Can't find subject templates or themes in Power Point

[Kizzy]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I was in Power Point's Project Gallery and could have sworn that I found a bunch of templates by subject. I chose one called Soft Surroundings - it is a drawing of a cartoon like brown tree with swirly branches and a single bird on top and has a light green background with coral colored flowers. I actually created a presentation out of if but can't find the raw template now. In fact I can't find any topic specific themes or templates. There HAS to be more than the 50 displayed in the gallery, I just can't find them anywhere. Any advice will be greatly welcomed.

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor:
Intel I was in Power Point's Project Gallery and could have sworn that I
found a bunch of templates by subject. I chose one called Soft
Surroundings - it is a drawing of a cartoon like brown tree with swirly
branches and a single bird on top and has a light green background with
coral colored flowers. I actually created a presentation out of if but
can't find the raw template now. In fact I can't find any topic specific
themes or templates. There HAS to be more than the 50 displayed in the
gallery, I just can't find them anywhere. Any advice will be greatly
welcomed.

Near the top of the gallery are some buttons that you can click on "New
/ Recent / Project Center / Settings." Perhaps when you were in the
Project Gallery you were not on the New tab of the gallery.

In the Settings tab you can set which of these tabs to display by default.

For an overview of the Project Gallery see pages 10-14 and 37-38 of the
Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies book.

-Jim

 

[Kizzy]

> > Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor:
> > Intel I was in Power Point's Project Gallery and could have sworn that I
> > found a bunch of templates by subject. I chose one called Soft
> > Surroundings - it is a drawing of a cartoon like brown tree with swirly
> > branches and a single bird on top and has a light green background with
> > coral colored flowers. I actually created a presentation out of if but
> > can't find the raw template now. In fact I can't find any topic specific
> > themes or templates. There HAS to be more than the 50 displayed in the
> > gallery, I just can't find them anywhere. Any advice will be greatly
> > welcomed.

>
> Near the top of the gallery are some buttons that you can click on "New
> / Recent / Project Center / Settings." Perhaps when you were in the
> Project Gallery you were not on the New tab of the gallery.
>
> In the Settings tab you can set which of these tabs to display by default.
>
> For an overview of the Project Gallery see pages 10-14 and 37-38 of the
> Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies book.
>
> -Jim
>
> --
> Jim Gordon
> Mac MVP
> Co-author of Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies
> http://tinyurl.com/Office-2008-for-Dummies

Thanks so much for the response Jim. I tried all the tabs in the Project Gallery including "New" and searched for it the gallery search bar and still didn't find any themes other than 50 or so offered. It just seems like there should be so many more - in the PC PowerPoint there are hundreds. I found more once, I just can't remember how to do it. Frustrating!

 

[CyberTaz]

The template you're looking for is one for PPT 2007 (Windows) which is
available from the MS Office site:

<http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/results.aspx?qu=soft+surroundin
gs&av=TPL000>

I haven't tested whether it will work in Office 2008 but there's no reason
to suspect that it won't. Most templates designed for the Windows Office
apps will work with the Mac Office counterparts.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac