How To Create A PowerPoint Template: Custom Slide Templates (3 of 3)
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- Learn how to create a PowerPoint template, nailing down your custom slides and slide templates so that everyone can fill in your template correctly. #PowerPointTemplates #PowerPoint #Training
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
0:48 Formatting your title slide layout
1:52 How to hide background graphics on your slide
3:23 Adding a design element to your title slide
4:26 Removing footers from your title slide
5:26 Formatting your title and content placeholder
7:07 Formatting your other child slide layouts (Custom Slides)
9:48 Making your slide background not editable
10:07 Setting your paragraph spacing
10:20 Setting animations and transitions
10:50 Stress-testing your template before you send it out
11:07 A closer look at your blank layout
11:35 Adjusting your prompt text
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In this third PowerPoint template tutorial series (part 3 of 3), you'll learn how to edit the Child Slide Master Layouts to create your own custom slides and slide templates that everyone can use.
This involves formatting the individual slide layouts to fit the needs of each type of slide youâll be including in your presentation; as well as how to add custom layouts to your template for frequently used slide types, such as team bios, agendas, case studies, etc. Youâll also get some design ideas for creating title slides and main content slides.
The child slides in your slide master are the key to designing your own custom slides so that everyone can quickly fill them in when using your template.
Along the way, youâll also learn:
- How to remove background graphics on the Slide Master so that theyâre hidden on a child layout
- How to make the slide background an existing picture you your Slide Master
- Why you canât edit the guides on a child layout
- How to draw in a perfectly straight line in PowerPoint, using the Shift key
- Why you want to keep your Parent Slide Master as bare as possible
- How to add new custom child layouts to your Slide Master
- How to rename your custom child layouts in your Slide Master
- Best practices for creating custom PowerPoint templates from scratch
- How to add prompt text to help the template user properly fill in each layout
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NOTE: To save your template, simply go to Save As, and save it as a .potx file. Once you have that file, if you open it, you'll be creating a new presentation based on that template, and you can start adding content. Don't worry, opening it and editing the presentation doesn't affect the template itself, which stays in a potx format. Hope that helps!
Hi this has been so incredibly useful, thank you so much. I have a question about saving the template, i don't have the option of a .potx file - what else can i save it as???
I don't have the .potx file option.
@@Olu_Segun save it as "PowerPoint Template"
Hi there, once I edited my template for a presentation and try to export it on PDF, it only saves me one of the slides and not the whole presentation. Could you help me with that and what do I do wrong? Many thanks, cheers xxx
What a fantastic 3-part series. You were concise, brief, and yet thorough enough to cover all the essential tricks.
Glad you enjoyed the series! There are a lot of decisions to make, but if you tackle them one-by-one is isn't too bad. Cheers!
This 3-part series was wonderful! I learned so much that I wish I would have known 10 years ago. The series is bookmarked and I will be using your channel a lot!
Glad to hear you enjoyed the series so much! You will be 10 steps a head of most people once you are up and running with your own custom template that actually works. If you run into any issues along the way, just leave comments below the videos and I"ll do my best to help you out.
I've been through 1-3 and it answered the questions I had.
Well presented and straight to the point.
Many thanks.
Nailing your PowerPoint template will save you HOURS of unnecessary PPT work in the future (for both you and your team)! Glad this series helped you out.
If you ever want to review all the steps, I drafted them out in the following blog post that you can skip around as you need them. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Went through all the 3 videos. Great content Camille! Thanks.
Wow, so helpful... I've been working years in Excel, but this is the first exposure I've had to quality powerpoint designs. Thank you!!!
Glad you enjoyed the series so much! Thanks for the comment. Like Excel, there are a lot of cool tricks in PowerPoint can take advantage of once you know them :)
Spending the summer time to consolidate all kinds of slides into one template to gain some efficiency. Your overview was really helpful. Thank you!!!
Glad it was helpful! Kudos to you too for taking the time to get your presentations all setup on a properly built template. It will save you HOURS of effort in the future.
Thank you so much for this!! I needed this training more than I realized, so thanks for all the tips, tricks and design ideas.
You're so welcome, Jennifer!
Best PowerPoint tutorial I have seen so far. Thanks!
Aw, thanks Maria! That means a great deal to me, and I'm so happy you enjoyed it.
Thank you for this series! I found it very helpful!
Great stuff. Helped clarify some questions about child slides. Thanks for the great work!
Thank You so much. This page has taught me so much. I am a fresher and didn't know anything and was struggling. I will be forever grateful.
