- If we want to get started quickly in PowerPoint
we can use what are called themes and templates.
So let's start off with themes.
I'm going to go ahead and select File, New,
and when I do, you'll see we have
a number of themes that are down here.
Now a theme is basically just a graphical style
that you can use,
so we can scroll through and pick whichever one we want.
Now I'm going to scroll down to this one called Circuit,
left click on it,
and as you can see,
we have a number of different images for this.
So I can scroll back and forth
to see what each individual type of slide will look like.
I can also change the overall color of these slides.
Now, not all of these themes will have color,
but if they do, select the color you want and hit Create.
Now when I do, it creates a blank slide with that theme.
Now if you want to change the layout of this,
you can just go up here to Layout under the home menu
and select a different type of layout,
so in other words, title and content
rather than just a title slide.
You can also right click over this and also find Layout.
Now another way to create something quickly
is to use templates.
So let's go back into File, New.
Now I'm going to search for a template.
Now in order to do this I do need to be online,
so just make sure you're connected to the internet.
And then I'm going to type in Pitch Deck,
and let's see what's out there.
So go ahead and hit search,
and you'll see we get
a number of different types of pitch decks.
Now templates are different than themes
in that they already have slides and content attached.
It's not a blank presentation,
it's a pre-existing presentation.
So let's go ahead and select this one
called Colorful Abstract Pitch Deck,
I'm going to left click on it, and then hit Create.
Now as you can see, this pitch deck
already has a number of slides already created.
So what you can do is you can use these
to create your own presentation.
So we have a title slide here.
This one says about us, and it has some text.
Now, certainly you'll want to change this
to reflect your pitch and your company's name,
so you can just select those, hit Delete
and type in whatever you want,
but the basic format and template is there for you to use.
So if you want to create things quickly,
you can use themes just to get the graphical style,
or if you want to go a little bit deeper
you can use templates to get a basic structure
to your presentation.