When you've nailed down the text for your slide show, lift the presentation out of its black-and-white doldrums by applying a design template. A template provides color, style, and decorative accents.

Also, your slide won't always contain only text, and you'll need a way to arrange all that you put onto it — this is where slide layouts come in. See how these help your composition.

And get some tips on just how you insert those extra graphical elements — pictures, charts, and tables — onto slides.

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