In Microsoft PowerPoint®, you can use more than one design template in your presentation. This means that you can create a presentation with groups of slides, or even individual slides that have a unique style. This also means that you can combine several different presentations into one without losing the unique look of each section.

What is a design template?

Every presentation is based on a design template. A design template is a file that contains the styles in a presentation, including the type and size of bullets and fonts; placeholder sizes and positions; background design and fill; color schemes; and a slide master and optional title master.

Your presentation takes on the look (the font, background design, color schemes, and so on) of the design template that is applied. In PowerPoint, you can apply a design template to an individual slide or to a selection of slides in your presentation. And, you can apply more than one design template to any single presentation.

Using multiple design templates

To apply a design template

1. On the Format menu, click Slide Design. (If you already have the Slide Design pane open with color schemes or animation schemes displayed, click Design Templates at the top.)
2. On the Slides tab, select the thumbnails for the slides you want to apply the template to.
3. In the task pane, point to the template and click the arrow, and then click Apply to Selected Slides.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you have applied the design templates you want.

Note  Design templates you have applied appear in the Slide Design task pane under Used in this presentation. All available design templates appear under Available for use.

To keep the original formatting when you copy slides from another presentation

Because you can use multiple design templates in a presentation, you can choose to keep the original formatting (use the original design template) of the slides that you copy from another presentation. By default, when you copy slides between presentations, the copied slides take on the formatting of the slides they follow. If you want the copied slides to keep their original formatting, do one of the following:

• If you copy and paste the slides using the Slides tab, click the Paste Options button , which appears under the slides you pasted, and on the button menu, click Keep Source Formatting.
• If you copy slides with the slide finder, clear the Keep source formatting check box in the Slide Finder dialog box.