www.crystalgraphics.com CrystalGraphics
Home > Templates > Forward Category
search icon
advanced icon

300 Best Forward-Themed Templates for PowerPoint and Google Slides

CrystalGraphics Forward PowerPoint Templates collection has arrived, offering a treasure trove of inspiring ideas to elevate your presentation game. With 6.7 million templates at your fingertips, you can create stunning slides that capture the essence of forward-thinking and limitless possibilities.

Imagine starting with a title slide that sets the tone for a powerful message, followed by 60+ slides that beautifully blend a backdrop of ocean-colored waves with a coral-inspired foreground, perfect for conveying a sense of movement and progress. Or picture yourself taking bold decisions as a central theme, accompanied by gray-colored slides that represent the clarity and focus needed to shape your future.

This vast collection is also available in widescreen and standard formats, ensuring compatibility with Google Slides and making it easy to import into your preferred application. Plus, you can customize each template to fit your unique style, from adding a personal touch with customizable elements to bringing them up-to-date with the latest trends and ideas.

Don't just browse explore the entire collection of Forward PowerPoint Templates to find the perfect match for your needs. Whether you're looking for inspiration or seeking a reliable design resource, CrystalGraphics has got you covered. Browse through other categories to discover even more creative options, or dive straight into this incredible template library to unlock new ideas and take your presentations to the next level. Download and customize with ease unleash your creativity today!

Features & Pricing

Widescreen (16:9) Presentation Templates. Change size...

Presentation with forward - Beautiful theme featuring photo-of-smiling-young-businessman backdrop and a tawny brown colored foreground

Photo Smiling Young Businessman Formal

The cityscape at sunset with the silhouette of tall buildings in the background, showcasing a young professional arriving at a meeting or celebrating a new opportunity has always been a powerful image. This photo, taken from a high resolution camera, captures the essence of success and ambition. This stylish PowerPoint template features an attention grabbing background that transports users to the bustling streets of a metropolitan city, complete with skyscrapers, neon lights, and busy traffic. The Peru color palette brings warmth and vibrancy to the design, ensuring it is visually appealing across various devices. This comprehensive template includes: * A Widescreen presentation format * Peru based color palette: Featuring Earthy tones for warmth, Natural colors for depth, Rich jewel tones for luxury, and Soft pastels for a touch of elegance * Handsome and career inspired keywords: Having a theme of Professional Success, Career Advancement, Handsome Images, and City Ambiance This template is downloadable and compatible with Google Slides, allowing users to enhance their presentation with high resolution images. The 5 Year Calendar Timeline Layout slide provides an enhanced view of the user's progress over time, complete with key milestones and achievements. The design includes four how to slides to help users get up and running quickly: Featuring a clear call to action for introducing new topics or projects, Including a background with essential information such as meeting notes or conference materials, Having a theme of Teamwork and Collaboration, and Enhancing With colorful backgrounds and icons to grab attention.

Presentation with forward - Theme enhanced with large-group-of-paramedics-striding background and a lemonade colored foreground

Group Paramedics Striding Forward Photo

Theme enhanced with large group of paramedics striding forward photo with copy-space

Presentation with forward - Cool new PPT theme with successful businessman goes forward backdrop and a white colored foreground

Successful Businessman Goes Forward

PPT theme with successful businessman goes forward

Presentation with forward - Cool new slide set with portrait of a pretty brunette girl pointing finger forward isolated on a white background backdrop and a light gray colored foreground

