While Microsoft PowerPoint offers a variety of free design templates, it’s not always the best idea to use these in your presentations. Why? Simply because everybody is so familiar with the default templates that you miss a great opportunity to hook them into your presentation by using one. By using a custom template (or modified default one), you are grabbing your audiences attention right off the bat with something they have never seen before.

Chris Le Roy has written a pretty good article below on how to customize one of PowerPoint’s default templates, which is a good first step if you are new to creating templates. The article follows below:

The Secrets To Customising Your Microsoft Powerpoint Design Template

By Chris Le Roy

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