NOTE: To save your template, simply go to Save As, and save it as a .potx file. Once you have that file, if you open it, you'll be creating a new presentation based on that template, and you can start adding content. Don't worry, opening it and editing the presentation doesn't affect the template itself, which stays in a potx format. Hope that helps!
Hi this has been so incredibly useful, thank you so much. I have a question about saving the template, i don't have the option of a .potx file - what else can i save it as???
Hi there, once I edited my template for a presentation and try to export it on PDF, it only saves me one of the slides and not the whole presentation. Could you help me with that and what do I do wrong? Many thanks, cheers xxx
Nailing your PowerPoint template will save you HOURS of unnecessary PPT work in the future (for both you and your team)! Glad this series helped you out. If you ever want to review all the steps, I drafted them out in the following blog post that you can skip around as you need them. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
This 3-part series was wonderful! I learned so much that I wish I would have known 10 years ago. The series is bookmarked and I will be using your channel a lot!
Glad to hear you enjoyed the series so much! You will be 10 steps a head of most people once you are up and running with your own custom template that actually works. If you run into any issues along the way, just leave comments below the videos and I"ll do my best to help you out.
You are very welcome, thanks for the kind comment. If you ever need a refresher (or want to review any of these steps), we wrote them up in the following blog post too if that is easier. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Glad it was helpful! Kudos to you too for taking the time to get your presentations all setup on a properly built template. It will save you HOURS of effort in the future.
Glad you enjoyed the series, and thanks for the comment! Hopefully you are all ready to rock and roll with your own customized template. If you ever need a quick template refresher, I wrote out all of the template steps out in the follow blog post that you can breeze through: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Glad you enjoyed the series so much and THANK YOU for the comment. If you ever need a refresher on this template series, I wrote it out step-by-step in the following blog post (it's big... but it has all of the steps). nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Hi Camille. That was really helpful. I knew slide master could make things much easier but it's not that intuitive. Your explanations were really clear and helpful. Thank you!
You're so welcome! PowerPoint templates are one of the most misunderstood aspects of PowerPoint. So kudos to you for putting in the time to figure them out.
Hi Camille! This was so helpful. I have been doing PPTs for years and can do lots of cool things with PowerPoint but this basic working with templates is a fundamental that I never learned. This is going to save me hours of individually adjusting slide text boxes and fonts and bullets! Whew! Wish I knew this years ago but I'm still going to be a hero now HA! God bless you and yours and thanks so much Sincerely Dave
I'm thrilled to see your message and happy that I can help you out. We all learn PPT by trial and error, so it's normal to have things you don't know, even if you've used the program for decades. Thanks for the note and best of luck to you!
This is great and answers a lot of questions I have about Powerpoint templates. These video are very thorough, and very easy to follow and duplicate. But here's a follow up question; how should a user use a template? By this I mean how should someone use the template in the best way? What shouldn't a user do?
Hi Terry, and thanks for the comment! Great question. The best way to use a template is to fill in the placeholders with your content, whenever applicable, and to use the blank layout whenever you need to stray from a preset layout. That way, your slide elements are always in the right position and with the right formatting. Also make sure to use the proper placeholders for your content. Hope that helps!
Glad it was helpful! If you ever need a quick refresher, you can skim the blog post I created as a companion to this video series here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Glad you enjoyed the series and excited to have you as a subscriber! If you think of anything you want to see on our channel, let us know. We are always looking for new ideas to create content around.
You're so welcome! If you ever need to review these steps, you can check out the following blog post: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thanks Qamar. To save your template, simply go to Save As, and save it as a .potx file. Once you have that file, if you open it, you'll be creating a new presentation based on that template, and you can start adding content. Don't worry, opening it and editing the presentation doesn't affect the template itself, which stays in a potx format. Hope that helps!
Great explanation. I'm not a Mac-user (fortunately), but i tecognised the very few and easy steps to get my template design on the theme list. Thanks a lot!
Glad you enjoyed the series! If you ever want to see these steps in a blog post format (instead of a video), I wrote out all of these steps (which took me forever) in my blog post here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
NOTES: 1. One thing I didn't mention in the video is to make sure you're only re-naming completely new layouts in the Slide Master. I would discourage re-naming one of the default child layouts that comes with a blank PPT document. Why? Because if someone send yous a deck and copy/paste slides from that one into your presentation, PowerPoint might not recognize that the two layouts are the same, and you'll get a whole big mess in your Slide Master. Just a heads up. 2. To save your template, simply go to Save As, and save it as a .potx file. Once you have that file, if you open it, you'll be creating a new presentation based on that template, and you can start adding content. Don't worry, opening it and editing the presentation doesn't affect the template itself, which stays in a potx format.
@Nuts & Bolts Speed Training -- When you created the template for the agenda slide. Do you assume that the agenda will always have the same number of items? Is there to make it variable, so when you create an agenda you can delete the circles if you dont need them?
