That are just applying a look to an existing presentation. This is key in that templates have created that you can see a brand new name for a brand new set of slides. I actually have slides that I use over and over again. We’ll go ahead and create it and what you’re going to see here is that in addition to having all the colors above. I’m going to select one that I use to create my quick tip powerpoint presentations. We’ll do file do new and in here we’re going to choose a custom template and in here. And templates are used to create brand new presentations watch this. They apply all the same colors and fonts, but you do this when creating a brand new slide deck. Templates are similar to themes but they are more. Let’s go back into the same location with themes are will do the drop-down list and In there there’s a session called Custom you see I have a variety of custom themes, including one that we’ve built in a previous power-up training video on how to create slide masters. If you go to design you’re going to see all the built-in Microsoft themes that I drag my mouse across you’ll see that they are applying the changes to the colors and the font so the background the margins and much more you’re used to seeing these what you may have not seen is the use of a customized theme. Themes are much more but you’ve used them already. Okay let’s see that action Here’s an existing presentation We’re going to go to a second slide and we’ll see that a theme is just basically applying fonts and backgrounds.

When do I use one versus the other? And as a bonus what kind of cover how are you can take both themes and templates and save them and share them provide consistency across your workgroup or your whole organization. Today, I’d like to discuss what our PowerPoint themes and templates. Hi, this is Les with another Power Up Training quick tip. Rough Video Transcript of “PowerPoint Theme vs Template: The Differences |”

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