PowerPoint comes equipped with a number of designs or background "templates." Designs assist you with creating your presentations. When you select the design you will find that this presents the user with more than just a background. In fact, the design will control many different features of the slides. This includes the background image, text size, text location, text color, and more.

Apply Design

When you pick Apply Design, you will be presented with a window of design options:

You can preview the "template" of choice by clicking ONCE on the name of the design. For example, the design shown above is "fireball". When you click on the name of the design, an example of the template/design will be displayed in the right-hand window.

If you would like to apply the design to ALL slides, then click [Apply]. SPECIAL NOTE: once you apply a design, you will always have a design on your slides. You can change the design (template), but you will always have a template. You can also turn the background graphics off by using the following operations:

Select [Format]
Select [Background]
Click on [ ] omit background graphics from master (shown below)

Some presentation designers like to select a design/template when they begin a series of presentation slides. Others like to add their design after building the initial slides. But it is important to note that when you add a design/template after you have built the slides, the text, location of text, and color of text will probably change.