Faking multiple design templates in a presentation

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Hello everyone

Let's say the presentation I have in mind involves three states, if you will, of look-and-feel. Firstly, you have the frontispiece which is graphically heavy and pretty much a full-blown marketing deal. The second treatment is the content page, and the third is a contact page. All of these have a different look-and-feel, though the second and third pages are separated only by minute degrees

Given that delivering pertinent content is a PP's main goal, it seemed prudent to make the presentation's design template based on the content page style

How do I manage to include the look-and-feel of the frontispiece and contact page without resorting to background images? I can't make them a template because each PP only allows one per presentation. Background images tend to look compressed (naturally), and I want crisp, high resolution graphics

Any ideas? Thank you for any help

-MSJ
 
You can have multiple template designs if you use PowerPoint 2002 or 2003.
Anything before that requires a little trickery. For example:

1. You can create separate presentations with the individual designs and
link back and forth between them using Action Settings.

2. You can create your new templates and click "File", "Save as", set the
"Save as type" to JPG or PNG and bring those images into PowerPoint by
setting them as the background of your individual slides.

You can learn more about this by reading the Multiple Masters page of this
site:

http://www.echosvoice.com/

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MS Jones said:
Hello everyone.

Let's say the presentation I have in mind involves three states, if you
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will, of look-and-feel. Firstly, you have the frontispiece which is
graphically heavy and pretty much a full-blown marketing deal. The second
treatment is the content page, and the third is a contact page. All of these
have a different look-and-feel, though the second and third pages are
separated only by minute degrees.
Given that delivering pertinent content is a PP's main goal, it seemed
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prudent to make the presentation's design template based on the content page
style.
How do I manage to include the look-and-feel of the frontispiece and
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contact page without resorting to background images? I can't make them a
template because each PP only allows one per presentation. Background images
tend to look compressed (naturally), and I want crisp, high resolution
graphics.
 
Hello, MSJ --

If I were in your position, I think I couldn't help but see the parts of
your presentation as wholly different entities. Therefore, it would be
almsot inevitable that I would approach them as separate presentations. I'd
create the first one with a link to the next two. That would give you a lot
of flexibility, as well as creative freedom to create the best possible
product.

Background images tend to look compressed (naturally), and I want crisp,
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high resolution graphics.

Not sure I follow; do you mean if you insert a photo from the Format |
Background dialog? If so, just don't do it that way! Just insert the picture
onto the slide...




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