PowerPoint Tips and Templates

Creating new templates from exiting ones in PowerPoint 97/2000/2001/2002

If you're getting sick of the same old templates, use the Slide Master to create new templates from existing ones. In Slide Master view, you can select individual elements that make up each template and move, rotate, recolor, or resize them to create a new template. You can also duplicate the individual parts of a template to create unique-looking templates. For example, you can resize the notebook paper in the Portrait Notebook template and press [Ctrl]D ([command]D on a Mac) to add a second notebook page to your template. Then position the first notebook page on the left half of your new template and the other notebook page on the right half to create two columns (or an open book). With access to all of the existing templates and a little creativity, the possibilities are endless.