*Note - Templates are downloaded in.ZIP archives and contain PowerPoint Templates (.POT/.POTX formats). All templates are also compatible with Office for Mac, Google Docs, Open Office, keynote, SlideRocket and many other 3rd party applications that recognize the.POT/.POTX file type. We show you how to save a template to your desktop and then open it up in Microsoft PowerPoint.

When you open a blank PowerPoint presentation, your theme will be set to the default Office theme, and therefore, the color palette will be set to the default Office theme colors. To see the color palette that your presentation is using you can go to either of two places: • In the Normal View, go to the Design tab, find the ‘Variants’ area and select the bottom-facing ‘More’ arrow. There, hover your mouse over ‘Colors.’ • In the Slide Master View, go to the Slide Master tab and click on the ‘Colors’ dropdown. The first set of four colors defines the colors of the slide backgrounds and of the text, and the second set (the six accent colors) defines the colors for shapes, tables, charts, SmartArt, etc. When you’re creating a new color palette, you want to make sure that you stick to the color types indicated in the palette, because this is how PowerPoint will assign colors to your presentation. That means that you want to make sure that colors 1 and 3 are light, and colors 2 and 4 are dark, and the accent colors reflect the colors you want to assign to objects.

The order is important. As says, “most organizations set their main brand color as the Accent 1 color. However, when you use SmartArt, for some reason the Accent 1 color is not used. So if you do a lot of SmartArt and want the main brand color to be used, avoid setting it to Accent 1. Custom shapes and lines are automatically using the Accent 1 color.” One suggestion for this, is to make Accent 1 and Accent 2 be the same brand color.

Warning: Be careful with using custom fonts in a template There is a very big risk when you use custom fonts in a template that the resulting presentations that are created from the template will not function properly on another person’s computer. Learn more about this in our YouTube tutorial, about. Unless you know EXACTLY who else is going to use the template and know for a fact that they have the same custom fonts installed on their computer, I would avoid custom fonts entirely. There’s nothing more embarrassing and frustrating than having a beautifully made template completely warp out on youand you’re stuck with fixing it or settling for ugly slides. And while it is possible to embed custom fonts into your presentation, doing so comes with a few problems, so I rarely recommend it.

The next thing to determine is the kinds of effects you want to have automatically appear on various objects. The effect theme in your template will specify the fills (such as gradients and textures), lines, shadows, and bevels for your shapes, lines, SmartArt graphics, tables and charts.The effect theme chosen not only tells what style to assign to the object in the presentation, but it determines what options users have in the presets within the Shape Styles, the SmartArt Styles and Table Styles.

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Warning: Keep it simple There’s a trend of moving away from effects (PowerPoint 2010 had 40 of them, whereas 2016 only has 15). This is a hint to avoid going crazy with effects. Also, as, “some intense effects make fills lighter, which can make text harder to read.