Thanks Wendy! Glad you enjoyed the series so much, happy fans like you are why we make these videos :). If you ever need a quick refresher on how to create a PowerPoint template, check out the step-by-step blog post (w/ vidoes) here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed the series. If you have any follow up template questions, let me know and I will incorporate them in a future video. Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed the series so much! Thanks for the comment. Like Excel, there are a lot of cool tricks in PowerPoint can take advantage of once you know them :)
Glad you enjoyed the series and thanks for the comment! If you get your template properly setup, you will be light years ahead of most presenters. I also wrote up all of these steps in blog post format if you ever want to quickly review them. See my guide below. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thanks Camille!! Very helpful info. A question: When I make the parent slide and the child slides, and then go to "Normal" view, the text isn't editable. Not sure what I'm doing wrong
Hi Holly! Sorry I'm just seeing this now. I would guess that you've inserted regular text boxes or shapes and typed in text, rather than inserting placeholders. If you put regular text on the Slide Master, it will be considered part of the background. Only placeholders are editable in the Normal View. Hope that helps!
wonderful series. so helpful to watch what's being done and to see corrections live as you go along - see how you fix items. One question: I tried to recreate the agenda slide. Whenever I insert a placeholder and select text, it puts in the entire bullet (first through five) text. How do you make this just text or must it be edited each time? And how to put the "#" inside the circle? I tried inserting text there and got same problem as above and couldn't see the # symbol.
Happy you enjoyed the series. Yes, when you insert a new placeholder with text, it automatically follows the formatting you set for the one on the Parent Slide, which typically has bullet points and several levels of text. You can either change that first placeholder in the parent layout (not recommended), or just delete out the text levels and remove bullets as needed. As for the number sign, I just deleted all the text and bullets and typed in a hash sign. Hope that helps!
Enjoyed this, and found it 80% helpful. Noticably absent was instructions on how to imbed place holders for images, or other items. I think this is a BIG part of custom slide creation. Why was it skipped? Perhaps a part 4 is in order?
Hi Jonathan, and thanks for the suggestion. That's definitely important for building templates. There are a LOT of other aspects and features I'm hoping to add in the future. Glad you found this video I made helpful.
Glad you enjoyed it! I also wrote these steps up in the following blog post if you ever need a quick refresher. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Happy to help! If you ever need a refresher, I wrote all of these steps up in the following blog post too. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thank you so much for your video. It really helped me. But I have got one question. The agenda slide at 8:19. A the circles for the numbers in the Slidemaster? Because if the customer just needs a few of them he can’t delete the other ones. Maybe i don’t get this right :)
Hi Lisa and thanks for your comment. To answer your question - yes and no. In my example, the slide numbers are actually circular placeholders with a fill color that are on the slide master. However, because the circles are the placeholder (and not a shape underneath the placeholder), you can simply delete it in the Normal View. Of course, if you hit Reset on the slide, they will come back. The advantage of doing it this way is that the circle and the number always stay together, and you can delete items you don't need. Hope that helps!
Glad you enjoyed the series, thanks for the comment! If you ever want to skim the steps again, you can check out my blog post here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Really commendable for such an amazing way to teach how to make template slides. Just want to ask one question, how to save this template for future use?
Thanks Zaheer! To save your template, simply go to Save As, and save it as a .potx file. Once you have that file, if you open it, you'll be creating a new presentation based on that template, and you can start adding content. Don't worry, opening it and editing the presentation doesn't affect the template itself, which stays in a potx format. Hope that helps!
Great question. Designer should work as long as you keep the default PowerPoint layouts (title and content) and just add your own template designs to them. That said, if you create custom slide layouts that go beyond the default layouts, Designer will not work for those layouts. Microsoft is also continuing to update the tool, so it might become more robust in the future (fingers crossed). For a list of things that will break designer, you can check out the following blog post: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/powerpoint-design-ideas-not-working/
Yay! So happy to hear this, invictus! There are many hair-pulling aspects of working with presentations, so I'm glad I was able to help with one of them.
Glad you found that helpful! If you ever want to review these steps, check out my blog post below with detailed steps from all three of these videos. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
On the master slide layout, how do you create 2 different text styles for body copy? For example maybe the template needs to include Gotham 14 point black for most body copy, but also an option to included Gotham 16 point blue. And yes I can see that you can edit the text styles for "second level" and "third level" etc, but that is styling for bullet indentation, I need more options for main body copy text style.
Hi Sarah. Great question. When you save your PowerPoint as a template (.potx file), it gets placed in a specific folder on your computer. Try saving a blank presentation as a .potx and you will see in the folder location where it is being placed. You can learn more about accessing and using your templates here: support.office.com/en-us/article/apply-a-template-to-a-new-presentation-d3d4ece5-e965-45eb-9423-c34e61b34616 support.office.com/en-us/article/where-are-my-custom-templates-88ed77ca-df34-49e9-9087-3f01ae296e6e
Hello. The title slide layout (the 2nd one, right after the slide master) is the very first page (cover) of your presentation? The divider slide (the 4th one) is that the cover of a new chapter in the presentation?