Portrait Pretty Brunette Girl Pointing

The world of design is full of endless possibilities, and with the Corner Title template from CrystalGraphics, you're about to take your visuals to the next level. This stunning template features a classic circular approach layout that will add a touch of sophistication to any presentation or project. The dark gray background provides a clean and professional backdrop for high resolution images that showcase beautiful models, students, and women. Whether it's a portrait of a pretty brunette girl pointing finger forward isolated on a white background, this template is sure to make a statement. The Corner Title template is ideal for those who want to convey a sense of importance and focus through its design elements. The use of high resolution images for the background adds depth and texture, making it easy to enhance with backgrounds or add other visual elements. This template is downloadable and compatible with Google Slides, ensuring that you can easily share your creations with others. The theme of this template is clear: showcasing beauty, student life, and individuality. The words "high resolution images" for the background Featuring a Beautiful Student Isolated On A White Background Enhancing With High Resolution Images With A Dark Gray Theme Of Student Beauty" perfectly capture the essence of this design. Having a Theme Of Student Beauty Adding High Resolutions Including A Beautiful Female Student Image Isolated On A White Background Giving A Focus To Beauty Student Life"

Presentation with forward - Audience pleasing PPT theme consisting of small group of business people in business suits standing looking forward isolated over white backdrop and a coral colored foreground

Group Business People Business Suits

PPT theme consisting of small group of business people in business suits standing looking forward isolated over white

Presentation with forward - Slide deck with confident business woman comes forward background and a lemonade colored foreground

Confident Business Woman Comes Forward

The spotlight shines on a confident businesswoman who takes center stage, her powerful presence radiating confidence and authority. As she steps forward, the room is filled with anticipation, eager to witness her success. The air is thick with tension, but this poised executive remains unfazed, her calm demeanor a beacon of leadership. Her message is clear: to build a successful career, you need to be willing to take risks, push boundaries, and always stay true to your vision. With a sharp mind, a quick wit, and a fierce determination, she's proven herself time and again in the cutthroat world of business. In her office, sleek lines and powerful features define the space from the minimalist desk to the high resolution monitor, every element is designed to inspire creativity and productivity. The result? A workspace that's both efficient and inspiring perfect for working on tight deadlines or brainstorming innovative ideas. As you explore this template, you'll notice a sophisticated color palette at work: Dark Slate Blue dominates the design, evoking feelings of trust and reliability. From the subtle gradient effects to the carefully crafted textures, every element is carefully considered to create a look that's both modern and timeless. Whether you're looking for inspiration for your next big project or simply want to elevate your presentation game, this template has got you covered. Featuring a stunning high resolution background image, including a vibrant cityscape at dawn, this Sidebar Title template is the perfect starting point. Having a theme of empowering women in business, with its sleek lines and powerful features, it's sure to resonate with anyone who wants to showcase their personality and style. Enhanced with a subtle emphasis on professionalism and sophistication, this template is designed to deliver high quality results whether you're looking for a sleek presentation or a bold marketing campaign.

Presentation with forward - Slide deck consisting of successful-businessman-goes-forward background and a dark gray colored foreground

Successful Businessman Goes Forward

Slide deck consisting of successful businessman goes forward

Presentation with forward - Slide deck with bottom view business team walking forward background and a light gray colored foreground

Bottom View Business Team Walking

Slide deck with bottom view business team walking forward background

Presentation with forward - Theme featuring full-growth-a-group background and a light blue colored foreground

Full Growth Group Young People

Theme featuring full growth a group of young people running forward background

Presentation with forward - Presentation theme enhanced with gorgeous fit blonde in seated forward bend pose against orange sunrise background and a cream colored foreground

Gorgeous Fit Blonde Seated Forward

This stunning template is designed to evoke a sense of elegance and sophistication, perfect for creating high end presentations that showcase your most polished work. The Split Title design combines a modern layout with a warm, inviting color palette that will set the tone for your slides. Specifically, this gorgeous fit blonde in seated forward bend pose against orange sunrise features 4 How To slides at the start of the deck to help you get up and running quickly. The template's Widescreen format makes it ideal for showcasing high resolution images, and its Sandy Brown color palette provides a natural, effortless look that complements any theme or brand. The Social Media Concept Layout slide is enhanced with a background image that wraps around your slides, creating a seamless visual flow that showcases your content. This feature can be particularly useful when incorporating social media feeds or live updates into your presentation. The template's body also features slim and fair body models, designed to fit seamlessly into any modern design scheme. The Social Media Concept Layout slide is included with the template, featuring a curated selection of images that showcase popular social media platforms. To enhance your presentation further, you can include a background image or video that incorporates the theme of social media, such as live streaming or influencer style content. By using this template, you'll be able to create stunning presentations that stand out from the crowd and leave a lasting impression on your audience.

