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Create a changeable radial gradient background theme

I’ve mentioned before (here) that you can create a theme in PowerPoint 2007 that changes as you change the theme colors. This gives you lots of flexibility to create a great background in many circumstances. For example, you can change the background to the branding colors of a potential client is you give sales [...]

Get rid of a template

Have you ever wanted to redesign an existing PowerPoint template from scratch? And get rid of that awful template?

One solution is to design your own template and apply that to the presentation. I provide steps for creating a template in another tip.

But what if you don’t want any template at all? [...]

Create your own template

Recently a Web site visitor e-mailed me asking how to create a template. I thought that I would list the steps here. Most templates are simply a slide master saved as a template file. You can then use that template to create new presentations. You can include the following on the slide master/template:

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Creating Multiple Slide “Masters”

PowerPoint 2000 only allows one slide master per presentation. Often that’s a good thing, because the slide master gives coherence to the entire presentation. But sometimes you want to think outside the box. Here’s how to create the look of multiple masters if you haven’t yet upgraded to 2002.

Create a set of [...]

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