Building PowerPoint Templates v2

by Echo Swinford, Julie Terberg

Building PowerPoint Templates is the definitive guide to building PowerPoint templates. Echo Swinford and Julie Terberg believe that well-built templates are the backbone of great presentations. Whether you are building them for your own use or designing for thousands of users, this book will guide you through the process of creating the most effective PowerPoint templates.

You’ll learn how

Maximize the business value of your templatesMake better choices about colors, fonts, and slide layoutsPush the boundaries of placeholder functionalityChoose fonts that work beyond your desktopUnderstand the difference between templates and themesCreate your own custom layoutsInclude innovative user instructionsHelp Echo and Julie rid the world of crummy templates

Kindle Edition

Published September 16, 2021

Reviews

[Joe Michalak · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is truly a great book - there really isn't anything quite like it on the marketplace. It is a useful skill to be able to design PowerPoint themes. Even if you'll never design one yourself, thinking about the items discussed in this book will ensure that you are doing the appropriate things to provide a consistent, on-brand presentation every time.

I cannot even begin to count the creative ways people try (horribly) to recreate the brand-approved template (when they could literally just use the file provided by the brand team).

As a point of clarity, though - one thing this book is not is a guide to graphic design. The authors do provide a lot of great tips about designing clean slides, but it won't help you much if you're looking for a guide on the artistic side of building a theme/template. This book does cover just about everything else though.