A Professional PowerPoint Presentation Begins with a Good Template

A really useful template goes beyond defining a background master, and it makes creating consistent slides easy. If your template has good examples of actual content pages, it will help you to be consistent in how you use fonts, colors, and styles.

A Professional PowerPoint Presentation Begins with a Good Template
A template is an essential component of every professional PowerPoint presentation. Learn the basics of creating a successful template with eSlide Design training.  Our third training module covers the eSlide SEE Principles for creating templates.

To create professional presentations, a PowerPoint template must be first built to define the important style and brand components that will be used throughout the slide deck. Fortunately, PowerPoint’s slide master tool enables you to build templates that serve as the default style that will be used to build out your slides. You will need to create a master for your slides and another master for title pages.

Of course, these are just the basics. The most effective PowerPoint presentations typically include robust templates to help build consistent slides. Elements of a PowerPoint template should include fonts, colors, and styles. When you have multiple people working on slides, having these elements spelled out clearly in a template can be particularly useful. Once a template has been created, it can be applied to clean up inconsistencies in slides.

At eSlide, we build comprehensive templates at the start of a project to ensure that multiple authors working on a single PowerPoint slide deck can compile their slides seamlessly. To learn more about creating professional PowerPoint presentation templates, watch video (#3) above.