@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining Thank you Camille for your answer! Do the guides actually prevent the user to go off them by shrinking the placeholders or is it just a guide for the user and a way to put back in place the placeholders if they move? By the way, congrats for this content! Super useful!
Thanks Dorene, glad you found the series helpful. If you ever need more help with templates, I have a full blown course on designing, building and deploying PowerPoint templates inside our PowerPoint Pro membership that you can check out here if you are interested: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-pro-membership
Very nice, I've always wanted to know how to do that. Unfortunately, I have to watch 3 times and constantly stop the video. However, I got through it. Thank you.
Glad you like them! I wrote up all of these steps too in the following blog post if you ever need them. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
why aren't there any tutorials on how to insert an editable text box at a certain level??? whenever I insert a placeholder text box it automatically shows level 1 type even though I've changed it to two in the master layout. Is this something everyone on youtube avoids talking about????
Sorry you are frustrated with that... unfortunately the placeholders will always start a level 1 (even if you remove them). To get to level 2 you will need to use Increase List Level commands (Home tab, paragraph group). If you want level 2 formatting to start with, you will have to format your level 1 text as your level 2 formatting... but that will spiral throughout your entire template. Hope that helps!
@@WhatWouldVictorDo If there is anything you ever want to see us cover, please let us know. I also turned this video series into a step-by-step blog post if you ever want to review all the steps without watching the videos. You can check it out here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
The only elements you can edit or move in the Normal View are placeholders you setup on your slide master. If you add a rectangle to your slide master, it becomes part of your slide design (and is not editable). My guess is you added a shape or text box on your slide master instead of a content placeholder.
Great series. I learned a lot. Sure wish there was a Part 4 focused on using the template. Saving it correctly and applying it to an existing presentation. Part 5 -How to design a template in portrait orientation and then use it. Seems like the portrait orientation doesn’t stick. Thanks again!
Glad you enjoyed the tutorial and thanks for your comments! If you are ever auditing someone else's template I recommend checking out my other Template Tips video too: ruclips.net/video/W1vvgOI1zAo/видео.html
Glad it was helpful! If you ever want to see all of these steps in a blog post format, check out my blog here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Great videos, you did not mention what to do with the default settings of fx a box or coloured element. Do you not specify them when creating a template?
Hi there, and thanks! As for effects, I typically leave them off because most of my clients prefer a minimalist style and tend to add the effects when they need them, rather than wanting them to appear every time. Hope that helps!
Glad you found the video series helpful! If you ever need resources for your templates, we pulled together our list of favorite ones below (most of them are free too). nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/favorite-powerpoint-resources/
Glad you enjoyed the series. If you ever need more template guidance, I pulled together the following resource for everything PowerPoint template related: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/powerpoint-templates/
Nailing your PowerPoint template will save you HUNDREDS of hours in PowerPoint (no joke). If you ever want to review these steps in blog post format, I wrote them all up here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Hi Camille, these three How-To's are full of excellent info. My company built its PowerPoint template from scratch, not using any of the standard placeholder. As a result, none of the text appears in the Outline view. It might not be a problem except that I am now supporting our UK and EU teams, and I need to change the spellcheck language to UK English. The only way I can see to do that is to select all elements on each slide and change the language. Is there another way? Is there a way to add the custom-added placeholders to the PowerPoint outline text?
Hi Barry! Hm, that's a tricky one... I'm afraid I don't know a better way for using the spellcheck tool in PPT. It's a lot better if you can get all your text into Word or OneNote, since you can select all the text in one go and change the proofing language once. However, what you can do is copy each slide from PPT into OneNote as a picture. Then right-click the picture and select 'Copy text.' Then paste the text into OneNote and you can then run the spellcheck in any language. You can then go back to your presentation and make the changes there manually. Otherwise, you can try using SmartArt to turn your text into bulleted lists like we show here: ruclips.net/video/fgJUOD75Vw8/видео.html And then use those bulleted lists to turn your text back into the Title placeholders through the Outline View like Taylor demoes here: ruclips.net/video/QZTTjN-44KM/видео.html Hope that helps! And hope your company works on creating an actual template for you all in the future!
Glad you enjoyed the series, thanks for the comment! If you use a lot of PowerPoint (on a PC), I recommend checking out our Save 40 series on our website too. You can check it out here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/save-40-hours-in-powerpoint/
Glad it was helpful! You can check out all of the steps in my epic blog post below if you ever want to reference the steps. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
I can not get my custom text (insert placeholder/text) box to appear once I am in Normal View (want to add "presenter name) to title slide. What am I doing wrong? TY!
If you add a new placeholder on your Slide Master to layouts that are already in your deck, you will need to Reset the slides to make those Placeholder appear. Home Tab, then click Reset. Try that and see if that solves your problem.
Thank you for such helpful, informative videos on PPT templates! Is it possible to include two different type styles in a template? For instance, we use Trebuchet for everything, but for sub headings (and other little callouts) we use Trebuchet all caps, different color, wide letter spacing. Tried a few different ways, but haven't been successful at having PPT remember the all caps or letter spacing, even copy/pasting a text box between slides. Any ideas?
