Microsoft KB Archive/62836

PowerPoint 2.00 Help: Setting Defaults PSS ID Number: Q62836 Article last modified on 09-25-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

The information below is taken from the PowerPoint version 2.00 Help file for setting defaults.

Defaults are the settings that make PowerPoint automatically do something for you. For example, one default setting is Framed from the Draw menu. With Framed turned on, whenever you draw an object it will automatically have a frame around it until you choose Framed again to turn off the frame. Setting the defaults for your presentation customizes how PowerPoint creates things for you.

The default settings include menu choices (of which Framed is one); the slide setup features; the text features; and colors.

You can set defaults individually in each presentation; you can also create a customized presentation with all the defaults you want each time you start to work with PowerPoint. To create your customized presentation, set the defaults for styles of text, color scheme, graphic objects, items on the slide master (and notes master and handout page) such as your business logo, plus any partly finished slides you want to begin with. Save the presentation under the name Default.PPT. After that, whenever you open PowerPoint (or choose New and Use Default Format) an untitled copy of this presentation will appear.

For more information about this topic, refer to Pages 82-86, 111, and 244-246 of your “Microsoft PowerPoint User’s Guide.”

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.