If you frequently use the same PowerPoint files as beginning files for your presentations, you could save yourself a lot of time and effort by saving them as templates in a folder. Once you have ...

PowerPoint 2013 saves your custom templates in a special folder in the user profile directory on your hard drive. When you start a new presentation, PowerPoint displays the templates in this folder ...

If you use Pages, you’re probably familiar with its ability to save a customized document as a template. Just set up the file as you’d like it to look for your needs, then select File -> Save as ...