You are very welcome, thanks for the kind comment.
If you ever need a refresher (or want to review any of these steps), we wrote them up in the following blog post too if that is easier. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thanks Camille. Well timed, clear and VERY instructive. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed the series, and thanks for the comment! Hopefully you are all ready to rock and roll with your own customized template.
If you ever need a quick template refresher, I wrote out all of the template steps out in the follow blog post that you can breeze through: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thank you for all 3 videos. Super helpful, quick and to the point. Very practical.
Glad you liked them! Good luck with your presentations
Awesome. Detailed, quick, great training delivery and transition to different content. I subscribed
Glad you enjoyed the series and excited to have you as a subscriber! If you think of anything you want to see on our channel, let us know. We are always looking for new ideas to create content around.
Hi Camille. That was really helpful. I knew slide master could make things much easier but it's not that intuitive. Your explanations were really clear and helpful. Thank you!
You're so welcome! PowerPoint templates are one of the most misunderstood aspects of PowerPoint. So kudos to you for putting in the time to figure them out.
At first, I didn't understand the purpose of a child in PPT, but now I do, it's a very powerful in-built feature. Thx a lot!
Ah yes! The child layouts are critical for fully designed templates that serve YOU, rather than make your life harder. Cheers!
This is great and answers a lot of questions I have about Powerpoint templates. These video are very thorough, and very easy to follow and duplicate. But here's a follow up question; how should a user use a template? By this I mean how should someone use the template in the best way? What shouldn't a user do?
Hi Terry, and thanks for the comment! Great question. The best way to use a template is to fill in the placeholders with your content, whenever applicable, and to use the blank layout whenever you need to stray from a preset layout. That way, your slide elements are always in the right position and with the right formatting. Also make sure to use the proper placeholders for your content. Hope that helps!
Best instructional video on powerpoint templates that I have seen. Very easy to follow. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed the series so much and THANK YOU for the comment.
If you ever need a refresher on this template series, I wrote it out step-by-step in the following blog post (it's big... but it has all of the steps). nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Hi Camille, very helpful. I understand the in's and out's of power point more now then before. Thank you!
You're so welcome! If you ever need to review these steps, you can check out the following blog post: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thank you. Enjoyed the refresh. Great job!
Hi Camille! This was so helpful. I have been doing PPTs for years and can do lots of cool things with PowerPoint but this basic working with templates is a fundamental that I never learned. This is going to save me hours of individually adjusting slide text boxes and fonts and bullets! Whew! Wish I knew this years ago but I'm still going to be a hero now HA! God bless you and yours and thanks so much Sincerely Dave
I'm thrilled to see your message and happy that I can help you out. We all learn PPT by trial and error, so it's normal to have things you don't know, even if you've used the program for decades. Thanks for the note and best of luck to you!
Thank you for your effort. I really enjoyed creating mine following your instructions. It turned out pretty amazing. Thnx again
A Dash Oh that makes me so happy to hear! Thanks for the comment and have a great day.
This has been a really useful & user friendly series. Thank you
Glad it was helpful! If you ever need a quick refresher, you can skim the blog post I created as a companion to this video series here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Very informative and thorough. Thank you Camile!
Thank you co much, Adrienne! Glad to be of service.
Incredibly helpful! Thank you, thank you!
Thanks Wendy! Glad you enjoyed the series so much, happy fans like you are why we make these videos :). If you ever need a quick refresher on how to create a PowerPoint template, check out the step-by-step blog post (w/ vidoes) here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
This Series is really very helpful. Thank you so much.
Great explanation. I'm not a Mac-user (fortunately), but i tecognised the very few and easy steps to get my template design on the theme list.
Thanks a lot!
Glad you enjoyed the series! If you ever want to see these steps in a blog post format (instead of a video), I wrote out all of these steps (which took me forever) in my blog post here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Truly an amazing presentation. Very clear and concise.
Great set of tutorials. Thanks so much!
Thank You! Your video series is a great help.
Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed the series. If you have any follow up template questions, let me know and I will incorporate them in a future video. Cheers!
Outstanding video. Easy to follow and duplicate. It's just the right instruction I needed. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed the series and thanks for the comment! Good luck with your template.
This was helpful and I picked up a couple smart tips that I will be using. Cheers!
That's great, Irma! Thank you so much and I'm glad you found the video useful. Yes, cheers!
Great videos!!!!1 When you watch from the beginning it is really helpful!
Yes... if you don't start from the first video, it can be a bit confusing :). Glad you enjoyed the series.
