How To Create A PowerPoint Template: Placeholders, Footers & Slide Design (2 of 3)

[@brunamartinuzzi]

High quality content, as always. Thank you!

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Thank you, Bruna! I appreciate that, especially coming from you!

[@jacobburr4703]

Just need to pass along a huge THANK YOU. You're series has been the easiest to follow and actually helped answer the questions I had. Thank youuuu!

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Glad to hear you enjoyed the series! Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed it so much. Good luck with your presentaitons.

[@justtisha]

Adding guides was worth the entire video!

[@johnhatheway]

Super helpful video, thank you for all the great information! I just want to help dispel a common myth. JPEG files actually don't deteriorate in quality over time at all. The benefit of a PNG over a JPEG image is that the PNG is considered "lossless." If you export an image as a PNG, the resulting file is usually larger (in terms of file size) than a JPEG because it contains all the information from the original image file. A JPEG is considered "lossy" meaning when you export an image as a JPEG, you tell the computer how large and what quality you want the image to be, and any information beyond that is "lost." But once that JPEG is made, its quality will never deteriorate unless it is purposefully saved at a smaller size. With PNGs you also have the added benefit of transparency, which is great for logos.

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Thanks for the clarification! I think in practice, since you can't control how someone will compress and manipulate an image, it's best to consider that a JPEG will eventually deteriorate, if that makes sense.

[@jonwhite8449]

These have been useful videos, but I have to say that I love the presenters voice! Camille you sound Adorable!

[@yatinsharma3325]

Thank you Camille for the awesome training series. I will recommend this training videos to all those searching for slide master tutorials. In my opinion the best on youtube.

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Glad you enjoyed the videos so much. We would be thrilled if you could help share them on social media or wherever you can. Every view counts :)

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Aw, thanks Yatin! That means a lot to me. I appreciate your comment so much! If there's anything you'd like to see me teach in the future, just let me know.

[@allisonhartje2023]

This has already been super helpful, and I'm only through part 2. Onto part 3!

[@afournery]

Very good job, and easy to understand for a french guy

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Glad you enjoyed the series and hopefully you are now good to go with your very own PowerPoint template! If you need a quick refresher on any of the steps, you can check out my step-by-step blog post here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/

[@yizhouz6825]

this is exactly what I'm looking for. thanks!!

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Glad that helped you out! Thanks for checking out our videos.

[@e.v.ohuggs3325]

This was super helpful! Thank you.

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Getting your template properly set up will save you and your team a TON of time moving forward.

[@CeeFerrell]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you.

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Glad you enjoyed the tutorial Christian, thanks for the comment. If you ever need a refresher, you can check out my step-by-step blog post on how to create a PowerPoint template here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/

[@feasing]

Subbed! This helped me make a template to share with my family, friends, and teacher!

[@EscSUPER]

One of the best instruction film! Tnx!

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Glad you found the video so helpful. If you ever want to review these steps in blog post format (so you can skim them more easily), I wrote them all up in the following blog post. nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/how-to-create-a-powerpoint-template/

[@paulconradfrank8730]

Extremely helpful. Thank you!!

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your template.

[@carlyliczyk]

Thanks!

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

My pleasure, Carly! Thanks for the comment.

[@cheeseburger347]

It can be painful to design something for team members with various skill levels and for those who don't value what good design does for a business. I especially resonated with the 2 line title lol. Well done on your tutorial! It's one thing to create a brand and then have a bunch of untrained sales people actually use it.

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

I hear you - it's one of the hardest parts of design. One of my top tips for distributing a template is to include training and make sure that people at least see how it's meant to be used. A simple 30 minute zoom call can have a huge impact. Thanks for the thumbs up!

[@maestrosock9360]

This video demonstrates prime perfectionism with PowerPoint lol

[@toddthomas4761]

Thanks for the vids... was wondering if you have any advice for Mac users - I can't seem to create a font theme in the Mac version of PPT.... Thanks!

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Hi Todd - thanks for the question. Unfortunately, as of right now, there's no way to save a custom font combo on a Mac. Microsoft is trying to bring the two platforms closer bit by bit, but sadly this isn't something they've done yet. You can try hacking the xml if you're comfortable with coding, but otherwise I'm afraid there's not much you can do, other than provide instructions in the template for people to make sure they use the right fonts.

[@muhiyadinaweisyusuf9983]

I am watching it December 27- 2018 woow

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

It's never a bad time to get caught up on building your PowerPoint templates the right way :).

[@bruce7743]

Can I make the text of the center standard as the theme?

[@kimhofmann1513]

Great video! Quick question--how did you do the bar on the page number? Is it just a line? Thanks!

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Thanks Kim! Ah yes, good question. The bar is indeed simply a line, which you can get by holding down the SHIFT key and hitting the backwards slash symbol (the key between ENTER and BACKSPACE on my keyboard). Hope that helps!

[@Amir_Ansari_Official]

great

[@gabeleiter9773]

Is there a way to transfer a template between PowerPoints and have it properly apply the color scheme? I find that the colors typically get messed and was wondering if this is at all avoidable

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Hi Gabe! Yes, if the template was built correctly, using the theme colors for everything, when you change the color scheme, all the colors should adjust. If not, it means that the template was likely not set up correctly... especially if you're going between light and dark background variants. Here's a detailed tutorial on how to create a custom PPT theme (with fonts and colors): nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/custom-powerpoint-theme/ Hope that helps! If not, please let me know a bit more about what's happening for you when you say the colors get messed. Cheers!

[@chriss2595]

One particular thing about master slides is that pictures are always in the very background. So, if we put a logo on a master (or child), it can never be on top of other objects put on the slides. I like to work with pictures that cover the whole slide. Especially with a logo, it's a bit annoying. There's a workaround with the 'developer tool' or so, but that's rather complicated.

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Hi Chris, thanks for the comment, and you're absolutely right. When you're in the Normal View and you insert a picture into a placeholder (added on the Slide Master), the picture jumps above anything you've set on the Slide Master that isn't a placeholder, like a logo. Sadly, I haven't determined a good way around this, while maintaining the ease of using a template to control your logos. The way I would do it is to add the image in the slide background instead of directly on the slide.

[@SpotlightImpact]

I found this tutorial useful for this issue though it’s still not the most flexible. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJ2uqGeeh9Gtms0

[@hemingway9479]

Hi Camille, thank you so much. My question is how to make my entire slide very white / snow like in a whiteboard mode. Whiteboard background makes the presentation clean and clear.

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Hi there! Hm, I would think about searching the web for images of a whiteboard or snow. Hope that helps!

[@kathymuir1968]

Hi Camille, Re: logo insertion, how do you add a large logo to the cover page top left, and thereafter in the footer area, a small logo bottom right?

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

For that you will want to add your left-logo to the title slide child layout (just make sure you hide background graphics on it first) and for small-footer, put that on the Parent slide (the big slide) so it shows up on all of your child slide layouts within your deck. That should do it for you. Hope that helps.

[@vtcl1]

I am so happy that I came across this video. Very high quality content. However, (from left to right), I can't get my title text to align to the center. Could you advise me on that, please?

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Hi VL and thanks! Your text should be able to easily be centered. One thing I would do is to check if there are any margins in the shape (right-click the shape and select 'Format Shape' and then in the panel, click on 'Text Options' and then 'Text Box'). I would also check for any indentation (right-click the shape and select 'Paragraph'). Hope that helps!

[@vtcl1]

@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining O wow! After one year, and you guys are just responding?

[@vladimirdjurovic1660]

Can you tell me what is the font you are using? Thanks!

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Ostrich Sans Bold for the headers, Gotham Book for the placeholders (which you can download for free online). I hope that helps.

[@vladimirdjurovic1660]

@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining Wow, thank you for a quick answer, this video is fairly old, I didn't actually believe you'd answer it right away. THANKS A LOT. Those 3 videos helped me make a decent looking presentation, I've learned so much in so little time. Keep up the good work!