Presentation with forward - PPT layouts enhanced with career exploration students - young pretty person looking forward background and a gray colored foreground

Young Pretty Person Looking Forward

PPT layouts enhanced with young pretty person looking forward to success

▼Key features of this template

  • They are compatible with both PowerPoint and Google Slides running on either Windows PCs or Macs.

  • They are available in both standard and widescreen slide formats. You can choose your preferred format by clicking on the "Widescreen" check box or icon.

  • Each template includes a beautiful high-resolution background image or video to visually reinforce the theme of your presentation.

  • In addition, each template includes designer-created graphics and modern fonts to give your presentations an up-to-date, professional look.

  • Each template's default design and title text position have been carefully selected to complement its background without covering faces or other key elements.

  • All text includes backdrops whose transparency level is mathematically calculated to maximize text readability while still allowing the background to be seen.

  • And all the text, text backdrops and graphics in every slide are colored with a palette designed to beautifully complement the colors in the background.

  • Our Premium templates (those with the descriptor “Premium” in their subtitle) include over 64 slide layouts to give you maximum flexibility as you create your presentations.

    • Those layouts are available to you whenever you create a new slide or when you want to change the layout of an existing slide.
    • They include everything you need to make all sorts of presentations. In addition to the layouts for the title slide and the usual title and content slide, they include many other layouts for slide types including table of contents slides, org charts, charts, diagrams, infographics, photo slides, thank you slides and more.
    • While creating these layouts our template designers have ensured that all text in every layout adjusts as gracefully as possible to various numbers of words.

  • Customizable templates (those with the descriptor “Customizable” in their subtitle) may be easily modified online before you download them.

    • To modify them, simply click on the pencil editing icon, then select your choice of ready to go designs and title text positions.
    • The editing tool also makes it easy to reposition and scale the background image or video to best suit your needs.

▼FAQs

Please review these FAQs to see if your question is answered. Contact us for more info

  • What is a PowerPoint template?

    • A well designed PowerPoint template is a file that can tell PowerPoint how to make your ordinary templates look extraordinary. They won’t change what your words or numbers say. But they might change their size, color, font and placement. And, overall, they can give your presentations a professionally-designed look that will give your content more credibility and give you more confidence.

  • How many PowerPoint templates do you offer?

    • We have over 32,000 artist-created presentation templates in our PowerPlugs collection With a subscription, PowerPlugs templates are easy to download. Just sign in, find a template and click on the green Download button. ready for you to download. That alone offers you more variety to choose from than any of our competitors can offer. And, as if that weren’t enough, we also offer over 6 million templates in our Crystal collection. Crystal brand templates are our line of templates that have customization options. They have the word "CRYSTAL" on their web page images. You can customize several aspects of the templates. These templates include high-resolution background images from Shutterstock’s vast image collection matched up with artist-created presentation designs customized by our own proprietary AI software.

  • How many templates can I download as a subscriber?

    • You can download an unlimited number of PowerPlugs-brand With a subscription, PowerPlugs templates are easy to download. Just sign in, find a template and click on the green Download button. templates every day for an entire year. (Actually, by default, we set a limit of 25 templates per day to prevent our competitors from stealing our templates. But, if that is not enough, just let us know and we’ll try to accommodate you.) On top of that, with a subscription or an Ultimate Combo, you can also download any 50 Crystal-brand Crystal brand templates are our line of templates that have customization options. They have the word "CRYSTAL" on their web page images. You can customize several aspects of the templates. templates per year selected from our huge Crystal collection. Crystal brand templates are our line of templates that have customization options. They have the word "CRYSTAL" on their web page images. You can customize several aspects of the templates. .

