Free background templates for PowerPoint - Microsoft Support
You can create memorable and attractive presentations by using many of the templates that come with PowerPoint. Use the picture, shape, and graphic effects in these templates to add colorful, elegant, or playful backgrounds to your presentation.
Create and save a PowerPoint template - Microsoft Support
To change the background, select Background Styles, and choose a background. To add a placeholder (to hold text, a picture, chart, video, sound, and other objects), in the thumbnail pane, select the slide layout that you want to hold the placeholder, and do the following:
Understand the difference between PowerPoint templates and …
Use themes to give your presentation a visually consistent appearance. Use PowerPoint templates (.potx files) to create presentation blueprints for others.
Download free, pre-built templates - Microsoft Support
Find and download free templates to create documents like calendars, business cards, letters, greeting cards, brochures, newsletters, or resumes.
Create your own theme in PowerPoint - Microsoft Support
Understand the difference between PowerPoint templates and themes. Remove or change the current theme. Format the background color of slides. Download pre-designed themes from create.microsoft.com
Use a personal template to create a new PowerPoint presentation
Got a custom template you want to use in PowerPoint? Did you receive a template, via download, email, or other method, that you'd like to add to PowerPoint? Copy or save your template (.potx) file to the Templates folder at: C:\Users\< UserName> \Documents\Custom Office Templates\
Use your organization's templates in PowerPoint - Microsoft Support
Organization templates are an easy way to align your presentations to your organization’s brand. They're simple to use. Just go to your organization's templates folder on PowerPoint for Windows, Mac, or web and select the template you want. Your organization must have an Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 plan to use this feature.
Start with a template - Microsoft Support
A PowerPoint template is a pattern or blueprint of a slide or group of slides that you save as a .potx file. Templates can contain layouts, colors, fonts, effects, background styles, and even content.
Using templates in PowerPoint for the web - Microsoft Support
Built-in Office design templates for presentations. Standard Office design templates for presentations are available in PowerPoint for the web by choosing File > New. Click the thumbnail image of a template to open it and get started. Custom presentation templates. Presentation templates usually come in the .potx file format.
Create a presentation in PowerPoint - Microsoft Support
Create presentations from scratch or start with a professionally designed, fully customizable template from Microsoft Create. Tip: If you have Microsoft Copilot it can help you create a presentation, add slides or images, and more.