The theme effects influences fills, lines, shadows, bevels and special effects of graphic objects created in PowerPoint. PowerPoint comes with a set of theme effects that can be applied to a file or a template. We’ve seen great, beautiful designed “templates” using corporate colors for the background graphics but in which the PowerPoint color theme has not been defined with these corporate colors.ĬLICK TO READ MORE ABOUT TEMPLATE COLORS 4. This means that even though you might have added background graphics such as a logo to your slide Master in your corporate red color, if this red color has not been added to your slide template’s theme colors, the user of the template will not have access to that red color for any other graphics. If you don’t define your custom colors for your template, your created graphics in PowerPoint (graphs, SmartArt, tables) will use the default Microsoft colors. Defined Theme ColorsĪ PowerPoint file comes with 10 colors defined (+2 colors for hyperlinks). However, if the template uses the theme fonts setting correctly – your presentation will stay brand compliant using your corporate font (which most likely is not the standard Calibri) throughout your presentation.ĬLICK TO READ MORE ABOUT FONTS 3. If the theme fonts have not been defined or used for text in all placeholders, any text the user adds to the slides (like a floating text box) or any slides imported to the template will use Calibri, as that is still the theme font for the template. The default font setting in PowerPoint (from 2010 and later) is Calibri. The theme fonts that have been defined for a presentation can be seen at the top of the font menu on the Home tab. The theme fonts automatically define the text in any placeholder, graph, text box, SmartArt etc in a presentation. PowerPoint comes with the capability to define theme fonts – a font for headings and a font for the body text. An incorrectly defined Master slide will make a PowerPoint more time consuming and less efficient to use for users. Unfortunately, we see so many “template files” with an empty Master slide, where all formatting has been done on the individual slide layouts. And importing slides from outside your organization will become a hassle. If these things are not defined on the slide Master, it has to be done manually on each slide layout and the template has lost the capability to truly rule the content added, which is really the beauty of using a template. This is where you would add a logo or any graphics you want repeated on all slides, set the background for all the individual slide layouts, decide if your headlines should be all capitalized, what your bullets should look like, the spacing of text, where your footers and slide numbers should be placed etc. The Master slide is the top slide you see when you open the presentation’s Slide Master View. The most important part of a PowerPoint template is the Master slide. What are the five crucial parts of a correctly defined PowerPoint template? If any of these four aspects of a template is not defined, your PowerPoint template might be a time thief as well as the cause of less appealing slide content in your organization. A correctly defined PowerPoint template file needs a defined Master slide, theme fonts, a custom color scheme and formatted slide layouts. Is your PowerPoint template correctly defined or does it cause a lot of daily headaches for users, contributing to organizational inefficiency?Ī PowerPoint template is a silent and powerful engine that works in the background, making it easy to create good looking and brand compliant slides in a timely manner. How much time do your employees and co-workers spend creating and updating PowerPoints every day? With millions of users of PowerPoint, a lot of time in the business world is spent creating and using PowerPoints.
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