You can use the built in templates that PowerPoint provides to begin your presentation. In this way you will have a consistent design that goes together. The template will include your background as well as font styles, colors and sizes for your placeholders, as well as selected bullets that match the template. There are many templates built in and you can choose the one that best suits your needs. To begin your presentation using a template follow these steps:

1. Open up PowerPoint.
2. A PowerPoint dialog box will open.
3. Click on the radio button that says Design Template.
4. Click OK.
5. The new presentation dialog box will open.
6. You can click on the different file names for the template designs and you will see a preview window that displays what the template looks like. You can look under the Presentation tab, Presentation Designs tab as well as Design Templates tab. If you previously had Office 97 you may have an Office 97 templates tab that you can look through as well.
7. Double click on the design that you like and your presentation will open with that template choice.