Hi Jessica, and thanks for the great questions. The answer includes several things: 1. To have all caps in text placeholders (ie. on the Slide Master), you have to select it and then open the font dialog box (Ctrl + T) and add the caps there. 2. The fonts you set on the Slide Master only affect the placeholders, and not any other shapes/text boxes. If you want to have the text styles apply to those, you'll have to set them exactly how you want them and then right-click them and set them as default, so that any type you insert one, the formatting carries over. Note, this doesn't apply to anything you copy-paste in. To apply formatting to that easily, check out our other tutorial here: Hope that helps! And shameless plug: If you want to learn more about all this, I recommend checking out our amazing course, PowerPoint 3X: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-3x-training-course/
Thank you for the kind comment! We are in the process of making more (for sure!). Make sure to check out our website for more PowerPoint tricks and resources. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/
Hi Michelle! Thanks for the comment and the question! Unfortunately, you can't create a table template (yet! we've petitioned the developers for years about this), but you CAN create table templates. They aren't saved as part of your overall template, but they can be shared with and installed by other users. Simply create the chart the way you want it, and then right-click it and select 'Save as template.' Keep in mind that some of the newest PowerPoint 2016 charts (like treemap) can't be saved as templates as of today. Hope that helps!
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NOTE: To save your template, simply go to Save As, and save it as a .potx file. Once you have that file, if you open it, you'll be creating a new presentation based on that template, and you can start adding content. Don't worry, opening it and editing the presentation doesn't affect the template itself, which stays in a potx format. Hope that helps!
Hi this has been so incredibly useful, thank you so much. I have a question about saving the template, i don't have the option of a .potx file - what else can i save it as???
I don't have the .potx file option.
@@Olu_Segun save it as "PowerPoint Template"
Hi there, once I edited my template for a presentation and try to export it on PDF, it only saves me one of the slides and not the whole presentation. Could you help me with that and what do I do wrong? Many thanks, cheers xxx
What a fantastic 3-part series. You were concise, brief, and yet thorough enough to cover all the essential tricks.
Glad you enjoyed the series! There are a lot of decisions to make, but if you tackle them one-by-one is isn't too bad. Cheers!
I've been through 1-3 and it answered the questions I had.
Well presented and straight to the point.
Many thanks.
Nailing your PowerPoint template will save you HOURS of unnecessary PPT work in the future (for both you and your team)! Glad this series helped you out.
If you ever want to review all the steps, I drafted them out in the following blog post that you can skip around as you need them. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Best PowerPoint tutorial I have seen so far. Thanks!
Aw, thanks Maria! That means a great deal to me, and I'm so happy you enjoyed it.
Went through all the 3 videos. Great content Camille! Thanks.
This 3-part series was wonderful! I learned so much that I wish I would have known 10 years ago. The series is bookmarked and I will be using your channel a lot!
Glad to hear you enjoyed the series so much! You will be 10 steps a head of most people once you are up and running with your own custom template that actually works. If you run into any issues along the way, just leave comments below the videos and I"ll do my best to help you out.
Thank You so much. This page has taught me so much. I am a fresher and didn't know anything and was struggling. I will be forever grateful.
You are very welcome, thanks for the kind comment.
If you ever need a refresher (or want to review any of these steps), we wrote them up in the following blog post too if that is easier. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Spending the summer time to consolidate all kinds of slides into one template to gain some efficiency. Your overview was really helpful. Thank you!!!
Glad it was helpful! Kudos to you too for taking the time to get your presentations all setup on a properly built template. It will save you HOURS of effort in the future.
At first, I didn't understand the purpose of a child in PPT, but now I do, it's a very powerful in-built feature. Thx a lot!
Ah yes! The child layouts are critical for fully designed templates that serve YOU, rather than make your life harder. Cheers!
Thanks Camille. Well timed, clear and VERY instructive. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed the series, and thanks for the comment! Hopefully you are all ready to rock and roll with your own customized template.
If you ever need a quick template refresher, I wrote out all of the template steps out in the follow blog post that you can breeze through: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Best instructional video on powerpoint templates that I have seen. Very easy to follow. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed the series so much and THANK YOU for the comment.
If you ever need a refresher on this template series, I wrote it out step-by-step in the following blog post (it's big... but it has all of the steps). nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thank you for all 3 videos. Super helpful, quick and to the point. Very practical.
Glad you liked them! Good luck with your presentations
Hi Camille. That was really helpful. I knew slide master could make things much easier but it's not that intuitive. Your explanations were really clear and helpful. Thank you!
You're so welcome! PowerPoint templates are one of the most misunderstood aspects of PowerPoint. So kudos to you for putting in the time to figure them out.
Truly an amazing presentation. Very clear and concise.
Thank you for this series! I found it very helpful!
Great stuff. Helped clarify some questions about child slides. Thanks for the great work!
