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Changing Master Templates in PowerPoint

powerpointHave you ever wanted a specific background or design theme for a PowerPoint presentation, but couldn’t find any in the templates that came with the program? Are you intimidated by the thought of trying to make changes to a template?

Good news! Making changes is not difficult. And, once you know how, you can easily create your own custom template that coordinates with the content of your presentation.

Benefits of Changing a Master Template

  • By changing the master, all of the slides in your presentation will reflect those changes. You don’t have to make them on every slide.
  • Your personalized master template is easily available for future use. It can be used for multiple presentations, thus saving you time in the future.
  • You get a customized PowerPoint with YOUR choice of fonts, font size, bullets, colors, etc.
  • The design can better reflect the content of your presentation instead of just using a generic theme provided by Microsoft.

What does this mean for professors? You can have a design theme that supports your content to use in lectures, department or college meetings, or presentations at conferences.

Click here to watch a tutorial video demonstrating how to change a PowerPoint background.

Click here to watch a tutorial video demonstrating how to make changes to a master slide.