MasterView International
by Luigi Canali De Rossi
April 16th, 2003
QUESTION: I have a presentation in which I want to simply turn
off the template and have nothing. Is this possible? What I
mean is: shouldn't there be a template called BLANK or EMPTY
that gives you back your presentation WITHOUT any template
applied to it?
ANSWER: I am glad you have asked. So many people get bogged
down by this problem, that it is very useful to explain how to
go about this issue. Once a template has been applied to a
PowerPoint presentation, there is indeed no easy way to
"undress" the presentation. One can only change the template
but one cannot say "no template".
To get out of this fastidious loop, do the following:
a) Create a blank presentation with a blank slide.
b) Use the command File -> Save as... to save the presentation
as a PowerPoint template inside the very folder where all other
PowerPoint templates are (should be:
(C:\programs\Microsoft Office\Templates\Presentation Design).
c) Name the file BLANK.
Now, this new template will be available among all other
PowerPoint templates, and it will work as expected. Once called
up it will "undress" any PowerPoint presentation off the
template it is using.
You can read this article in the original issue of MasterView.