Hi Camille! This was so helpful. I have been doing PPTs for years and can do lots of cool things with PowerPoint but this basic working with templates is a fundamental that I never learned. This is going to save me hours of individually adjusting slide text boxes and fonts and bullets! Whew! Wish I knew this years ago but I'm still going to be a hero now HA! God bless you and yours and thanks so much Sincerely Dave
I'm thrilled to see your message and happy that I can help you out. We all learn PPT by trial and error, so it's normal to have things you don't know, even if you've used the program for decades. Thanks for the note and best of luck to you!
This is great and answers a lot of questions I have about Powerpoint templates. These video are very thorough, and very easy to follow and duplicate. But here's a follow up question; how should a user use a template? By this I mean how should someone use the template in the best way? What shouldn't a user do?
Hi Terry, and thanks for the comment! Great question. The best way to use a template is to fill in the placeholders with your content, whenever applicable, and to use the blank layout whenever you need to stray from a preset layout. That way, your slide elements are always in the right position and with the right formatting. Also make sure to use the proper placeholders for your content. Hope that helps!
Great videos!!!!1 When you watch from the beginning it is really helpful!
Yes... if you don't start from the first video, it can be a bit confusing :). Glad you enjoyed the series.
This has been a really useful & user friendly series. Thank you
Glad it was helpful! If you ever need a quick refresher, you can skim the blog post I created as a companion to this video series here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Awesome. Detailed, quick, great training delivery and transition to different content. I subscribed
Glad you enjoyed the series and excited to have you as a subscriber! If you think of anything you want to see on our channel, let us know. We are always looking for new ideas to create content around.
Very informative and thorough. Thank you Camile!
Thank you co much, Adrienne! Glad to be of service.
so easy to follow and helpful. i learned a lot in just 3 videos
Bianca Romero That’s wonderful to hear! Thanks for the feedback, Bianca, and glad we were able to help!
This Series is really very helpful. Thank you so much.
This was helpful and I picked up a couple smart tips that I will be using. Cheers!
That's great, Irma! Thank you so much and I'm glad you found the video useful. Yes, cheers!
Hi Camille, very helpful. I understand the in's and out's of power point more now then before. Thank you!
You're so welcome! If you ever need to review these steps, you can check out the following blog post: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thank you. Enjoyed the refresh. Great job!
Tips shared are very handy.. Awesome job guys.. Thanks!!!
Hey, thanks Siddarth! Appreciate the feedback and so happy you found the video helpful. Cheers!
This is great! I've learned so much, thank you!
You're so welcome! Glad to hear the series was helpful.
Great learning. One thing that I still need to learn is how to save this template and how to use it for creating presentations later.
Thanks Qamar. To save your template, simply go to Save As, and save it as a .potx file. Once you have that file, if you open it, you'll be creating a new presentation based on that template, and you can start adding content. Don't worry, opening it and editing the presentation doesn't affect the template itself, which stays in a potx format. Hope that helps!
Very helpful. Thank you! I'll be using this to design templates for my students.
Glad to hear it was helpful!
Amazing series...of super help to me!! keep up the good work!!
Glad you found the series helpful, thanks for the comment!
Great explanation. I'm not a Mac-user (fortunately), but i tecognised the very few and easy steps to get my template design on the theme list.
Thanks a lot!
Glad you enjoyed the series! If you ever want to see these steps in a blog post format (instead of a video), I wrote out all of these steps (which took me forever) in my blog post here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Outstanding video. Easy to follow and duplicate. It's just the right instruction I needed. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed the series and thanks for the comment! Good luck with your template.
Amazingly helpful! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Thank you so much for this!! I needed this training more than I realized, so thanks for all the tips, tricks and design ideas.
You're so welcome, Jennifer!
This was so helpful!! Thank you so much for making these videos
Glad you found the series helpful! Getting your template nailed down will save you a TON of time in the future
Best template tutorial out there!
Thank you! I'm glad to hear it helped you out.
NOTES:
1. One thing I didn't mention in the video is to make sure you're only re-naming completely new layouts in the Slide Master. I would discourage re-naming one of the default child layouts that comes with a blank PPT document. Why? Because if someone send yous a deck and copy/paste slides from that one into your presentation, PowerPoint might not recognize that the two layouts are the same, and you'll get a whole big mess in your Slide Master. Just a heads up.
2. To save your template, simply go to Save As, and save it as a .potx file. Once you have that file, if you open it, you'll be creating a new presentation based on that template, and you can start adding content. Don't worry, opening it and editing the presentation doesn't affect the template itself, which stays in a potx format.
Created template in slide master mode, saved as a .PPT and when I re-open I cannot edit slides! Any fixes?
I re-started my computer and now it works. Weird..
@@stacy1458 Sorry to hear that, but glad you solved it! It's a weird world of glitches out there :-)
Thanks a lot for this series, it was a great guideline to help me design a template for an event !!
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-- When you created the template for the agenda slide. Do you assume that the agenda will always have the same number of items? Is there to make it variable, so when you create an agenda you can delete the circles if you dont need them?
Incredibly helpful! Thank you, thank you!
