Get some inspiration

Lifehacker points out that your friendly neighborhood Microsoft has posted some templates along with instructions about how to re-create all the slides.

I'm not a big fan of just using stock templates, but this file has a neat feature - it explains (in detail) how to recreate everything that they did. This is a feast for learning new techniques that can improve your presentations chops.

Do you have any tips?

Note: you need PowerPoint 2007 and Internet Explorer to make this work.