9. Creating Your Own Presentation Elements

Chapter at a Glance

In this chapter, you will learn to:
	Create theme colors and fonts.
	View and change a presentation's master slides.
	Create a slide layout.
	Save a custom design template.

In other chapters of this book, you have worked with predefined color schemes and font sets, applied ready-made slide layouts, and based a new presentation on a design template that comes with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. In addition to using these built-in elements, you can create your own color schemes, font sets, layouts, and templates.

Why would you want to create your own elements rather than using those that come with PowerPoint? If your organization has established a corporate or brand image through the use of a logo, a color scheme, or other visual cues, you might be required to incorporate that branding into presentations that will be seen outside the organization. Even if branding is not an issue, you might want to establish a unique look for all your presentations to identify your work.

In this chapter, you will create a new color scheme and font set and then save the color/font combination as a new theme. You will view and edit the slide masters for a presentation; changing the layout, text formatting, and bullet formatting, and adding a picture to the background. You will then create a new master layout, save a presentation as a design template, and create a new presentation based on the template.