In today’s fast-paced business world, consistency and efficiency are everything. Every proposal, pitch deck, and report your team sends out is a direct reflection of your brand. So here’s the challenge: without the right tools, it’s almost impossible to keep documents and presentations looking professional, on-brand and easy to use.

That’s where custom Microsoft Word and PowerPoint templates come in and why so many businesses are turning to UpsideDown Productions to make them.

1. Brand Consistency Without the Hassle

No more mismatched fonts, outdated logos, or off-brand colour choices sneaking into important documents. With custom templates, your brand identity is baked in. Every staff member, no matter their design skills, can create professional, consistently branded documents.

2. Time Saved = Money Saved

How many hours are wasted each week reformatting slides or fixing page layouts? Custom templates streamline that process. Instead of reinventing the wheel for every document, your team can simply open the template, drop in content and go.

3. Polished Presentations That Win Clients

First impressions matter. A custom PowerPoint template ensures your sales decks, proposals, and reports don’t just communicate information, they impress. With the right design foundation, your message has more impact, and your team looks sharper in front of clients, investors and stakeholders.

4. Scalable for Growing Teams

As your company expands, it’s harder to control how your brand appears externally. Custom templates give everyone, from new interns to senior executives, a simple, ready-to-use framework. This keeps your branding tight and professional, even as your team scales.

5. Tailored to How You Work

Unlike off-the-shelf templates, ours are built around the way your organisation actually creates and shares documents. That means smarter layouts, built-in formatting and interactive features designed specifically for your workflows.

Why UpsideDown Templates?

At UpsideDown Productions, we specialise in making Microsoft Word and PowerPoint work for your brand, not against it. Our templates are professionally designed to showcase your identity, easy for staff to use, built for efficiency and time saving across the whole organisation.

Your documents and presentations should tell your story with clarity and confidence. With the right templates, they’ll do exactly that.

Ready to streamline your office branding? Let’s chat: hello@upsidedown.com.au

Visit our website to find out more: https://upsidedown.com.au/templates/

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1. What is a template?

A template is not a document. It is a master file (or shell) that contains common key elements that are applied whenever you create a brand new Word document, PowerPoint presentation or Excel workbook.

Typically many of the elements contained in the template are related to the corporate brand guidelines. The idea is that you run the template and it will create a unique and editable version based on the template that also maintains the integrity of the original design.

Of course Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel all have different capabilities and limitations as to the type of information that can be saved, and also how it can be programmed and saved into a template.

Microsoft Word has .dotx as the template and .docx as the document that is created from the template. Microsoft Word has the most comprehensive range of features that can be applied to it’s templates. Key time saving functionality includes adding custom styles, colours, ribbons, Dialog boxes, outline numbers, tables and charts.

Microsoft PowerPoint has .potx as the template and .pptx as the presentation. Key features include multiple slide masters, colour theme, image placeholders and table styles.

Microsoft Excel has .xltx as the template and .xlsx as the workbook. Key features include colours, fonts, styles, charts and calculations.

2. Styles

The ability to pre-set styles is one of the key features of templates yet are often undervalued and underused. Using styles to include font size, colour, spacing etc. instead of manual formatting will save you hours and ensure that you maintain consistency not only within the document but also across all documents of the same type. Once styles for headings, body text, bullets etc. have been applied it makes it vey easy to update the entire document quickly if there is a formatting change.

3. Colour palette

Embedding the corporate colour palette into the template guarantees that text, charts and tables remain on brand, maintaining the colour theme throughout the document automatically.

Having to manually set colour values every time you need to change a colour is not only time consuming but bound to go wrong at some point. It only takes a typo, a copy formatting from the wrong colour or those little sticky notes with the RGB colours to go missing from the edge of your monitor!

4. Section breaks

Section breaks can wreak havoc with your documents and cause more problems in Microsoft Word than anything else. There’s really only 3 times when a section break needs to be used at all;

(1) to change between portrait and landscape pages,
(2) to swap between different columns layouts, or,
(3) if you need different headers and footers within the same document.

In most other circumstances a page break should be used instead.

5. Ribbon/Tool bar

A custom company ribbon can save time because all common formatting tools that these needs can be accessed from the same place.

A basic toolbar can be created on templates that are not macro enabled. This will allow you to have easy access to Headings 1, 2 and 3. Normal style and List bullet 1.

A more complex toolbar can be created through macros. This includes, but is not limited to:

●  Insert Logo
●  Remove Logo
●  Insert A4 Landscape page (in-between pages or at the end of document)
●  Insert A4 Portrait page (in-between pages or at the end of document)
●  Insert “Company” Table (more than 1 table can be added)
●  View of most of the styles used (Headings, Subheadings, List Bullets, List Numbers, Table
styles, etc)
●  Table caption, Picture caption
●  Update TOC
●  Update Table of Appendices

6. Dialog boxes

We can create custom dialog boxes through coding of the template. This helps so that the user only needs to fill in standard information into the fields once and it will populate it throughout the document in the correct order, position and style.

Complex dialog boxes can also include, but are not limited to:

●  Choice of Covers (Different images, different position of headings)
●  Choice of 1 column or 2 column
●  Choice of Odd & Even Pages
●  Choice of enabling/disabling a section of fields if they choose a specific item in the previous
field.
●  Choice to pick specific items and only those items will appear on the document.

7. PPT Slide Masters

PowerPoint templates let you create multiple slide masters based on your design (case studies, multiple covers, multiple dividers).

Colour theme can also be pre-set to match your comany’s colours. This will make sure that all graphs come in the right order and right colours.

PowerPoint also lets you create and apply custom shaped image placeholders in the template.

8. Tables/Charts

Custom Table styles can be created in PowerPoint via coding. This does not make the PowerPoint a macro-enabled template. Table styles allow you to create your own design that is not like any of the pre-set PowerPoint tables. Table styles can have:

●  Complete different colour that is not part of your 6 accent colours
●  Dash, Dots, Solid borders
●  Specific borders could only apply when turning on Odd/Even banded rows
●  Fonts sizes can be customised to fit the rest of your PowerPoint
●  Levels can be pre-set. Level 2 could be a bullet and so on

9. Outline numbers

The default order for outline numbering in Word often caused much frustration. Fortunately this can be set up to be controlled more via a template.

10. Formulas and calculations

Excel templates let you set up your default Excel workbook to automatically be on-brand with your colours and font styles, etc. You can also apply custom branded chart templates from an Excel template. This means that you can create professional looking reports from the raw data directly within Excel or by linking Excel and Word data.

Congratulations to Clinton McMahon from uberbrand for winning the UpsideDown Easter competition. Beverley the Easter bunny was very busy so Clare put on the bunny ears to deliver the choccies and champers this afternoon. Thank you to everyone who entered and supported us. Happy Easter to you all.

Over the years our custom Microsoft Office template service has gone from strength to strength working for many leading Australian and International Design agencies and their brands. During this time we’ve created tens of thousands of custom Word, PowerPoint and Excel templates in all shapes and sizes.

As UpsideDown templates now celebrates its 15 year anniversary we finally have a new distinct logo to represent the Microsoft Office side of the business.

UpsideDown video also has a new logo refresh too but still keeps the camera lens element.

We are also most excited to launch our new website in 2019 to bring a fresh new look and feel to the UpsideDown brand.