Have you ever wished your presentations looked as good as the slides from a meeting you attended? Did you know that Communications and Brand Strategy has created PowerPoint templates to help all of look like experts? Go to http://cabs.msu.edu/toolkit/powerpoint-templates.html to view all three options.

Once you decide which template set to use, click on Download and then Open with Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The Template will open in Slide Master view. Click Close Master View, select the Design tab and expand the section as shown above. Select Save Current Theme, assign a name and click Save.

When you want to apply this new theme to an existing presentation, simply open the existing presentation, select the Design tab and choose your new template in the Custom section to apply the theme. To use this template on a new presentation, select it from the Design tab and each time you insert a new slide, choose a page type from the template set as shown to the left.