  • Why should I choose your templates instead of the competition’s?

    • We’ve got a larger selection of professionally-designed PowerPoint templates than anyone else in the world.
    • Each template includes a high-resolution background image or video to visually inspire your audiences while reinforcing your message.
    • Each template includes 64 slide layouts to give you maximum flexibility as you create your presentations.
    • Our templates are available in both standard and widescreen slide formats. And our website lets you preview the slides each way.
    • Our free Template Finder™ plugin lets subscribers select and - with a single click - download and insert our templates into their presentations right from within PowerPoint.
    • We’ve been creating designer presentation templates for over 20 years. During that time we’ve won several awards and 5-star ratings for product quality. See About Us for more.

  • Do you offer a money-back guarantee?

    • Yes we do! We offer full 30-day money-back guarantee if you are not 100% satisfied with your purchase.

  • Can I still use my downloaded templates after my subscription runs out?

    • Yes. After your subscription expires, you won't lose any rights or ability to use your PowerPlugs: Templates for PowerPoint. You won't be able to download any new non-watermarked templates. But the non-watermarked templates you've already downloaded will still work and you can still use them as before.

  • Can I share my downloaded templates or passwords with friends or coworkers?

    • Sorry but no. You are authorized to download each paid-for template to up to 3 of your personal devices and to use the templates you download in as many presentations as you want. But you are not authorized to share the templates, themselves, with others. That said, we do offer highly discounted site licenses to suit the needs of both small and large teams. Just tell us your needs and we’ll give you a quote!

  • System requirements:

    • The templates use the standard POTX format. So they are compatible with Google Slides and all PC, Mac and mobile devices running any version of PowerPoint from PowerPoint 2007 up through and including Office 365 desktop.
    • Please note: Google Slides does not currently support background videos. It treats them as still images.
    • For PowerPoint for the Web, first open your template into a desktop version of PowerPoint, then save it back out as a PPTX file. Then you can open that in PowerPoint for the Web.

  • How will I get my purchased templates?

    • You may download your selected templates as soon as your payment is received by PayPal. If you purchased an individual template, you will be provided with a download link both onscreen and via email. Just click on that link to begin the download process. If you purchased a subscription, you will receive an email containing a password to use along with your email address to sign in to any of the templates pages on CrystalGraphics.com. Once you are signed in, you can immediately start downloading your selected templates.

  • How do I use my templates after I download them?

    • You can either open a template to start a new presentation or you can add a template to an existing presentation. To open a template, just double click on it or use PowerPoint's File > Open tool. To add a template to an existing presentation, on the Design tab, in the Themes group, click Browse for Themes... then browse to select your template.

View more Forward templates:

previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 next
93% of Fortune 1000
companies use our
PowerPoint Products Templates Secure

Standing Ovation Award
Winner: Best PowerPoint
Template Collection Fortune Logos
200,000+ satisfied
customers worldwide! Guarantee
100% satisfaction guaranteed
- or send it back for a refund!

Sign up for our free newsletter! You'll get news about our PowerPoint-enhancing product line – including free updates, new product announcements and exclusive special offers. Plus you'll get a link to a free PowerPoint template with every newsletter you receive.
Privacy Policy
Loading...


Help

Contact Us
Product FAQs
Product License Agreements

Company Info

About Us
Privacy Policy
CrystalGraphics, Inc. 1999 S. Bascom Avenue Suite 700 Campbell, CA 95008 USA
© 2026 CrystalGraphics, Inc. All rights Reserved.    |     PowerPlugs is a trademark of CrystalGraphics, Inc.
Microsoft and the PowerPoint logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.