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8 Best Short Stories-Themed Templates for PowerPoint and Google Slides

CrystalGraphics creates templates designed to make even average presentations look incredible. Below you’ll see thumbnail sized previews of the title slides of a few of our 8 best short stories templates for PowerPoint and Google Slides. The text you’ll see in in those slides is just example text. The short stories-related image or video you’ll see in the background of each title slide is designed to help you set the stage for your short stories-related topics and it is included with that template. In addition to the title slides, each of our templates comes with 17 additional slide layouts that you can use to create an unlimited number of presentation slides with your own added text and images. And every template is available in both widescreen and standard formats. With over 6 million presentation templates available for you to choose from, CrystalGraphics is the award-winning provider of the world’s largest collection of templates for PowerPoint and Google Slides. So, take your time and look around. You’ll like what you see! Whether you want 1 great template or an ongoing subscription, we've got affordable purchasing options and 24/7 download access to fit your needs. Thanks to our unbeatable combination of quality, selection and unique customization options, CrystalGraphics is the company you can count on for your presentation enhancement needs. Just ask any of our thousands of satisfied customers from virtually every leading company around the world. They love our products. We think you will, too!

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Presentation with short stories - Amazing slides having beautiful short hair cat lying backdrop and a coral colored foreground

Beautiful Short Hair Cat Lying

The moment you open your laptop and gaze upon the screen, a warm smile appears on your face as you behold the serene beauty of our Corner Title template. Designed to evoke feelings of serenity and joy, this stunning Widescreen template is perfect for creating slides that transport your audience to a peaceful haven. Imagine yourself sitting in a cozy room surrounded by plush carpets, high quality backgrounds, and lush greenery it's as if you're right there with the adorable pet, lounging on the floor at home. Featuring our beautifully crafted Tan color palette, this template is sure to enhance any presentation. Including a Background With stunning high resolution images that will leave your viewers in awe, having a Theme of Home Sweet Home perfectly captures the essence of relaxation and tranquility. Enhanced With our unique design elements, including fur inspired textures and happy themed illustrations, this template promises to deliver an unforgettable experience. Our Corner Title template is more than just a pretty face it's designed to help you get up and running quickly with 4 How To slides that guide you through the process of creating stunning presentations. Featuring easy to use buttons and intuitive navigation, our template makes it simple for anyone to enhance their slides with crystal clear graphics and engaging visuals. Whether you're looking to showcase pets, feature high quality images, or create a peaceful atmosphere for your audience this Corner Title template is sure to meet all your needs. As inspiration, let's take a look at what it could be used for. Imagine creating a presentation about Pet Care that includes stunning high resolution images of happy cats and dogs, along with fun illustrations that bring the animals to life. Having a Theme of Home Sweet Home ensures that your slides will evoke feelings of warmth and comfort, making your audience feel right at home. Featuring our beautiful Tan color palette and lush greenery, this template is sure to enhance any presentation. One of the standout features of our Corner Title template is its compatibility with Google Slides, allowing you to easily import images and add them to your presentations without any hassle. With our template, you can create engaging slides that will leave your audience smiling all while maintaining a professional and polished look.

Presentation with short stories - Slide set featuring beautiful short hair cat lying background and a light gray colored foreground

Beautiful Short Hair Cat Lying

Create a serene atmosphere with our "Cozy Domestic Nights" template, featuring a beautiful short hair cat lying on the bed at home. This stunning design is perfect for showcasing your love for pets and domestic life. Our premium templates are designed to provide you with endless creative possibilities, and with 60+ layouts slide options included, you can customize it to fit any style. This widescreen template features a light steel blue background that sets the tone for a calm and inviting environment. The high resolution images of fur covered pets add a touch of warmth and personality to each slide. With its easy to use interface, you'll be able to enhance your presentation with our premium features, including Featuring a Background With a Customizable Header, Including a Fun Text Animation, and Having a Theme of Home Sweet Home. Our Cozy Domestic Nights template is the perfect starting point for any presentation about pets or domestic life. You can use it to showcase happy cats on their favorite bed at home, featuring high quality images that will delight your audience. Whether you're looking to create a professional and polished presentation or a fun and engaging one, our Cozy Domestic Nights template has got you covered.

