Office & productivity software forum: Looking 4 PP or OO template, anybody know where to find?

> All MS Powerpoint templates, from MS, can be found at: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx

I was there no luck, I think it came from one of these free sites. I was hoping someone recognised the pictures.

The backgrounds are available but how to extract them from existing shows to make a template? I think I will need to extract them as the show they are in is corrupted (bullets do not stick see : http://www.officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/PowerPoint/3424) and if I copy the old show and make a template of it, it takes the corruption with it.

The pictures I posted are of really bad quality, so not fit to use.

The mechanism used to search for templates or clipart within Office, works for Office on a PC or a Mac. When you try to circumvent the process and get the files yourself then it will be up to you to figure how to extract the files.

I say, don't download templates without using the functions within Office.

But, even if you get some Powerpoint templates yourself, they should be .POT files, not .CAB files. And .POT files are Powerpoint templates.

I just found I can't use my Mac Office software right now. I'll try to get that resolved, but that doesn't help you right now.

If Office for Mac runs like it does on the PC then when you use the Office application, and we are talking Powerpoint right now, then you just use the "Open" command.

With the Open window, you should see some selections for "My templates" and also for "Online templates"

Using the Online templates selection will take you to the MS website to search for templates with some theme or features that you enter in the search field. You will even see small thumbnails of those items, so you might trip across the background you are looking for.

What is nice about using the tools within Office to get templates of clipart is that you can select multiple items and when you finally have what you want selected you click on the download button and all those items will get downloaded and placed into there correct locations. You don't have to tell Office where you want stuff to go. You don't even have to uncompress the files, because whatever is used to compact the files on the MS servers is handled properly from within Office.

It is all fairly easy. I can't imagine that the tools within Office for Mac being any less easy.