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Thursday, April 26, 2018 – Permalink –

'Tis the Template

Free Holiday templates

This can be considered a jumping off point for many holiday themed templates.
Here are some sources for holiday backgrounds and clipart for PowerPoint. These sites also have material for the rest of the year.

Template Ready:
Christmas FREE PowerPoint Template

Powered Templates

Brainy Betty:
Christmas and Holiday Themed Templates

Sonia Coleman:
Free PowerPoint Templates

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Labels: General, Graphics, Presentation, Reference, Templates, Tips, Tutorials

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Monday, January 22, 2018 – Permalink –

Background Templates

Fresh material

After seeing a few PowerPoint presentations, all of the backgrounds and graphics included with Office, start to look alike.

Luckily, there are generous folk who supply fresh material.

Sonia Coleman is one of the best.

She presents over 200 templates for download.

Free PowerPoint Templates

Explore the rest of her site including the Gallery section

Also see:

PoweredTemplates.com

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Labels: Customize, General, Instructional, Reference, Templates, Tips, Tutorials

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Tuesday, September 19, 2017 – Permalink –

Great Collection

Examples and ideas

The experts show you how they have developed some pretty spectacular animations and designs using PowerPoint out of the box.

"PowerPoint Heaven is a website providing PowerPoint showcase, artworks, PowerPoint games, animation templates, PowerPoint animations and tutorials on animating Microsoft PowerPoint."

PPTHeaven.mvps.org

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Friday, May 12, 2017 – Permalink –

More More Free Templates

Clean, professional layouts

Besides some intriguing enterprise PowerPoint solutions, PresentationPoint.com has some free designs that you can download and adapt to your own uses.

One of the designs is a timer:

PresentationPoint.com

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Wednesday, September 28, 2016 – Permalink –

Where's the Template?

Find and/change storage spots

Describes the different template categories and the locations of templates in 2007 & 2010 Office programs. Also describes the registry settings that control where to find your custom templates.

Support.Microsoft.com

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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 – Permalink –

More Free Templates

Three dozen more

Sometimes it takes someone else's example of a PowerPoint show to stir your own imagination.

Graphicsland is offering a collection of 36 templates for PowerPoint. The templates are saved as .pot files & are compatible with all versions of PowerPoint. The collection is free of charge & is available now for downloading.
To see a printable preview & to go to the download area:

Free Templates

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Tuesday, June 14, 2016 – Permalink –

Cleanup Your Presentation

Design suggestions

Julie Terberg is a contributing editor for Presentations Magazine.
There are a number of PDF copies of her columns, plus PowerPoint shows that can be downloaded at Terbergdesign.com

Some topics discussed include PNG format, exploring print options, animation tools, and bringing a company logo to life.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 – Permalink –

Make Your Own Templates

Fit any need

You are not dependent on microsoft for PowerPoint templates. You can create your own for use on special occasions or to share with others.

What is in a Custom Template?

Slide background

Slide Layout- which placeholders appear and their positions

Color Scheme

Formatting of placeholders

Formatting of text and bullets

Slide transition

Placeholder animations

Jan's Web Work & Experiments:
Custom Templates

Indezine.com:
Creating PowerPoint Templates

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Monday, November 23, 2015 – Permalink –

Can We Serve Multiple Masters?

Dual Masters and more schemes

Earlier versions of PowerPoint were restricted to only one master design scheme per show. We strained to get around that by linking shows and pasting backgrounds over the designs.

PowerPoint 2002+ changed that by allowing more than one design scheme.

A PowerPoint master with the first name of "Echo", runs a nice tutorial site named EchosVoice.com.

She has written a step-by-step tutorial to create Multiple Masters for PPT 2002 and beyond.

Makes you want to dance. (Echo's own image)

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Wednesday, August 12, 2015 – Permalink –

PowerPoint Magic

Tutorials and downloads

Glenna Raye Shaw is the PowerPoint Magician.

Here are some of the files that can be downloaded from her site:

PowerPak for PowerPoint Demo

the shareware version of PowerPak, an innovative collection of PowerPoint lesson and game templates.

PowerPak for PowerPoint Sampler

a larger file, but includes a fun custom show as well as the shareware.

Control the Heat Mouse Over Template (ppt file)

a PowerPoint template with a thermometer which can raise the temperature by moving the mouse over it.

Time Machine Mouse Over Template

ia PowerPoint template with a clock that can be moved forward and backward in time by moving the mouse over it.

Shadow Techniques

shows some fun techniques with shadows in PowerPoint.

Origins of PowerPoint

the illustrated version of Austin Meyer's irreverent story.

Mouse Over Magic

shows stupid mouse tricks.

Abracadabra.mid

music to go with the stupid mouse tricks.

Downloads and Resources

Vizinsight Blog

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Labels: Animation, Customize, Formats, General, Graphics, Reference, Templates, Tips, Tutorials

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Monday, August 03, 2015 – Permalink –

Free Templates

Can't have too many

Microsoft provides a lot of free templates for Office applications.

For PowerPoint here are one hundred that can be feely used:

Free PowerPoint Templates

BTW: here's a Blog:
Brainy Betty PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

Also see:
Sonia Coleman:
Free PowerPoint Templates

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Sunday, May 03, 2015 – Permalink –

Brainy Betty

Templates, Graphics and more

"Very simply, you can download anything on this site for personal or business or educational use. You can share these downloads with others as long as you give it to them and not "sell" it to them.

Tell others where you got the downloads.

Brainy Betty

What you can expect to find on this site:

Hundreds of free PowerPoint templates

Certificate templates

Free Flash PowerPoint Slides

3D Graphics

Dingbats

Buttons and lines

An awesome icon collection

Free Flash and Swish

Sound clips

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Labels: General, Reference, Shortcuts, Templates, Tips, Tutorials

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