objects on your slides much easier as your Smart Guides will automatically snap them together.
That will turn them on. Alternatively, you can go up to the View tab in the Ribbon and select Guides inside the Show area. The Text placeholder on your Parent Slide is special in that it will dictate the default formatting of all the other content placeholders in your presentation except for the Title placeholder and the Footer placeholders.
Setting the default here on the Parent Slide is important because it makes it a lot easier to make fast and consistent changes to swathes of content down the road.
Later in this template series, I will show you how to format away from this default behavior on the Child Slides. But first you want to set its default formatting. To do that:. In this step, you need to align the horizontal and the vertical guides to that they align with the Text placeholder. The next step is to change the font size of the different levels of text inside the placeholder. Next, you have to adjust the indent of the bulleted lists so that it appears in all your slide layouts.
You can adjust the bullets as per your personal preference. Based on your knowledge of how someone is going to be using this template, you might decide to add more or less space as required. You can see their book on templates here. This inevitably happens with templates and you want to be prepared for it! In the Size section, verify that the height of the placeholders is the same.
Remember to also add new guides around these placeholders to help keep them in place. Note: For the slide number placeholder, you can also add symbols as I have here such as a bar and two spaces , in order to create a visual break from the other placeholders.
The next thing is to format the date and time footer placeholder. You can choose any kind of formatting you like. The final default placeholder to format on the Parent Slide here is the footer text placeholder. This way, it is next to the logo and the text inserted will extend out towards the right.
While all the default placeholders have now been set up and formatted correctly, there is still one element that you can add on the Parent Slide of your Slide Master; and that is a logo. You can also use this same technique to add a watermark to your PowerPoint slides. To see the different ways to do this, read our guide here.
The Child Slides represent the blueprints for each type of slide included in your template. By default, your Child Slide layouts will inherit your Parent Slide formatting, but as you will see, you can tweak these layouts to meet your individual needs. The key to designing good Child Slide layouts is to keep in mind how the end-user is likely going to insert content on each type of slide. You want to make it easy for everyone to quickly fill them in when using your template.
The first step is to edit the Title slide layout. This layout is designed to be filled in with the title and general information about your presentation. Typically, its looks slightly different than the rest of the layouts. The first thing we need to do when formatting our Title slide layout is to think about the background.
Typically, a Title slide will have a slightly different background from the regular Content slides. However, because the background has been set on the Parent Slide, this means that you will have to deviate from it. The first method for hiding anything on the background graphics such as the logo, background patterns, design elements, etc. To do that, with the rectangle still selected, go to the Shape Format tab on the Ribbon, click on the Send Backward dropdown and select Send to Back.
This includes and background images or patterns, logos, and other design elements. You can easily make them visible again by unchecking the Hide Background Graphics checkbox. Visually appealing templates offer PowerPoint slides that allow you to balance imagery with text in ways that are interesting, polished and attractive. In the above presentation, simple graphics, photos and text are used sparingly so as not to overwhelm the audience with too much information.
At the same time, colors are vibrant, images are appealing and branding carries through from start to finish. Instead, search for templates with a master slide and multiple layout options.
Most importantly, choose a template that is editable, with the ability to change to suit your needs. Unlike your ex. Either one of these design templates would be a good catch for your PowerPoint presentation.
Both allow for customization of layout and design on interior pages, while still maintaining common colors and themes throughout. Other considerations—where will you put your images? How are the slides designed to support both graphics and text? Make sure it actually works for you.
Multiple layout options make this a great match that supports a variety of graphical, photographic and text elements. Look for PowerPoint templates that offer a wide palette of options. For example, ones that match your brand colors. A correctly defined PowerPoint template file needs a defined Master slide, theme fonts, a custom color scheme and formatted slide layouts. If any of these four aspects of a template is not defined, your PowerPoint template might be a time thief as well as the cause of less appealing slide content in your organization.
The most important part of a PowerPoint template is the Master slide. This is where you would add a logo or any graphics you want repeated on all slides, set the background for all the individual slide layouts, decide if your headlines should be all capitalized, what your bullets should look like, the spacing of text, where your footers and slide numbers should be placed etc.
If these things are not defined on the slide Master, it has to be done manually on each slide layout and the template has lost the capability to truly rule the content added, which is really the beauty of using a template. And importing slides from outside your organization will become a hassle. An incorrectly defined Master slide will make a PowerPoint more time consuming and less efficient to use for users. PowerPoint comes with the capability to define theme fonts — a font for headings and a font for the body text.
The theme fonts automatically define the text in any placeholder, graph, text box, SmartArt etc in a presentation. The theme fonts that have been defined for a presentation can be seen at the top of the font menu on the Home tab.
Slide titles move off the page, chart colors change, and bullets turn into… are those smiley faces?? If everyone starts from the same template, everything should come together smoothly. Before you begin work on a large presentation, make sure that the template is set.
You can use this list to help with that. And just like your car before a long trip — it pays to get the template checked by a slide professional… like the ones at eSlide. Search for:. Get social with eSlide! Facebook Youtube. Now What?
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