This is great! I've learned so much, thank you!
You're so welcome! Glad to hear the series was helpful.
Tips shared are very handy.. Awesome job guys.. Thanks!!!
Hey, thanks Siddarth! Appreciate the feedback and so happy you found the video helpful. Cheers!
Fantastic, thank you. Master slide view always scared me before!!
Happy to help! If you ever need a refresher, I wrote all of these steps up in the following blog post too. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Amazing series...of super help to me!! keep up the good work!!
Glad you found the series helpful, thanks for the comment!
Very very helpful... I was looking to make custom template and this helped me a lot
Hey Sadaf, happy to hear it! Thanks so much for the comment and glad you found the video helpful. Cheers!
so easy to follow and helpful. i learned a lot in just 3 videos
Bianca Romero Thatâs wonderful to hear! Thanks for the feedback, Bianca, and glad we were able to help!
thanks thanks and again thanks. your tutorial has been truly helpful! you saved me!!
Camille, another great presentation!
Thanks, Jim!
Enjoyed this, and found it 80% helpful. Noticably absent was instructions on how to imbed place holders for images, or other items. I think this is a BIG part of custom slide creation. Why was it skipped? Perhaps a part 4 is in order?
Hi Jonathan, and thanks for the suggestion. That's definitely important for building templates. There are a LOT of other aspects and features I'm hoping to add in the future. Glad you found this video I made helpful.
Thanks Camille. This is very helpful.
Best template tutorial out there!
Thank you! I'm glad to hear it helped you out.
Hello Camille...Great Tutorial. love the basics of it
Glad you enjoyed the series and thanks for the comment! If you get your template properly setup, you will be light years ahead of most presenters.
I also wrote up all of these steps in blog post format if you ever want to quickly review them. See my guide below.
nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thank you so much. You have saved me so much time and frustration!
Glad you found the video series helpful! If you ever need resources for your templates, we pulled together our list of favorite ones below (most of them are free too). nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/favorite-powerpoint-resources/
Really nice, thanks!
This was so helpful!! Thank you so much for making these videos
Glad you found the series helpful! Getting your template nailed down will save you a TON of time in the future
I liked the style and pace of this presentation
Satish Kumar Dommeti Thank you very much, Satish!
Thanks for the series, now I know so many things Iâve been unable to do previously. Easy to follow.
Nailing your PowerPoint template will save you HUNDREDS of hours in PowerPoint (no joke).
If you ever want to review these steps in blog post format, I wrote them all up here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Very informative presentation. Thanks for uploading.
That was so so helpful, thank you!
Glad it was helpful! You can check out all of the steps in my epic blog post below if you ever want to reference the steps. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
super clear and helpful! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the series. If you ever need more template guidance, I pulled together the following resource for everything PowerPoint template related: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/powerpoint-templates/
Really professional, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the series, thanks for the comment! If you ever want to skim the steps again, you can check out my blog post here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thanks! Great Job!
Glad you liked it!
Awesome presentations!
Glad you like them! I wrote up all of these steps too in the following blog post if you ever need them. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Great job! Very helpful.
Thank you so much, Kim!
Great series! Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! I also wrote these steps up in the following blog post if you ever need a quick refresher. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Awesome series! Thank you for sharing. :)
Thanks Mike! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Hi camille really nice tutorial thanks, please continue putting more...
Glad you enjoyed the tutorial and thanks for your comments! If you are ever auditing someone else's template I recommend checking out my other Template Tips video too: czcams.com/video/W1vvgOI1zAo/video.html
That you so much! This is an awesome tutorial!
Thanks, Daniel! So happy to hear it.
Thank you, great training!
Thanks Dorene, glad you found the series helpful. If you ever need more help with templates, I have a full blown course on designing, building and deploying PowerPoint templates inside our PowerPoint Pro membership that you can check out here if you are interested: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-pro-membership
Hello Camille! Thank you for the tutorials! How are you allowing users of the template to edit in the font you selected? Especially Gotham? I love the font, but I have never had success including it in a PowerPoint deck.
Thank you very much, Sara! To make sure your fonts cary through in your template, you need to save your custom fonts in the theme (go to Design > Variants > Fonts).
Gotham should be pretty safe, but you do need to be very careful with custom fonts, especially from PC to Mac (or vice versa). The only 100% safe way to use fonts is to go with the most common ones (usually boring but safe!).
Some people recommend embedding fonts but I DON'T - you can see why here in this video: czcams.com/video/W1vvgOI1zAo/video.html
Hope that helps!