Thanks Wendy! Glad you enjoyed the series so much, happy fans like you are why we make these videos :). If you ever need a quick refresher on how to create a PowerPoint template, check out the step-by-step blog post (w/ vidoes) here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thank You! Your video series is a great help.
Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed the series. If you have any follow up template questions, let me know and I will incorporate them in a future video. Cheers!
Wow, so helpful... I've been working years in Excel, but this is the first exposure I've had to quality powerpoint designs. Thank you!!!
Glad you enjoyed the series so much! Thanks for the comment. Like Excel, there are a lot of cool tricks in PowerPoint can take advantage of once you know them :)
Very very helpful... I was looking to make custom template and this helped me a lot
Hey Sadaf, happy to hear it! Thanks so much for the comment and glad you found the video helpful. Cheers!
Hello Camille...Great Tutorial. love the basics of it
Glad you enjoyed the series and thanks for the comment! If you get your template properly setup, you will be light years ahead of most presenters.
I also wrote up all of these steps in blog post format if you ever want to quickly review them. See my guide below.
nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Camille, another great presentation!
Thanks, Jim!
Thanks Camille. This is very helpful.
I liked the style and pace of this presentation
Satish Kumar Dommeti Thank you very much, Satish!
Thanks Camille!! Very helpful info. A question: When I make the parent slide and the child slides, and then go to "Normal" view, the text isn't editable. Not sure what I'm doing wrong
Hi Holly! Sorry I'm just seeing this now. I would guess that you've inserted regular text boxes or shapes and typed in text, rather than inserting placeholders. If you put regular text on the Slide Master, it will be considered part of the background. Only placeholders are editable in the Normal View. Hope that helps!
thanks thanks and again thanks. your tutorial has been truly helpful! you saved me!!
wonderful series. so helpful to watch what's being done and to see corrections live as you go along - see how you fix items. One question: I tried to recreate the agenda slide. Whenever I insert a placeholder and select text, it puts in the entire bullet (first through five) text. How do you make this just text or must it be edited each time? And how to put the "#" inside the circle? I tried inserting text there and got same problem as above and couldn't see the # symbol.
Happy you enjoyed the series. Yes, when you insert a new placeholder with text, it automatically follows the formatting you set for the one on the Parent Slide, which typically has bullet points and several levels of text. You can either change that first placeholder in the parent layout (not recommended), or just delete out the text levels and remove bullets as needed. As for the number sign, I just deleted all the text and bullets and typed in a hash sign. Hope that helps!
Great set of tutorials. Thanks so much!
Enjoyed this, and found it 80% helpful. Noticably absent was instructions on how to imbed place holders for images, or other items. I think this is a BIG part of custom slide creation. Why was it skipped? Perhaps a part 4 is in order?
Hi Jonathan, and thanks for the suggestion. That's definitely important for building templates. There are a LOT of other aspects and features I'm hoping to add in the future. Glad you found this video I made helpful.
Great series! Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! I also wrote these steps up in the following blog post if you ever need a quick refresher. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Very well done 🙂 Keep up the great work.
Thank you! Will do!
Fantastic, thank you. Master slide view always scared me before!!
Happy to help! If you ever need a refresher, I wrote all of these steps up in the following blog post too. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Thank you so much for your video. It really helped me. But I have got one question. The agenda slide at 8:19. A the circles for the numbers in the Slidemaster? Because if the customer just needs a few of them he can’t delete the other ones. Maybe i don’t get this right :)
Hi Lisa and thanks for your comment. To answer your question - yes and no. In my example, the slide numbers are actually circular placeholders with a fill color that are on the slide master. However, because the circles are the placeholder (and not a shape underneath the placeholder), you can simply delete it in the Normal View. Of course, if you hit Reset on the slide, they will come back. The advantage of doing it this way is that the circle and the number always stay together, and you can delete items you don't need. Hope that helps!
Really professional, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the series, thanks for the comment! If you ever want to skim the steps again, you can check out my blog post here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Great presentation.
Thank you kindly!
Thank you for your effort. I really enjoyed creating mine following your instructions. It turned out pretty amazing. Thnx again
A Dash Oh that makes me so happy to hear! Thanks for the comment and have a great day.
Really commendable for such an amazing way to teach how to make template slides. Just want to ask one question, how to save this template for future use?
Thanks Zaheer! To save your template, simply go to Save As, and save it as a .potx file. Once you have that file, if you open it, you'll be creating a new presentation based on that template, and you can start adding content. Don't worry, opening it and editing the presentation doesn't affect the template itself, which stays in a potx format. Hope that helps!
@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining Thanks for a detailed reply. Really Helpful
@@zaheerabbas0989 My pleasure!
Thanks a lot. Just a quick question. Does powerpoint designer work well when using a custom template? I am using 365
Great question. Designer should work as long as you keep the default PowerPoint layouts (title and content) and just add your own template designs to them. That said, if you create custom slide layouts that go beyond the default layouts, Designer will not work for those layouts. Microsoft is also continuing to update the tool, so it might become more robust in the future (fingers crossed).
