Saving a Design Template
You can save the design from any PowerPoint presentation as a design template to reuse. When saving a PowerPoint presentation as a design template, you delete all the slides but the title slide and even delete the text and graphics (not background images), leaving only the objects on the Title Master and Slide Master.
Practice: Saving the Presentation as a Design Template
- In Slide Sorter View, press Ctrt+A to select all the slides, and then Ctrl-click Slide 1 to deselect it. All the slides except Slide 1 are selected (you should see a thick border around each of them).
- Press the Delete key to delete all the selected slides so that only Slide 1 remains.
- Return to Normal View and delete all the text (but not the placeholder text boxes) from the slide. This leaves only the title slide and its placeholders, but without any text as shown below. Only the design and Title Master graphics and placeholders remain on the slide.
- Click File, click Save As, and then change the Save as type from Presentation to Design Template.
- Click the Save button. This saves the file as a design template with the file extension .pot.
- Close the presentation and open a new blank presentation by clicking on New
on the toolbar. - Click on the Design button
to display the Slide Design Task Pane with the templates available to use in your new presentation. - Scroll down to find the template you saved.
- Click on the template to apply it.
- Close this presentation without saving it and go to on to the next section on Hiding Slides.
This automatically changes the Save in folder to Templates (see below).
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