PowerPoint template is called either a structure or a project of a slide or group of slides, which are saved as a file with POTX extension. Template may contain layouts, theme colors, theme effects, background styles and even informative contents.

You can create and save your own PowerPoint templates. Any time you can add some additional stuff to them, use them as many times as you need for your PowerPoint presentations and share them with other users, if such a necessity arises. Hundreds of various free templates for PowerPoint and other programs can be found on the official Microsoft Office web-site.

Here is the list of the most common PowerPoint templates which can be easily found in Internet: agenda, budget, content slides, account reports, CV, contacts, calendars, database, newsletters etc.

Templates can have the following elements:

• Main content, which is defined by the function of the PowerPoint template. For example, the sign ‘Honorable diploma’, ‘Football’ and the picture of a ball. Usually such text or content can be modified only in the slide sample.
• Background formatting, for example pictures, textures, gradient filling, limpidity etc.
• Colors, types, special elements, such as color and gradient filling of the word ‘Football’.
• Replaceable text, which indicates that it is necessary to type in some specified information, for example names of the players, a name of the couch, dates of the investiture etc.

If it is necessary for the PowerPoint presentation to have a look and shape as it has been made by a professional designer, you should use one or even more layouts with smartly chosen colors, appropriate backgrounds, types and effects. But the most important thing to do is to use a theme. You can easily apply theme to various tables, graphic SmartArt elements, figures or diagrams on your slides.

Working with PowerPoint presentations you can deal with so many themes and apply any kinds of settings to them. They can be used in their standard format or they can be modified according to your own needs or the needs of your client. What you need to do is just to choose the right one from the given collection.

It is very easy to use dynamic pre-view of the theme. This may help you to make different experiments, such as how the content of the slide will look with various themes.

Same theme can be applied for all Office programs, such as Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. For example, you can save the theme, which you have created in PowerPoint and later use it in the Word document or Excel list. Thanks to this wonderful feature, all business documents will have the same formatting and style.

Each of us has seen poor PowerPoint presentation. The reason can be different but mostly it happens because of inappropriate graphics. That is why it is strongly recommended to use PowerPoint templates smartly. Acting in such a way, will help you to avoid many mistakes and make your presentation pretty, so your audience will not be disturbed by your unsuccessful design experiment.