by Echo Swinford | Jan 7, 2021 | Google Slides, Masters and Layouts, PowerPoint, Themes and Templates
I’ve been building Google Slides templates for clients for quite a few years, but I seem to be getting more requests for them lately. There are differences between PowerPoint and Google Slides that affect certain graphics and features. I think that a lot of this...
by Echo Swinford | Jul 2, 2014 | PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2007, PPT 2010, Themes and Templates
PowerPoint templates get a bad rap. That’s because most PowerPoint templates are pretty bad. They’re often ugly and they’re rarely built right. The thing is, it doesn’t have to be that way. A professionally designed and expertly crafted...
by Echo Swinford | Mar 13, 2013 | PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2010, Themes and Templates
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...
by Echo Swinford | Feb 8, 2013 | PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2010, Themes and Templates, XML editing
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...
by Echo Swinford | Jun 20, 2012 | PPT 2010, Themes and Templates
Where to Save Your Office 2007 and 2010 Themes Installed themes When you install Office 2007, a set of default themes is installed to this folder on both Windows Vista and Windows XP: C:\\Program Files\Microsoft \OfficeDocument\ Themes 12. The installed themes show up...
by Echo Swinford | Jan 1, 2011 | PPT 2007, PPT 2010, Themes and Templates
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...
