To be used easily, store a personal template that you've created or a workgroup template for your organization in a standard folder location that Office knows about. Doing so makes the template available from File > New in PowerPoint from the tab next to the Featured tab.

Change an existing layout. On the View tab, click Slide Master. In the thumbnail pane that contains the slide masters and layouts, pick the layout that has closest arrangement of placeholders to how you want your slide to look.

To change the theme for your presentation, click the Design tab. In the Themes group, click the theme you want to apply. You cannot remove a theme, but applying the Office Theme will create the effect of a presention with no theme.

If you want to use a template you've saved for your next presentation, here's how. On the File tab, click New. Select Personal or Custom. (The name varies, depending on circumstance.)

Change the Slide Master. Select View > Slide Master. Make the text, color, and alignment changes you want. Select Close Master View. Want more? What is a slide master? Customize a slide master. Add color and design to my slides with …

By editing the slide master for your presentation in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, you can change the footer formatting (such as font style, size, and color) on all of your slides at one time.

You can change the default theme to a theme that is included with PowerPoint or a theme that you've created yourself.

Rather than changing fonts in your slides one by one, you can change the default fonts for your entire presentation. The font pairing (header font, body font) is an important design decision in PowerPoint. Select View > Slide Master. On the Slide Master tab, select the Fonts drop-down menu. Select the font you want to use for all the slides in ...

Arrange slide content with different PowerPoint slide layouts to suit your taste and preference, or to improve the clarity and readability of the content. Select the slide that you want to change the layout for. Select Home > Layout. Select the layout that you want.

You can create a customized color scheme, also known as theme colors, in PowerPoint and use it in other Office applications. Find a standard theme color that you like and then modify and save it in PowerPoint.