Creating a Presentation Based on a Ready-Made Design

When you don’t need help with the content of a presentation but you do need help with its design, you can start a new presentation based on a design template. A design template is a blank presentation with formatting, a color scheme, and sometimes graphics already applied to it. You can base a presentation on a design template from Office Online, or you can design your own presentation and save it as a template.

When you create a presentation based on a design template, PowerPoint supplies a title slide and leaves it to you to add the other slides you need. You add a slide by clicking the Add Slide button in the Slides group on the Home tab. This technique adds a new slide with the default layout ...

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