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Using a Design Template. Aside from using the AutoContent wizard to create a presentation, you can also use a basic design template. Now what this means is PowerPoint is going to help you format how your slides actually look, but it's not going to provide any content for you. It will be up to you to write whatever you want and create the slides that you need. The design templates are what most people use when they create PowerPoint presentations. Why? They provide you with the formatting that you need and basically all you have to do is go through and enter the content that you want. So design templates will be important to you as you work with PowerPoint. If you haven't done so already, click new, file - new, and you will get a new presentation task pane here. Again under new, look for "From Design Template," and if you click that option, what happens is the task pane changes to the slide design. Remember that you can click the option here and choose that manually, but here is what you have as the slide design. By default design templates are selected, and what you have in this window are all the different templates that PowerPoint can provide you with. Now again a template is just a basic setup of colors, font styles, and designs that PowerPoint can give you within a presentation. By using a template, you are assured of having a nice-looking presentation without really any work at all on your part. So what you want to do is take a look at what is available. First of all, you will notice that what is used in this presentation currently, and this is the default design which basically doesn't give you anything, and you can see anything that you have recently used here. If you haven't used design templates before then you won't see this, and then you will see a list of all of those that are available for use. Now what you can do to get a larger idea of what you are looking at is simply click on the colored part of a template, not the drop-down arrow. So just click the template and you will see that it has applied automatically to your slide area. This will let you see exactly how it looks and decide if you really want to use that template or not. And if you don't like it, all you have to do is keep clicking through the list to see different options. And once you actually decide on a template that you want to use, let's say I want to use this one, if you go back to the selection over here, you will notice that you have the drop-down arrow that I had mentioned. If you click that, you have some important options. First of all, you can apply this template to all slides. PowerPoint will allow you to use different design templates on different slides in your presentation. So you can apply a template to one slide or you can uniformly apply it to all slides in your presentation. What most people do is choose to apply it to all slides so that every slide will look basically the same and your presentation will not be choppy. If you do this, then every new slide that you create will have the same basic formatting. If you apply it to selected slides that means it's going to get applied to this one slide only, and you can also have an option that says show large previews. If you do that, what you will see over here in the design pane is a larger view of each of the slides. Of course, you can do that or, again, you can just simply click what you want and get a larger picture of it here. That's what I do; I find it a little bit easier. So once you have made that decision, the template is applied. Let's say I am going to apply it to all slides and then as I create new slides and work with them, as you can see I am getting the same formatting over and over. If I choose to apply it to only one slide, then I can make those changes and use other design templates throughout my presentation. Another point to note about design templates is they are very forgiving. Let's say I am half way through my presentation and I decide, you know, I really don't like this slide template at all; I don't like the colors, I don't like the layout, and I really do want to change it. No problem, I am going to go back to the task pane, and I am going to look for design templates, and then I am simply going to go back and look for a new template. Let's say I want to use this one; I can see how it will look and, again, I can apply it to all slides and know I have changed it. Any text that I have typed and any thing that I have done will remain on the slides, but it may change the fonts and the basic look because of the template that you have selected. But the good news is that you can always change them at anytime that you want without having to go back and start from scratch. So design templates makes life easy, they provide you with fonts and colors that look good together, and that is one less thing that you have to worry about as you are working on a presentation.