Every idea has a flow all its own. Express every aspect of it with a theme that's every bit as fun to use as it is functional.

Start With the Basics.
The core MagnetBoard layouts frame a range of whole-page and mixed-element layouts, tailored to work as complete stand-alones or in conjunction with your own custom Freeform layouts.

The venerable MagnetBoard is a staple for prototyping, outlining and brainstorming. Ideas come to life through the interaction of root concepts and associative space in a process that can be, at times, as chaotic as it is kinetic. And therein lies a particular challenge when approaching the concept from the perspective of a theme: how do we capture not just the visual dynamics of a MagnetBoard - the raw tactile sense of material and placement - but also the free-flowing, mutable nature of the format that makes it so very appealing to use in the first place?

With MagnetBoard for PowerPoint, we've answered that challenge with themes that are as flexible as your most free-flowing ideas might demand. We began with a richly-textured base of smooth, pressed steel, crisp paper and thumb-worn magnets begging to be touched - joined by the grittier, industrial-driven perforated metal of MagnetBoard Teknik for a hard-edge alternative. The core layouts frame a range of whole-page and mixed-element layouts covering all the basics - from single and multiple photo-driven slides to multi-topic content-driven models - each designed with an eye toward balance and holding focus on your content rather than its surroundings. But the theme really comes to life when you begin working with the Freeform Masters - bare-essential layouts designed to be used with the included Supplemental Objects library to build your own arrangements, layouts and content models on the fly. MagnetBoard provides the foundation - where you take it is limited only by imagination.

As Unique as You Need it.
Stick with one of the 20+ standard layouts, or dive into the Freeform Masters to create content-specfic layouts more tailored to your own style. Supplemental Objects like the Torn Paper and Word Tiles (shown above) make it easy to extend or accent your layouts with Copy & Paste ease.

The Slides

The MagnetBoard themes includes 28 master slides in both standard and Teknik styles - a mix of whole-page and mixed-object layouts, along with the Freeform Masters optimized for custom layouts or accent object placement. The core layouts frame a range of general-purpose designs with an eye toward simplicity - crisp type on a visibly tactile foundation designed to drive attention toward your content rather than its surroundings. Multi-topic and multi-photo layouts extend on this base, rounding out the linear edges of the core styles with a bit of organic skew, while the Freeform Masters and Supplemental Objects open the metaphor up to your own interpretation with absolute control over nearly ever element on the stage.

The Big Picture: MagnetBoard HD.

MagnetBoard HD, available exclusively in the MagnetBoard Pro Edition, expands the style into HD format with an aspect-optimized 16:9 / 16:10 version of the MagnetBoard theme tailored for high-definition display - so you can take advantage of an HD monitor or a next-generation HD projection system as target presentation platforms without the "dead space" associated with running traditional standard-definition presentations on an HD display.

Supplemental Material

MagnetBoard includes a supplemental materials file designed to help you customize your presentation with copy & paste ease. The MagnetBoard Supplemental Material file contains additional graphic and shape extras designed to extend the MagnetBoard metaphor, including a range of Plain Magnets, Standard and Simplified Photo options, as well as Paper/Stickie/Color-Chip pre-mades: a Virtual Supply Drawer ready to copy & paste into your presentation whenever you need to add a personal touch to the stock layouts or build a fully-custom layout in Freeform.

The Power of THMX

Thanks to Microsoft Office's THMX architecture, MagnetBoard is more than your ordinary PowerPoint template. The THMX architecture blows the doors off the 3-Master-Slide basics of classic PowerPoint - enabling a wide range of specialty and use-driven layouts to be built directly into the theme. Theme-wide color, font and effects settings ensure that your charts, tables and SmartArt Graphics are consistently styled from slide to slide, and since MagnetBoard is fully THMX-compliant, you can change the fonts or running color scheme to any of the other theme presets provided with Microsoft Office - even your own corporate palette or typeface - with a single click. THMX provides the power and flexibility, and MagnetBoard wraps it all in a finely textured, use-driven metaphor look that gets noticed every time you take the floor.

Crisp + Eye-Catching.
The MagnetBoard and MagnetBoard Teknik palettes provide additional contrast against the surrounding style - bringing your charts, tables and SmartArt Graphics to life with a colorful twist.

View Slide Layouts
View the available Master Slides for the MagnetBoard Themes.

MagnetBoard in Action.
View a sample Magnet Board presentation in Quicktime.

Requirements.
MagnetBoard requires PowerPoint 2007 (Windows) / PowerPoint 2008 (Mac) or higher.

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