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The initial graphic generated by PowerPoint will have placeholder text and only 3 milestones. You can insert your own data directly on the graphic by typing inside the [Text] boxes on the slide, but adding new milestones or events besides the 3 default ones can become a little tricky this way. That’s why I’d recommend using the Text Pane instead, as it’s faster and it allows you to easily insert extra milestones on your timeline. Here’s how it works:
To add more milestones, simply press Enter after an existing item in the Text Pane and insert your data. You’ll notice that PowerPoint automatically shrinks the texts’ size the more events you add to your timeline. To ensure your data remains easy to read, it would be safe to keep to maximum 5 or 7 milestones.
Depending on the style or template you’ve selected, you will get a PowerPoint timeline that looks similar to this:
This step-by-step PowerPoint timeline tutorial will show you how to make professional timelines right inside the popular presentation tool.
Create a new presentation or open an existing one and add a new blank slide.
Now you can apply some styling choices if you want to make your PowerPoint timeline look more unique.
Note: As you will notice, PowerPoint places your milestones equidistant on the timeline, regardless of the relative distance between their dates. This is because the tool “reads” the information you enter as simple text, so it isn’t able to automatically calculate the number of days between two milestones. You can manually drag your milestone shapes and descriptions closer to or farther from each other, but as you add more items on the timeline, the layout will get distorted, so I’d recommend leaving them as they are.
If you've created a template or gotten one from elsewhere, store it in the right location to make it easy to apply:
When you find the template that you want, click it to see the details, and then click Create.
To reuse a template that you've recently used, click Recent Templates.
3. Colors, fonts, effects (3-D, lines, fills, shadows, etc.), and theme design elements (such as the color and gradient effects inside the word Soccer)
In this course:
Under Save presentations, in the box named Default personal templates location, specify the location named above that is appropriate for your Windows operating system.
Under Office.com Templates, click a template category, select a template, and then click Download to download the template to your local drive.
To use a template that you installed to your local drive previously, click My Templates, click the template that you want, and then click OK.
Tip: In Slide Master view, in the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master represents the larger slide image, and the associated layouts are smaller, positioned beneath it.
To change the background, on the Slide Master tab, in the Background group, click Background Styles, and then click a background.
Click a heading below to open the section and see detailed instructions:
To add a placeholder (to hold text, a picture, chart, video, sound, and other objects), in the thumbnail pane, select the slide layout that you want to hold the placeholder, and do the following:
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On the Slide Master tab, in the Edit Master group, click Insert Slide Master.
Type descriptive text that prompts the users of your template to enter specific information.
The slide master is the largest slide image at the top of the slide thumbnail list, to the left of your slides. Associated slide layouts are positioned beneath the slide master.
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