![]() In my mind, you'd start with (or apply) a Contoso template (POTX) to get the colors, backgrounds, fonts, logos, layouts, and maybe even some standard verbiage, but then you'd go to the slide library and pull in a slide that contains the basic content you want. Suppose you need a slide for a Contoso presentation that talks about new device security strategies. What companies should be developing are separate lightweight style templates (the "themes" you mentioned) and slide content libraries that can be easily inserted into any deck you're building. So if a change is needed, the creative team has to update half a dozen templates to keep them all consistent. Plus, each brand-specific template is typically just the same collection of layouts with variations on the backgrounds, logos, and colors. So they typically start by deleting a bunch of that stuff they're not going to use. Consequently, these "templates" are well over 50MB each, and nine times out of ten, they're complete overkill for most users. For example, I work for a media company, and our creative team makes a series of annual templates for our different brands, which include color schemes, stock images, and about 100 different slide layouts for scenarios like showcasing content on different devices, comparing statistics, or creating infographics. so-called "style templates" that really just contain styles and layouts. I think you may really be asking whether there's a better way for an organization to prefabricate slides with stock content vs. In short, it's too "heavy" for casual use. I just don't see a lot of people saving and sharing THMX files, because it's the kind of thing you have to plug into your PowerPoint application to use. But you can also borrow any other presentation's theme just by selecting Design > Themes > Browse for Themes, opening the presentation, and then choosing the theme you want. All PowerPoint presentations contain one or more themes (usually one per master) and any presentation can be saved as a theme for easy sharing and reuse (THMX). A theme is a collection of colors, effects, backgrounds, and fonts that can be applied to any presentation. Technically speaking, a template just has the default action of creating a new presentation with all the content stored inside it instead of opening as a presentation that you can edit.Ī PowerPoint theme is a little more nuanced. ![]() A PowerPoint template is just a PowerPoint presentation file saved with a different extension (POTX vs PPTX). Ok so, templates and themes are actually two sides of the same coin. You can find professional themes with backgrounds and color themes like this for Marketing.This is a great question and I think a good example of the complexity around PowerPoint that needs to be addressed. You may use high quality PowerPoint templates to create your business slides with ready to use themes. If you are a busy business presenter, there is another way to save time in creating your presentations. The Alternate Way To Find Custom Templates However if your presentation is important, you may not want it to look exactly the same as 100s of other presentations created in Microsoft with the same templates. In such cases, the templates provided by Microsoft can help youĬome up with your ‘first draft’ of your presentation fast. You can use tools like Mind maps or brain storming to Presentation, it always helps to step away from your computer and start with a Look like the ‘one downloaded from Microsoft site’. This ensures that your slide deck doesn’t
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