What motivated you to author a book on this topic?Įcho: Well, we kept seeing very poorly built templates cross our desks, which was frustrating because a properly built template can actually save users a ton of time. Geetesh: Your book, Building PowerPoint Templates has so much information that has been rarely documented elsewhere, and certainly never explained in plain English. In this conversation, Echo discusses this new book she co-authored with Julie Terberg. Echo is also the author of Building PowerPoint Templates Step by Step with the Experts, published by Que. When she’s not adding tutorials and information to her Echo’s Voice site, she is busy creating PowerPoint templates or conducting training sessions for a variety of clients. Echo Swinford is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional).