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The modern, polished layouts go beyond mere backgrounds, fonts, and bullets: they contain matching charts, diagrams, tables, and other data visualization elements. The template can be opened and edited in MS PowerPoint for Mac 2011 or later as well as MS PowerPoint for Windows 2007 or later. Alternatively, you can also convert your PowerPoint presentations to Keynote or PowerPoint Mac or download premium PowerPoint templates for Mac from sites like PresenterMedia that are compatible with Microsoft Office 2008 and PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. The best free PowerPoint templates. Here you will find a wide range of splendid PowerPoint. For more information about creating a theme, see Create your own theme in PowerPoint. On the Themes tab, under Themes, click the arrow next to Save Theme, and then click Set Current Theme as Default. The next time that you open a new presentation, it will open with the theme that you set as the default. Revert the default theme to the Office theme.

Powerpoint Themes For Mac 2011 Free Downloads

PowerPoint's, Slide Layouts area very useful feature because they let you use a boilerplate arrangement of placeholders repeatedly, resulting in slides that arelaid out consistently. And, you can alsocreate your own custom SlideLayouts. While very few users create their own custom Slide Layouts, even fewer will create a custom Slide Layout withpictures! That's unfortunate since Picture Slide Layouts can make your slides look so unique. In this tutorial, we will show youhow you can easily create your own Picture Slide Layout in PowerPoint2011:

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1. Launch PowerPoint. You will see thePresentation Gallery. Selectthe Cancel option to open a blank presentation with a new single slide, which is applied with the default OfficeTheme.
2. Now, access the Themes tab of theRibbon, and from the Themes drop-downgallery, choose any Theme. For this tutorial, we choose thePushpin Theme, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 1. You canchoose any other Theme as required.
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   Figure 1: Themes drop-down gallery
3. Within the Home tab of the Ribbon, click the Layoutbutton (highlighted in red within Figure 2) to access the Layoutdrop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 2. Nowchange the layout of the active slide toPicture with Caption, as shown highlighted in blue withinFigure 2.
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   Figure 2: Layout drop-down gallery
4. This changes the layout of your active slide to Picture with Caption, as shown inFigure 3. Click the Insert Picture from File icon (highlightedin red within Figure 3) within the Picture placeholder.
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   Figure 3: Insert Picture from File icon
5. This brings up theChoose a Picture dialogbox, as shown in Figure 4. Navigate to the folder where your pictures are located, select any picture you need,and click the Insert button, shown highlighted in red within Figure 4.
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   Figure 4: Choose a Picture dialog box
6. This adds the selected picture to your active slide, as shown in Figure 5, below. Note that theappearance of your slide depends on the Theme you chose earlier in Step 2. You however are not limited to thechoices provided within default Picture with Caption layout. We will next create our own customized PictureSlide Layout.
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   Figure 5: Picture inserted within the Picture placeholder
7. To create your own Picture Slide Layout, start with selecting the View | Master |Slide Master menu option, as shown in Figure 6.
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   Figure 6: View | Master | Slide Master menu option
8. This opens Slide Master View.In Figure 7 below, you can see the Picture with Caption layout selected within the leftpane (indicated by the orange highlight) and the same Picture with Caption layoutcan be seen within the Slide Area (highlightedin blue).
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   Figure 7: Slide Master view
9. Now, with the Picture with Caption layout thumbnail selected in the left pane, access theEdit menu and select the Duplicate option, as shown in Figure 8.
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    Figure 8: Edit | Duplicate menu option
10. This will create a copy of the Picture with Caption layout. Right-click (orCtrl + click) the duplicated Picture with Caption layout, and from the contextual menuthat appears, choose the Rename Layout option, as shown in Figure 9.
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    Figure 9: Rename Layout option
11. This brings up the Rename Layout dialog box. Provide a descriptive name, and click theRename button.
Tip: Learn how to duplicate and rename the slide layout in ourDuplicate, Rename, and Edit SlideLayouts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac tutorial.
12. Now, modify this new picture layout as required. You canresize andmove the existing Pictureplaceholder. You can also add more Picture placeholders by using the options in theInsert Placeholder buttonto end up with your own Picture Slide Layout, as shown in Figure 10, below (compare withFigure 7, shown earlier on the page).
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    Figure 10: Customized Picture Slide Layout
Tip: You can also add more Picture placeholders by duplicating an existing Picture placeholder and move to adifferent location. To do so, select an existing Picture placeholder, press both the Option andShift keys and drag!
13. When done, click the Close button (highlighted in red withinFigure 11) within the Slide Master tab of theRibbon to get back toNormal View.
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    Figure 11: Close button
14. Do note that your active slide already uses the original Picture with Caption layout, as shownin Figure 5, previously on this page. This needs to be now changed to the new layout we just created. To doso, access the Home tab of the Ribbon and click the Layout button to bring upthe Layout drop-down gallery you see in Figure 12, below. Notice that your new layout shows up,as shown highlighted in red within Figure 12. Click on this thumbnail to change thelayout of the active slide.
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    Figure 12: New Slide Layout within the Layout drop-down gallery
15. In addition to the picture already inserted, now you can see extra Picture placeholders that are devoid of anypictures, as shown in Figure 13, below.
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    Figure 13: Extra Picture placeholders without pictures
16. Add pictures to all extra Picture placeholders, and provide a suitable caption so that you end up with somethingsimilar to Figure 14, below (compare with Figure 5, shown earlier on this page).
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    Figure 14: New Picture Slide Layout added with pictures
17. Save your presentation often.

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