You can create memorable and attractive PowerPoint 2007 presentations with the professionally-designed slides in this free template. Use the shape, animation, and graphic effects in these slides to add 3-D background designs, rounded buttons, eye-catching visual aids, books with moving pages, and even an animated scale to your presentation.
Download the 3-D shapes and objects template
Look in the Slide Notes! Each slide includes instructions to help you customize these slides or even re-create them yourself.
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Slides in the 3-D shapes and objects template
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Outline with three-color gradient and arrows
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3-D block with texture and engraved text
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3-D hexagon with 3-D text
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3-D rings
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3-D tiles with texture
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Brushed aluminum shape with gradient spheres
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Clear disk with floating text
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Colorful clip art with shape effects
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Compass with highlights
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Custom animation effects: floating bubbles
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Custom animation effects: motion path and grow/shrink
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Watch the animation!  |
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Custom animation effects: motion paths with auto-reverse, varying speeds
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Watch the animation!  |
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Custom animation effects: open book
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Watch the animation!  |
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Custom animation effects: page turns in open book
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Watch the animation!  |
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Custom animation effects: tipping scales
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Watch the animation!  |
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Floating, transparent 3-D rectangles
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Glowing 3-D buttons
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Graphic shapes in 3-D perspective
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Rows of monitors fading into the background
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Stacked blocks with text
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Text wrapped around a cylinder
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Transparent 3-D pyramid
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Transparent, 3-D steps with labels
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Wire outline rectangles and angles
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Wire outline triangles
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Slide examples were designed by Julie Terberg. Julie is a PowerPoint MVP, professional presentation designer, and principal of Terberg Design. All photographs in these slides are courtesy of Bill Staples.
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Use this PowerPoint template to start a new presentation
You can use the 3-D shapes and objects template that you downloaded as the starting point for a new presentation. If you have to apply this template to a new presentation at a later date, do the following:
- Click the Microsoft Office Button
, and then click New.
- In the New Presentation dialog box, under Templates, click My Templates.
- On the My Templates tab, click the template titled "3-D shapes and objects for PowerPoint slides," and then click OK.
Tip You may want to use only a few of the slides from the template in your brand new presentation. To remove the other slides from your presentation, press and hold CTRL, click the slides that you don't want, and then press DELETE.
Note After you download the template, it should open as a new presentation that you can immediately start working with.
For more information on how to apply a template to a new presentation, see the article Use a template to create a new presentation.
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Add slides from this template to an existing presentation
You can add any of the slides from the 3-D shapes and objects template to an existing Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation either by copying and pasting slides from the template into your presentation or by inserting the slides directly into your presentation.
Copy and paste these slides into your presentation
- Open this template, named "3-D shapes and objects for PowerPoint slides," from file.
Note The default location on your computer to which this template is downloaded is C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. If you downloaded the template to a different location on your computer, open the template from there.
- In the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click the Slides tab.
- Select the slide or slides that you want to copy from this template by doing one of the following:
- To select a single slide, click it.
- To select multiple sequential slides, click the first slide, press SHIFT, and then click the last slide that you want to select.
- To select multiple nonsequential slides, press CTRL, and then click each slide that you want to select.
- Right-click one of the selected slides, and then click Copy.
- In the destination presentation, on the Slides tab, right-click the slide that you want your copied slides to follow, and then click Paste.
To keep the slide effect and background design of the copied slides, click the Paste Options button 
, which appears near the pasted slides on the Outline or Slides tab in Normal view, or in the Slides pane, and then click Keep Source Formatting.
For more information on how to copy and paste slides, see the article Copy and paste your slides.
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Insert these slides into your presentation
- Open the presentation that you want to add a slide to.
- In the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click Slides, and then click where you want to add a slide.
- On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click New Slide, and then click Reuse Slides.
- In the Reuse Slides pane, click Open a PowerPoint File.
- In the Browse dialog box, locate and select this template that you downloaded, named "3-D shapes and objects for PowerPoint slides," and then click Open.
Note The default location on your computer to which this template is downloaded is C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. If you downloaded the template to a different location on your computer, open the template from there.
- In the Reuse Slides pane, do one of the following:
Note If you want the slide that you are adding to the destination presentation to maintain the formatting of the original template, select the Keep source formatting check box before you add the slide to the destination presentation.
- To add a single slide, click the slide.
- To add all of the slides, right-click any slide, and then click Insert All Slides.
For more information on how to reuse slides from other presentations, see the article Add a slide from another presentation file.
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