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Creating a presentation from a template or theme

Creating a presentation from a template or theme

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Creating a presentation from a template or theme

- Sometimes this plain, boring, blank canvas can be very overwhelming. It's daunting to have to see this big white slide and not just fill it with content but with an eye-pleasing design. For this, PowerPoint gives us themes. Themes are ready-made presentation designs with pre-built graphics, borders and fonts. There's no pre-built content but the content placeholders are all there. To create a presentation using a theme on the home ribbon tab, click file and select new on the left hand side. This is the screen in which we created a blank presentation in the last video, but now let's choose a theme. PowerPoint 2016 gives us about 20 themes to look for. And you can even look online for more. Find one that you think is going to give you the best push to get started. I'm going to choose retrospect. There's a few things that we can see when we choose a theme that we like. The first thing is we can get some choices of color variants. These are pre-built color variants and I will show you…

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