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How do you remove a design template from microsoft powerpoint?

I mean like if you have one applied and if don't want any templates, how do you change it, I only know how to change to another template but how do you just remove it so you just have none, no ttemplatesat all on microsoft powerpoint. Thanks! By remove I meant like change it back to the white background, like all white

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1. Microsoft Powerpoint website has a load of templates here is a link http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/default.aspx
2. i'm using microsoft 2007 so usually i just change the design maybe you can right click to format background
3. Hey Charlene, Powerpoint ALWAYS needs a template because although you sad you want "none", when Powerpoint starts, it needs to show a blank document in some format. Look into your "Documents and Settings/<Username>/Application Data/Microsoft/Templates" directory and you will see all the local templates (".pot" files). Make sure Powerpoint is not running, then delete all the ".pot" files. Next time you launch Powerpoint, it will create a "blank.pot" template as default. If you don't like its format, you can change the Master slide and then "save as" blank.pot to the same directory. If you have any questions, drop me an email. cheers :) EDIT: BTW, some one wrote below, "It's not supplied as a file, so there's no way to apply it directly". That is misleading. Yes, you cannot "apply" the blank template but every time you click "New Document", it automatically comes applied with the blank.pot format. So you CAN apply it
4. I'm sorry that you cannot remove a design template. Every presentation has a template - you can't actually remove the template from a presentation, you can only apply a different template. PowerPoint's blank default template is built in, though. It's not supplied as a file, so there's no way to apply it directly. Instead, you have to create a blank template as described in the link above. Then you have a template file you can apply to your presentations.
5. Unless I'm just not understanding your question, you should be able to open your presentation and simply apply the default design template to "change it back to all white". I use PowerPoint 2003. I can open a presentation then view the Slide Design task pane and select (under Available For Use) the Default Design.pot and I get the look that is the default for all new presentations. Is that what you want???
6. Go to design, and choose the BLANK template. Apply it and your theme will be changed to a blank white template. Try it :)