Great presentation.
Thank you kindly!
Hats Off - Appreciate a perfect presentation Tutorial
You are most welcome, glad you enjoyed the series.
Great. The best presentation that I have seen on master page. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed the series so much and kudos to you for doing the reach to nail down your Slide Master. Good luck with your presentations.
Thanks a lot Camille!!
Glad you enjoyed the series!
Great learning. One thing that I still need to learn is how to save this template and how to use it for creating presentations later.
Thanks Qamar. To save your template, simply go to Save As, and save it as a .potx file. Once you have that file, if you open it, you'll be creating a new presentation based on that template, and you can start adding content. Don't worry, opening it and editing the presentation doesn't affect the template itself, which stays in a potx format. Hope that helps!
Very well done đ Keep up the great work.
Thank you! Will do!
Awesome three videos. Thank You for sharing
Glad you enjoyed the series, thanks for the comment! If you use a lot of PowerPoint (on a PC), I recommend checking out our Save 40 series on our website too. You can check it out here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/save-40-hours-in-powerpoint/
Very helpful, thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you !!
Thank you for your work, Camille :)
You're welcome. Thanks for the awesome comment.
Hi Camille, very useful videos, that helped me a lot to create my own template.
You're very welcome!
the best of the best thank you so much I have been looking and looking and finally found your videos thank you so much
Glad you found the series helpful and thanks for the comment!
Fantastic tutorial thank you
Glad you enjoyed the series, thanks for checking it out!
Useful indeed
I found your videos very informative. Please make more..
Thank you for the kind comment! We are in the process of making more (for sure!). Make sure to check out our website for more PowerPoint tricks and resources. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/
Thank you so much for the amazing tutorial in creating templates it helps me a lot. By the way, do I have to optimize the size of the file?
The best way is to compress the images. You can do that by selecting an image and then going to Picture Format > Compress Pictures.
Very Helpful... Thanks!
Glad it was helpful! If you ever want to see all of these steps in a blog post format, check out my blog here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining Will do!
very informative. Thanks Camilla.
Glad you found that helpful! If you ever want to review these steps, check out my blog post below with detailed steps from all three of these videos. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
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I really like the agenda template that can double as a bullet point template too...
I was pulling my hair out trying to create a new template. Thank you for showing me how!
Yay! So happy to hear this, invictus! There are many hair-pulling aspects of working with presentations, so I'm glad I was able to help with one of them.
Very helpful! Thank you :)
Glad you enjoyed the template series! If you ever need a quick refresher, I listed out all of the steps in the blog post here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thank you so much.
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed the tutorials. Good luck with your presentations.
Great series. I learned a lot. Sure wish there was a Part 4 focused on using the template. Saving it correctly and applying it to an existing presentation. Part 5 -How to design a template in portrait orientation and then use it. Seems like the portrait orientation doesnât stick. Thanks again!
Thank you! I'll put this in my queue for new tutorials. Could you elaborate about how the portrait orientation doesn't stick?
Thanks a lot
Many thank for this video
Glad it was helpful!
Really useful
Thank you. đ
Great information - thanks. I would be useful if you could show us what some of the layouts are like with lorem text - but probably the best I have seen
Great suggestion, Seamus and thank you. I'm considering creating a follow-up video, so I will add this item for consideration.
Thank you
Very informative. Now I know how to hide, instead of deleting on the Slide Master.
Thanks Celia! Appreciate the comment and so happy to know that you're now able to better utilize the Slide Master! Cheers!
Really commendable for such an amazing way to teach how to make template slides. Just want to ask one question, how to save this template for future use?
Thanks Zaheer! To save your template, simply go to Save As, and save it as a .potx file. Once you have that file, if you open it, you'll be creating a new presentation based on that template, and you can start adding content. Don't worry, opening it and editing the presentation doesn't affect the template itself, which stays in a potx format. Hope that helps!
@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining Thanks for a detailed reply. Really Helpful
@@zaheerabbas0989 My pleasure!
Thank you very much!
Glad you enjoyed the series. Thanks for the comment.
Very nice, I've always wanted to know how to do that. Unfortunately, I have to watch 3 times and constantly stop the video. However, I got through it. Thank you.
Glad you stuck with it! Creating a PowerPoint template is not easy, but it's worth it.
wow great JOB
Glad you enjoyed the tutorial (it took me FOREVER to create). Thanks for the comment.
If you ever want to see the steps laid out in blog post format, you can check them out here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/