PowerPoint 2007: Select a Default Theme for New Presentations
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Microsoft Powerpoint PowerPoint begins presentation design with a default theme. You can change the default to a pre-existing theme or one that has been created for your company or group. Once you change the default theme, all new presentations will automatically begin the design process with the new look.
1. Go to the Ribbon and select the Design tab.
2. In the Themes section, find the dropdown arrow located in the lower right corner and click it.
3. All available themes will be shown, you can also click Browse for themes to locate your custom theme.
4. Right-click on the chosen theme and select Set as Default Theme.
You may also like -
PowerPoint 2007: Change the Default Design for New Presentations
Change PowerPoint 2010 Aspect Ratio
Powerpoint: Compress and Optimize Presentations (ppt) to Decrease Size
Office 2011: How to Prevent Gallery from Opening when Launching Word, Excel or PowerPoint
PowerPoint 2007: Package Your Presentation(s) for CD
PowerPoint 2007: Prevent Black Slide from Appearing at the end of a Presentation
PowerPoint 2007: Modify Slide Numbering
Open Office 2007/2008 Documents in Earlier Versions of Office
ngf said on October 14, 2008
didn’t work for me- there was no choice for “select Set as Default Theme”
i only could make a theme appear in pp, but no way of making it my default.
any ideas would be appreciated.
ngf said on October 14, 2008
everything went according to your instructions, but i neve got or saw an option to: “Set as Default Theme”
Rob Rogers said on October 14, 2008
What version are you running? When I right click on any theme in the Design tab, I am given the option to set it as the default theme.
Anonymous said on January 5, 2010
Ok if it is an older 2003 “template” .POT then you need to first SAVE it as a new 2007 THEME…then it allows you to make it default