- [Instructor] When you save a presentation out as a theme,
it's just saving the design elements.
But what if you wanted to save a little bit more?
Well, you can save out a presentation as a template
and include what you want to include in that template.
So here, I've got this presentation and let's say,
I wanted to keep some of this stuff
so that we can reuse it.
So all I have to do is go through this presentation
and find those things I don't want and hit delete.
So I'm going to right click here,
delete that slide.
I do like the section headers.
This one I can keep, maybe this one,
and then some of these others I can delete.
So I'm going to go ahead and hit shift
and select all of these here,
and then right-click delete slide.
Now, once we have this,
we can start to work with these individual slides.
So let's say I have this one,
and this is basically a title slide,
but let's say we wanted to use this for
another type of presentation.
So all I have to do is select this and hit delete,
and then you'll see here, we have click to add title.
Now, not all boxes will do that.
So here, I've got this one here,
if I hit backspace, that's a title, this one isn't.
If I hit backspace here, it goes away.
So, we can just type in something here and we can say,
add text,
and then just change that for all of these.
Now, once you get the template the way that you want,
all you have to do is save it as a template.
So just do, file save as,
and let's go ahead and save this to our desktop.
Now, I'm going to change the file type.
So when I pull this down,
you'll see we have a bunch of different types of files
that we can save this as,
but I'm going to save it as a PowerPoint template.
Now, when I do, it puts me into a different folder
called custom office templates.
So all I have to do is type in a name,
I'm going to type in my template, and hit save.
Now, if I do a file new,
I can click on the personal tab
and that will show my template.
If I click on that,
I can create a new presentation with those slides,
exactly the way that I've saved them.
So this is a great way to get a headstart on certain types
of presentations and also to standardize the way that your
organization presents things.