Power Point® All?in?One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 2. Creating a Presentation Design for Your Company

In This Chapter

• Creating a template for your design

• Using your company's colors in the design

• Employing your company's fonts

• Designing a template in Slide Master view

• Creating and removing slide layouts

• Creating boilerplate slides to help presenters

• Showing your co‐workers how to make use of your presentation design

Suppose that you were to create a PowerPoint presentation design for your company — one that your co‐workers could use as the starting point for creating their presentations. The design would show the company colors. It would employ the same fonts as the fonts on most of the company's brochures and advertising. It would show the company logo in the corner of every slide and begin on the first slide with the company name and emblem. It would even have boilerplate text that co‐workers could incorporate into their own presentations. A presentation design like that might earn you a raise, a gold star, or at least a pat on the back.

This chapter explains how to design your own presentation and save it as a template so that co‐workers can use it as the starting point for creating their presentations. You find out how to weave your company's colors into the design, create new slide layouts, and include boilerplate content in presentations to help co‐workers get started on their work. You also find instructions for distributing and using design templates.

Creating a Template for Your Presentation Designs

Your first ...