For a list of things that will break designer, you can check out the following blog post: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/powerpoint-design-ideas-not-working/
I was pulling my hair out trying to create a new template. Thank you for showing me how!
Yay! So happy to hear this, invictus! There are many hair-pulling aspects of working with presentations, so I'm glad I was able to help with one of them.
Hats Off - Appreciate a perfect presentation Tutorial
You are most welcome, glad you enjoyed the series.
very informative. Thanks Camilla.
Glad you found that helpful! If you ever want to review these steps, check out my blog post below with detailed steps from all three of these videos. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
On the master slide layout, how do you create 2 different text styles for body copy? For example maybe the template needs to include Gotham 14 point black for most body copy, but also an option to included Gotham 16 point blue. And yes I can see that you can edit the text styles for "second level" and "third level" etc, but that is styling for bullet indentation, I need more options for main body copy text style.
Hi Joseph - unfortunately PPT only allows for one header style and one body style. You would need 2 separate Masters in order to acheive that.
Great BUT .... how do I open a new presentation and apply this template????
Hi Sarah. Great question. When you save your PowerPoint as a template (.potx file), it gets placed in a specific folder on your computer. Try saving a blank presentation as a .potx and you will see in the folder location where it is being placed.
You can learn more about accessing and using your templates here:
support.office.com/en-us/article/apply-a-template-to-a-new-presentation-d3d4ece5-e965-45eb-9423-c34e61b34616
support.office.com/en-us/article/where-are-my-custom-templates-88ed77ca-df34-49e9-9087-3f01ae296e6e
Hello. The title slide layout (the 2nd one, right after the slide master) is the very first page (cover) of your presentation? The divider slide (the 4th one) is that the cover of a new chapter in the presentation?
Hi Cristina - yes, it's the cover of a new chapter or section.
@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining Thank you Camille for your answer! Do the guides actually prevent the user to go off them by shrinking the placeholders or is it just a guide for the user and a way to put back in place the placeholders if they move? By the way, congrats for this content! Super useful!
Thanks! Great Job!
Glad you liked it!
Very helpful, thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks a lot Camille!!
Glad you enjoyed the series!
Thank you, great training!
Thanks Dorene, glad you found the series helpful. If you ever need more help with templates, I have a full blown course on designing, building and deploying PowerPoint templates inside our PowerPoint Pro membership that you can check out here if you are interested: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-pro-membership
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Great job! Very helpful.
Thank you so much, Kim!
Hi Camille, very useful videos, that helped me a lot to create my own template.
You're very welcome!
Thank you for your work, Camille :)
You're welcome. Thanks for the awesome comment.
Very nice, I've always wanted to know how to do that. Unfortunately, I have to watch 3 times and constantly stop the video. However, I got through it. Thank you.
Glad you stuck with it! Creating a PowerPoint template is not easy, but it's worth it.
Awesome presentations!
Glad you like them! I wrote up all of these steps too in the following blog post if you ever need them. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
why aren't there any tutorials on how to insert an editable text box at a certain level??? whenever I insert a placeholder text box it automatically shows level 1 type even though I've changed it to two in the master layout. Is this something everyone on youtube avoids talking about????
Sorry you are frustrated with that... unfortunately the placeholders will always start a level 1 (even if you remove them). To get to level 2 you will need to use Increase List Level commands (Home tab, paragraph group). If you want level 2 formatting to start with, you will have to format your level 1 text as your level 2 formatting... but that will spiral throughout your entire template. Hope that helps!
@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining ty so much for the quick response! U r the best!
@@WhatWouldVictorDo If there is anything you ever want to see us cover, please let us know. I also turned this video series into a step-by-step blog post if you ever want to review all the steps without watching the videos. You can check it out here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
So helpful, thank you.
I have a question:
Why I can’t move or make any change on objects in the normal view?
The only elements you can edit or move in the Normal View are placeholders you setup on your slide master. If you add a rectangle to your slide master, it becomes part of your slide design (and is not editable). My guess is you added a shape or text box on your slide master instead of a content placeholder.
Thank you
Great series. I learned a lot. Sure wish there was a Part 4 focused on using the template. Saving it correctly and applying it to an existing presentation. Part 5 -How to design a template in portrait orientation and then use it. Seems like the portrait orientation doesn’t stick. Thanks again!
Thank you! I'll put this in my queue for new tutorials. Could you elaborate about how the portrait orientation doesn't stick?
Great. The best presentation that I have seen on master page. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed the series so much and kudos to you for doing the reach to nail down your Slide Master. Good luck with your presentations.
Hi camille really nice tutorial thanks, please continue putting more...
Glad you enjoyed the tutorial and thanks for your comments! If you are ever auditing someone else's template I recommend checking out my other Template Tips video too: ruclips.net/video/W1vvgOI1zAo/видео.html
Very Helpful... Thanks!
Glad it was helpful! If you ever want to see all of these steps in a blog post format, check out my blog here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining Will do!
Fantastic tutorial thank you
Glad you enjoyed the series, thanks for checking it out!
