What is saved in a template?

MasterView International

by Luigi Canali De Rossi



September 15th, 2002

When you apply one of The Microsoft ready made templates
("Format" >> "Slide Design..." in PowerPoint XP,
"Format" >> "Apply Design" in the previous versions),
what are you actually applying to your presentation?

Or when you decide to save a presentation as a template, what
kind of information are you actually saving inside that file?

In a few words, what type of information, settings and format
are stored and saved in a PowerPoint template file?

Well, a template contains the following info:

a) Slide size and orientation

(which you can change from "File" >> "Page
layout")

b) Color Scheme:

(including colors for default fill, line, shadow, text etc.) -
which you could modify (in PPT 97 and 200) from "Format"
>>

"Slide Color Scheme"

c) Text Styles:

(e.g. Title and Body Text placeholder formatting) - which you
can then modify from the Slide Master

d) Defaults for text and AutoShapes objects:

Fill and Line color and styles, shadowed, etc. - these options
can then be modified by right-clicking on any AutoShape object
and choosing "Set AutoShape Defaults".

e) Printer settings for slides, notes and handouts:

Which can be modified from "File" >> "Print..."

f) Initial view:

Slides, Notes Page, Slide Sorter, etc.

Now you know what type of settings you are saving every time
you save a presentation as a template or you use any ready-made
templates saved as *.pot files.

 

You can read this article in the original issue of MasterView.

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posted by Robin Good on Sunday, September 15 2002
Tuesday, January 15 2008

URL of this article:
http://masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/2002/09/15/what_is_saved_in_a.htm

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