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PowerPoint Presentations: 5 Reasons to Use a PowerPoint Template

Using a Microsoft PowerPoint template can make creating your PowerPoint presentations an easy task. Following are 5 reasons to use a PowerPoint presentations template, also known as a design template.

When a template is loaded onto a presentation, it is added under Masters.

1. Font Continuity
When all the fonts look the same, PowerPoint presentations look smoother. When different size fonts are used on different slides, it's often jarring, and can make it look like some slides were missed.

2. Easy to change overall scheme
The design template can be changed within PowerPoint presentations quickly via the master, and all the slides in the presentation that use the master are updated as long as that item has not been manually changed.

For example, if you manually format a bullet list on slide 2 to be Georgia font, then change the template in the presentation so all the bullet lists use Verdana, then all the slides that have not had the font changed will automatically update, while slide 2 will stay Georgia font. This can be changed by re-applying the slide design.

3. Corporate Presentation Continuity
A company presentation template can ensure that everyone who uses PowerPoint presentations in the company create presentations that look similar to achieve a consistent effect.

4. Standard Animation
The Title and Bullet animations can be set on the template level, which means you do not have to add it later and all the animation is the same.

5. Speed of Creation
PowerPoint presentations can be created more quickly using a template. The template contains the background and the font styles. They can even have animation settings. Just add the text!

When a new slide is added to the presentation it will already have the background applied and the text is in the desired colours and fonts. When making changes across the whole slideshow, the master should be changed.

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