Creating a Presentation Based on 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, without any sample text, based on a design template. A design template is a blank presentation with a professionally designed format and color scheme to which you can add slides. You can use one of the design templates that come with PowerPoint, or you can create your own.

After you select a design template, you can choose the layout for each slide, such as a slide with a graph, and then type the text and add any other elements you want. You select a layout by clicking it in the Slide Layout task pane.

In this exercise, you will start a new presentation with a design template ...

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