PowerPoint templates

Important introduction to working with municipal PowerPoint templates

To make it easier for you to use the city administration's PowerPoint templates, a presentation with lots of useful information has been created. This is available for download below.
We recommend that you read these instructions carefully before using the PPT templates for the first time. They contain lots of tips for your presentation!

Two different PowerPoint templates are provided for each subject area (administration, green/environment, culture, social affairs, economy, planning/construction/technology/sports): one neutral and one illustrated. The templates are always based on the respective area color.

Important: The defined administrative areas are topic-oriented and therefore not identical to the departments. A presentation on the topic of transportation may therefore appear in the gray color of the "Administration" area and not in the green of the "Green, Environment" area, even if the topic is located in Department V.

Illustrated PPT templates
Even though you can choose between different images at the top of the illustrated presentation, the illustrated templates are of course not suitable for every topic—it is simply not possible to cover the entire range of urban topics conclusively.

Neutral PPT templates
You can therefore always fall back on the neutral version of the PPT master. Here you can choose between very simple white slides for each section with subtle color coding or a version with the Mainz wheel at the top of the content slide and on the title slide.

By default, all master templates already have the theoretically available slide types inserted on the left for viewing. Depending on the topic of your presentation, you can use and customize these pre-inserted slides or delete them (right-click on the slide >> delete or right-click on the slide >> customize layout).

Under Start >> New Slide, you can see the various available layouts and insert them anywhere in the presentation.

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Note: Further up on this page, you will find detailed instructions (opens in a new tab) for working with PPT slides available for download.

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Note: In exceptional cases and for specific occasions, the Public Relations department may include special motifs in the presentations (title slide/header of the content slide). This is possible if your images/graphics are suitable in terms of format and quality.

• Less is more: Not all the information you want to convey needs to be on the slides. Don't overload the slides; the less text your audience has to read, the better for their attention span. A rule of thumb is a maximum of 30 slides for an hour-long presentation.
• Use animations sparingly: Although PPT offers many options for animating text and images, these features can appear unprofessional if used too frequently. Therefore, only use animations if they are truly beneficial to your presentation.
• Create clarity and structure: Say goodbye to unnecessary lines, boxes, shading, and logos; they only distract from the essentials and overwhelm the viewer's eye. The master slides have preset designs for tables and graphics—use them!
• Be consistent: If possible, do not switch between different font sizes within a presentation. As a rule of thumb, the font size for a presentation shown via a projector should be >20pt. For a presentation viewed on a monitor, the font size should be >14pt; smaller than 12pt is generally not recommended.
• Think about the "common thread": Before you create the first slide, think about a good structure for your presentation!
• Avoid confusion: A printed presentation is not a handout: Only distribute printed copies of the presentation after your presentation, if at all.
• Sending your presentation: Be sure to convert the presentation to PDF format. This reduces the file size and thus the size of the email attachment, while also preventing others from making changes to your presentation.