Great videos, you did not mention what to do with the default settings of fx a box or coloured element. Do you not specify them when creating a template?
Hi there, and thanks! As for effects, I typically leave them off because most of my clients prefer a minimalist style and tend to add the effects when they need them, rather than wanting them to appear every time. Hope that helps!
Many thank for this video
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much.
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed the tutorials. Good luck with your presentations.
Thank you so much. You have saved me so much time and frustration!
Glad you found the video series helpful! If you ever need resources for your templates, we pulled together our list of favorite ones below (most of them are free too). nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/favorite-powerpoint-resources/
super clear and helpful! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the series. If you ever need more template guidance, I pulled together the following resource for everything PowerPoint template related: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/powerpoint-templates/
Really nice, thanks!
Thanks for the series, now I know so many things I’ve been unable to do previously. Easy to follow.
Nailing your PowerPoint template will save you HUNDREDS of hours in PowerPoint (no joke).
If you ever want to review these steps in blog post format, I wrote them all up here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
Hi Camille, these three How-To's are full of excellent info. My company built its PowerPoint template from scratch, not using any of the standard placeholder. As a result, none of the text appears in the Outline view. It might not be a problem except that I am now supporting our UK and EU teams, and I need to change the spellcheck language to UK English. The only way I can see to do that is to select all elements on each slide and change the language. Is there another way? Is there a way to add the custom-added placeholders to the PowerPoint outline text?
Hi Barry! Hm, that's a tricky one... I'm afraid I don't know a better way for using the spellcheck tool in PPT. It's a lot better if you can get all your text into Word or OneNote, since you can select all the text in one go and change the proofing language once.
However, what you can do is copy each slide from PPT into OneNote as a picture. Then right-click the picture and select 'Copy text.' Then paste the text into OneNote and you can then run the spellcheck in any language.
You can then go back to your presentation and make the changes there manually.
Otherwise, you can try using SmartArt to turn your text into bulleted lists like we show here: ruclips.net/video/fgJUOD75Vw8/видео.html
And then use those bulleted lists to turn your text back into the Title placeholders through the Outline View like Taylor demoes here: ruclips.net/video/QZTTjN-44KM/видео.html
Hope that helps! And hope your company works on creating an actual template for you all in the future!
Awesome three videos. Thank You for sharing
Glad you enjoyed the series, thanks for the comment! If you use a lot of PowerPoint (on a PC), I recommend checking out our Save 40 series on our website too. You can check it out here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/save-40-hours-in-powerpoint/
That was so so helpful, thank you!
Glad it was helpful! You can check out all of the steps in my epic blog post below if you ever want to reference the steps. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/
I can not get my custom text (insert placeholder/text) box to appear once I am in Normal View (want to add "presenter name) to title slide. What am I doing wrong? TY!
If you add a new placeholder on your Slide Master to layouts that are already in your deck, you will need to Reset the slides to make those Placeholder appear. Home Tab, then click Reset. Try that and see if that solves your problem.
Thank you for such helpful, informative videos on PPT templates!
Is it possible to include two different type styles in a template? For instance, we use Trebuchet for everything, but for sub headings (and other little callouts) we use Trebuchet all caps, different color, wide letter spacing.
Tried a few different ways, but haven't been successful at having PPT remember the all caps or letter spacing, even copy/pasting a text box between slides.
Any ideas?
Hi Jessica, and thanks for the great questions. The answer includes several things:
1. To have all caps in text placeholders (ie. on the Slide Master), you have to select it and then open the font dialog box (Ctrl + T) and add the caps there.
2. The fonts you set on the Slide Master only affect the placeholders, and not any other shapes/text boxes. If you want to have the text styles apply to those, you'll have to set them exactly how you want them and then right-click them and set them as default, so that any type you insert one, the formatting carries over. Note, this doesn't apply to anything you copy-paste in. To apply formatting to that easily, check out our other tutorial here:
Hope that helps! And shameless plug: If you want to learn more about all this, I recommend checking out our amazing course, PowerPoint 3X: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-3x-training-course/
@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining Thank you!
Very informative. Now I know how to hide, instead of deleting on the Slide Master.
Thanks Celia! Appreciate the comment and so happy to know that you're now able to better utilize the Slide Master! Cheers!
I found your videos very informative. Please make more..
Thank you for the kind comment! We are in the process of making more (for sure!). Make sure to check out our website for more PowerPoint tricks and resources. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/
Very helpful and clear! I'm wondering how to create a table and/or chart in a "master style" that can be edited by another user in the template.
Hi Michelle! Thanks for the comment and the question! Unfortunately, you can't create a table template (yet! we've petitioned the developers for years about this), but you CAN create table templates. They aren't saved as part of your overall template, but they can be shared with and installed by other users. Simply create the chart the way you want it, and then right-click it and select 'Save as template.' Keep in mind that some of the newest PowerPoint 2016 charts (like treemap) can't be saved as templates as of today. Hope that helps!
This was very useful
Glad you enjoyed the series! Thanks for the comment.