How to Modify PowerPoint Templates With Slide Design Variants

So you've got a great looking PowerPoint slide already, but you want to try out a slightly different look to add some variety. Let's learn how to use PowerPoint slide design variants in 60 seconds.

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How to Quickly Work With PowerPoint Slide Design Variants

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1. Find Slide Design Variants in PowerPoint

I'm working in a PowerPoint presentation and let's switch to the Design tab. Here you can see the Variants section. Variants are a part of the same theme that you've selected, but are usually a different look.

2. Modify PowerPoint Slide Designs Variants

The easiest way to get started is to simply click on one of the thumbnails to try out another variant. When you change your design variant, you're leaving your original content untouched, but changing the visual styles and effects. Click to change between these variants and try a few out as a way of spicing up your presentation.

Change PowerPoint Slide Design Variants — Change PowerPoint slide design variants quickly.

3. Change One Style in a PowerPoint Variant

Let's look at one other option. Let's say that we only want to change one part of the style, like the font set for example. I'm going to go ahead and click this drop down arrow in the corner of the Variant section. Let's choose Fonts and now I'll choose one of these other font combos.

Change just fonts using PowerPoint variants — Quickly change just fonts using PowerPoint variants.

Finishing Up!

With a couple of clicks, it updates all of the slides in our presentation. Variants are really a tool to slightly tweak the style of a presentation, but across all the slides at the same time.

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