Presentation with short stories - Cool new slide deck with shorts - beautiful short hair cat lying backdrop and a colored foreground

Beautiful Short Hair Cat Lying

Slide deck with beautiful short hair cat lying on white table at home

Presentation with short stories - Beautiful slides featuring roasted-short-thick-sausage-impaled backdrop and a white colored foreground

Roasted Short Thick Sausage Impaled

As you sit down at your desk, cravin' something delicious to fuel your day, the aroma of roasted short thick sausage wafts through the air, tantalizing your taste buds and tempting your imagination. It's time to bring this mouthwatering image to life in a stunning visual presentation that will leave your audience hungry for more. The Corner Title template is a high quality widescreen design that features a vibrant coral color palette, perfectly complemented by the warm tones of a classic studio setting, evoking the feeling of a bustling kitchen where creativity and productivity meet. The high resolution images on the background are sure to grab attention, adding an extra layer of visual interest to your presentation. But what really sets this template apart is its ability to transport you into the world of lunch or snack time, where the rules of the game change and the possibilities become endless. Featuring a mouthwatering image of roasted short thick sausage impaled on a silver fork, the Corner Title template is the perfect showcase for your high energy content. Whether you're presenting a marketing campaign or simply want to add some excitement to your next business meeting, this template is the ideal starting point. With 4 easy to follow How To slides at the beginning of the deck, getting up and running quickly will be a breeze. And when it comes to using the template, having a theme of 'Enhanced Visuals' means you can customize it with your own high resolution images or even add a Background With feature for an extra touch of elegance. This stunning Corner Title template is not only visually striking but also customizable, making it perfect for any occasion.

Presentation with short stories - Theme featuring portrait-of-young-beautiful-calm background and a gold colored foreground

Portrait Young Beautiful Calm Short-haired

Theme featuring portrait of young beautiful calm short-haired woman looking at camera while hugging her boyfriend who standing with his back over isolated yellow background

Presentation with short stories - Cool new slide set with beautiful short hair cat lying backdrop and a coral colored foreground

Beautiful Short Hair Cat Lying

Imagine waking up to the sight of your adorable pet fur covered bed, surrounded by high resolution images that showcase beautiful short hair cats lounging in comfort. The Light Steel Blue color palette sets the tone for a calming and happy atmosphere, perfect for a bedroom design featuring pets. As you scroll through the template, you'll notice the inclusion of a grid layout slide with four How To slides at the start to get you up and running quickly. The template is designed to enhance your creativity with its feature rich format, allowing you to add high resolution images Featuring beautiful short hair cats in various poses, from relaxed to playful. Including a Background With soothing colors like Light Steel Blue and White, this design will have a theme of creating a serene and cozy home for your furry friends. With enhanced features such as having a simple and intuitive layout that makes it easy to organize your content, you'll be able to tailor the template to fit your specific needs.

Presentation with short stories - Cool new slide set with young-beautiful-hispanic-woman backdrop and a white colored foreground

Young Beautiful Hispanic Woman Short

With its sleek and modern design, Corner Title is sure to make a lasting impression, captivating the attention of anyone who lays eyes on it. This gorgeous template features a stylish and professional look that's perfect for showcasing your personality and brand. TheCorner Title template comes in Widescreen format, ideal for presenting high resolution images or graphics with ease. The light steel blue color palette provides a clean and sophisticated background that pairs perfectly with the trendy and feminine keywords featured throughout the design. As inspiration from the image of a young beautiful hispanic woman with short hair wearing casual denim jacket happy face smiling with crossed arms looking at the camera, this template embodies a theme of friendly and approachable, conveying trust and reliability. This is achieved through its warm and inviting color scheme, making it an excellent addition to any presentation or marketing material. The design language is enhanced with modern typography, creating a visually appealing contrast that showcases clear headings and concise bullet points. As you progress through the template, consider adding how to slides to help users get up and running quickly, such as "Getting Started," which could include step by step instructions on how to customize the template or add high resolution images. This will feature your branding prominently throughout the deck, making it easy for viewers to see exactly what they're getting.

▼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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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