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How to Set a Default Template in PowerPoint 2013

Posted by Echo Swinford on March 13, 2013 in: ppt2010, ppt2013, Themes and Templates, Tutorials
How to Set a Default Template in PowerPoint 2013

In previous versions of PowerPoint, you could save a default template so that when you started PowerPoint or a new, blank presentation, you’d get the template of your choice rather than the default (blank white) Office template. This can be very helpful if you are required to use a corporate template, for example. (Here are instructions to save a default template in PowerPoint 2010 and prior.) It’s not quite as simple Read More

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A NEW BOOK! (and an update on XML editors)

Posted by Echo Swinford on February 8, 2013 in: ppt2010, ppt2013, Themes and Templates, Tutorials, XML Editing
A NEW BOOK! (and an update on XML editors)

My latest book, Building PowerPoint Templates: Step by Step with the Experts, was released last October. (Get it here or here.) Co-author Julie Terberg and I spent the better part of a year working on it, and it’s exciting to see all our hard work finally come to fruition. One of the chapters I did covers editing PowerPoint’s XML. I swear, that was the hardest chapter for me to write – Read More

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Choose a slide design for your presentation

Posted by Echo Swinford on July 6, 2012 in: ppt2007, ppt2010, Themes and Templates, Tutorials
Choose a slide design for your presentation

Lately I’ve been seeing lots of questions around the web asking how to change a presentation’s template. Or is it a theme? Or maybe it’s a slide master? There seems to be a lot of confusion around this. The truth is, it doesn’t really matter if you apply a template or a theme – they’re pretty much the same thing. The only real difference is a template contains content and a Read More

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