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None of the templates at Ppted.com are free — these are all designer templates.

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Ppted is a series of powerpoint backgrounds and ppt templates for - collections include coordinated color schemes, slide and print backgrounds, and several collections include extras like wide screen variations
and transparent PNG graphics.

PowerFinish has a collection of excellent coordinated ppt templates to add impact to your presentation.

Crystal Graphics provides their range of excellent PowerPlugs templates “for energizing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations”.

Animation Factory has a range of ppt templates.

Template Ready provides several sets of professionally designed PPT templates.

123Ppt.com has PPT templates, a PowerPoint background section, photo library, fonts, background
music, sound effects, and presentation services.

DigitalJuice - a well known set of templates for PowerPoint - a huge collection spread over 15 CDs.

The PowerPoint Charts site has sets of pre-formatted charts, graphs, and tables for presentations.

Zapit Media offers PPT templates with functionality and impact at its core. They also have free samples.

Office3D’s PresentPack is a set of professionally designed templates.

Template Kit is a rich resource of corporate backgrounds for business PowerPoint creators.

aBetterPresentation.com has CDs of PPT templates in categories like Professional, Holiday, Church, Education, etc.

Compadre for PowerPoint is a set of over 120 templates from the company which also makes Amigo -
a great charting add-in.

PowerPoint Template CD.

Template Central is another repository of elegant PPT templates.

The PowerPoint Template Center has many templates you can download.

A PPT template is a “pre-made” presentation environment. When a template is applied to a presentation, the Title Master and Slide Master (text slide or secondary slide) are pre-laid-out for you to add text and other objects, but with the typeface, font colour, and size already predetermined. Each of these attributes can still be manipulated on each and every individual slide if required.

To apply a PPT template to your PowerPoint 2007 presentation, follow the following simple steps:

Open PowerPoint, click “New” and then “Installed Templates”. Select “Photo Album” (as an example).

Select a ppt template (.potx)

Note that the presentation now opens with this preapplied template. The file that has been applied is a .potx file… a template file for PowerPoint 2007. Notice this is quite different to the .pptx file - the actual PowerPoint file you would want to save and work on. To illustrate the point, notice that this presentation has still not been saved - it’s still known to the system as Presentation2. You should save it straight away to ensure you don’t lose any data.

A PPT template and theme contains a bunch of pre-formatted elements including the colour scheme:

Theme colours

And slides being the most important. If you select “New Slide” from the menu - you will see the many different templated slides, ready for insertion into the presentation.

New slides

One of the best tips I can offer is to use the “Slide Master” page to design the style of your pages BEFORE you start designing your presentation.

This is the place to put your company logo for example, rather than placing it on every single slide. This will save oodles of filespace and will ensure it’s always in the right position on every slide.

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