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The presenter can display graphs, charts, maps, and attractive graphics along with the information to help the
audience visualize what he is presenting. You will find that audience retention will increase drastically, depending
on the quality of your slides.

How to Create a PowerPoint Visual Presentation

Here are the steps. Open PowerPoint on your computer screen and let’s begin…..

1. First, choose a theme

When you open PowerPoint, you’ll see some built-in themes and templates. A theme is a slide design that contains
matching colors, fonts, and special effects like shadows, reflections, and more.

1. On the File tab of the Ribbon, select New, and then choose a theme.
PowerPoint shows you a preview of the theme, with four color variations to choose from on the right side.

2. Click Create or pick a color variation and
then click Create.

There are a couple of hundred templates you
can use from within PowerPoint itself. Open
PowerPoint and you’ll see thumbnail images for
about 30 or so templates. You can find a lot
more by just performing a search using the
search box at the top. If you just want to see all
the options, click on one of the suggested
searches and then you’ll see a long list of categories you can choose from.

Here are 15 websites which have some quite amazing and FREE PowerPoint templates available to download:

Presentation Magazine (https://www.presentationmagazine.com/free_powerpoint_template.htm)

This website apparently has exactly 56,574 free PowerPoint templates! They have a huge number of categories that
you can browse through or you can search by tags or specific colors. In addition, they have a separate section just
for PowerPoint backgrounds, in case that is all you are looking for. To get a template, click on the presentation and
then click on the Download PPTX button. No registration required.

Smile Templates (https://www.smiletemplates.com/free/powerpoint-templates/0.html)

This website has several hundred nice-looking templates that can be downloaded for free. Note that the free
template has only 3 slides, which is completely fine. They try to sell you a 24-slide download for a whopping $18!
Don’t do that as you can make all those slides yourself using the three free ones. Registration required.

PowerPoint Styles (http://www.powerpointstyles.com/)

PowerPoint Styles has several hundred templates that you can browse by category, color, tag, most viewed, most
recently added or most downloaded. Simply click on the Download now button on the template page to get the file,
no registration required.

FPPT (https://www.free-power-point-templates.com/popular-powerpoint-slide-design/)

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