Indezine Readme

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Contents
Create A New Presentation From A Template
Create A Custom Template Folder
How To Apply A Template
Use Multiple Templates In A Presentation
End Note

Thank You

Thank you for downloading this template - - we wish you all success in creating great presentations. This template was created to make it easier for you to make incredible presentations instantly. All free downloads do not include support options -- however, since many support issues are also listed on this page, you might want to print the information.

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Create A New Presentation From A Template

The easiest way to use a template is to double-click it in Explorer - while saving your presentation, Microsoft PowerPoint will prompt you to save it as a regular new presentation. Alternatively, you can open a template using PowerPoint's File | Open dialog box. For a more permanent and elegant usage, look below for instructions to create a custom templates tab within PowerPoint's 'New Presentation' dialog box.

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Create A Custom Template Folder

PowerPoint 2007: Create a sub-folder called Indezine within your C:\Documents & Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates folder and copy all your Indezine templates (*.pot or *.potx) to this folder. Your folder location and drive may differ if you installed your operating system to a custom location - if that's the case, run PowerPoint 2007 and open any presentation. Choose File | Save As... and choose 'PowerPoint Template (*.potx)' in the Save as type drop down list. PowerPoint will automatically change to the save location of your template - make note of this folder location and create a sub-folder within this folder called Indezine. Copy all your Indezine templates to this folder. When you start creating a new presentation, choose Template Categories | Featuring and select the My Templates option to see your Indezine templates.

PowerPoint 2003: Create a sub-folder called Indezine within your C:\Documents & Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates folder and copy all your Indezine templates (*.pot) to this folder. Your folder location and drive may differ if you installed your operating system to a custom location - if that's the case, run PowerPoint 2002 and open any presentation. Choose File | Save As... and choose 'Design Template (*.pot)' in the Save as type drop down list. PowerPoint will automatically change to the save location of your template - make note of this folder location and create a sub-folder within this folder called Indezine. Copy all your Indezine templates to this folder.

PowerPoint 2002/XP: Create a sub-folder called Indezine within your C:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates (for Windows 95/98/ME) or C:\Documents & Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates (for Windows 2000/XP) folder and copy all your Indezine templates (*.pot) to this folder. Your folder location and drive may differ if you installed your operating system to a custom location - if that's the case, run PowerPoint 2002 and open any presentation. Choose File | Save As... and choose 'Design Template (*.pot)' in the Save as type drop down list. PowerPoint will automatically change to the save location of your template - make note of this folder location and create a sub-folder within this folder called Indezine. Copy all your Indezine templates to this folder.

PowerPoint 2000: Create a sub-folder called Indezine within your C:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates folder and copy all your Indezine templates (*.pot) to this folder. Your folder location and drive may differ if you installed your operating system to a custom location - if that's the case, run PowerPoint 2000 and open any presentation. Choose File | Save As... and choose 'Design Template (*.pot)' in the Save as type drop down list. PowerPoint will automatically change to the save location of your template - make note of this folder location and create a sub-folder within this folder called Indezine. Copy all your Indezine templates to this folder.

PowerPoint 97: Create a sub-folder called Indezine within your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates folder and copy all your Indezine templates (*.pot) to this folder. Your folder location and drive may differ if you chose a custom installation folder - if that's the case, run PowerPoint 97 and open any presentation. Choose File | Save As... and choose 'Presentation Template (*.pot)' in the Save as type drop down list. PowerPoint will automatically change to the save location of your template - make note of this folder location and create a sub-folder within this folder called Indezine. Copy all your Indezine templates to this folder.

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How To Apply A Template

You can apply a template to any new or existing presentation to instantly change the look of your presentation.

PowerPoint 2007: Open an existing presentation and within the Design ribbon, choose the Theme chunk, and click the downward pointing arrow to see the entire Theme gallery. Click the Browse for Themes option that allows you to apply a PowerPoint template file from Indezine (both *.pot and *.potx) as a theme.

PowerPoint 2002/2003: Open an existing presentation and choose Format | Slide Design. This will activate the Slide Design task pane which will display thumbnails of existing templates if you followed instructions above to create an Indezine template folder. Alternatively, just click the Browse... button on the bottom of the pane and navigate using the familiar 'Apply Design Template' dialog box and choose your Indezine template (*.pot) file.

PowerPoint 2000: Open an existing presentation and choose Format | Apply Design Template. Navigate with the resultant dialog box to your Indezine template (*.pot) file.

PowerPoint 97: Open an existing presentation and choose Format | Apply Design. Navigate with the resultant dialog box to your Indezine template (*.pot) file.

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Use Multiple Templates In A Presentation

You can use multiple templates in a single presentation if you use PowerPoint 2002/XP/2003/2007 or higher. Presentations with multiple templates applied show up and play with multiple templates in PowerPoint 2000 (and PowerPoint 97 to some extent) as well, although that version does not allow you to use multiple templates natively.

Open your existing presentation and choose Format | Slide Design. This will activate the Slide Design task pane and show thumbnails of your existing templates. Again, you might want to create a separate Indezine folder within your PowerPoint templates folder to see thumbnails of Indezine templates - instructions given above...

Change your presentation view to Slide Sorter view and select individual slides for which you wish to apply any design template. Use the Ctrl and/or Shift buttons to select multiple slides.

With your slides selected, click the thumbnail of the template in the Slide Design task pane to apply the design to the chosen slides. If all thumbnails are not visible, you can click the Browse... button on the bottom of the pane and navigate using the familiar 'Apply Design Template' dialog box and choose your Indezine template (*.pot) file.

Note: If you have disabled your Multiple Masters options using Tools | Options | Edit | Disable New Features (PowerPoint 2002/XP/2003) , you might not be able to follow the steps detailed above.

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End Note

For more designs and other PowerPoint related products, please visit:
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Copyright Geetesh Bajaj
Last Updated June 16th, 2006