[@rosanlc]

Hi Camille, great content, subbed! I am not able to bring those handy toolbars to put shapes, font colors just above the slide. How did you do it?

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Hi Roshan and thank you! Yes, I believe you are talking about the Quick Access Toolbar. We have a blog post explaining exactly how to customize it here: nutsandboltsspeedtraining.com/powerpoint-tutorials/customize-your-qat/ Hope that helps!

[@sabaris2008]

I need your font. How can I find that

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Check it out here, Ostrich Sans Bold for the titles: www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/ostrich-sans

[@sabaris2008]

@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining Thank you so much. I am inspired by that font.

[@nvisscher]

I love these tutorials thank you so much! I am trying to apply the stylistic bar on the slide number/footer that you did in this video, but when I do this on the parent slide, it doesn't show up on any of the child slides? Is there a trick or step I'm missing to making the slide numbers consistent from the parent to the children?

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Hi Nick - and thanks for the feedback and question. Sometimes, on the child layouts, you need to remove and then reapply the slide numbers for them to show up properly. Hope that helps!

[@justtisha]

I have a question. I am editing a slide master layout placeholder. I am editing the text in the placeholder so that it does not automatically start woth bullet points. I want it to look like a block of text. I want the text style to be light and the paragraph spacing to be single in one box and 1.5 in another. I made these edits inside slide master layput placeholders and when I insert the layout in a new slide, it worked. However at some point in me editing slide master, It stops working and then it wants to insert the bullets again and defaults to some larger text. It looks fine in the slide master but when I go back to the slide or an insert a new slide, it throws a bullet in for me. I don't know why it worked originally but isn't working now. Any help?

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Hm, I think I know what you mean. You will need to make sure you edit the text placeholder that is on the parent slide layout (the very top one) for those formatting changes to carry to all the text placeholders. Hopefully that helps!

[@jh__7827]

Great helpful video, just PLEASE normalise your audio, its so quiet!

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Glad you enjoyed the video, we will double check the audio settings. Thanks for the heads up on that!

[@greginfla7211]

seems like the volume is off some, just fyi

[@TheNickybear70]

12:13 - pasting a logo in - this is incorrect. PNG will absolutely lose quality over time as its still a bitmap - especially when made smaller they will look terrible and pixelated. The only way to avoid this is to import the logo as an EMF (enhanced metafile). This is a vector based format so you can resize it endlessly without ever compromising quality.

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Hi Nicky - you are right, EMF would probably be the highest quality. If you can get any kind of vector (SVG also), I would use that. PNG would however still trump JPEG. Thanks for the addition, Nicky.

[@TheNickybear70]

@@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining happy to help - alsoI recently discovered (to my delight) that ppt supports svg files too - game changer! It’s great the that Microsoft are expanding their file formats 😊

[@rathikavenkatesh2510]

Hi

[@rathikavenkatesh2510]

Can I get one sample template with custom design

[@jaeminkim9975]

@@rathikavenkatesh2510 you might need to DM her for that kind of request rather than comment in public space..

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

For my top 10 PowerPoint template tips, see my other video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWLZp5qFfpatd9E

[@ngperformanceartscentre4569]

too fast😅

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

You can adjust the playback speed on KZbin if I'm going too fast for you. There are a lot of steps to cover, and didn't want to make the video TOO long :)... that's also why I broke the tutorial out into three videos. Hope you learn something new either way.

[@neilhaannam2637]

JUST GIVE US THE BASICS. YOUR DETAIL' YOU' LIKE IS CONFUSING TO LEARNERS. PLEASE GIVE THE BASICS SO WE CAN START. FIDDLING AS YOU SHOW IS FOR THE EXPERT. THIS IS A WASTE ON TIME FOR NEWBIES. THANKS NEIL SA

[@sqwithees]

Great Video. You just need to shorten you video. Be a bit more faster on your content

[@Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

Thanks for the feedback. Glad you still enjoyed the video :)