Slide masters let me do more: If I need one set of slides to be completely different from the rest, I can insert another slide master, and then customize it with its own design and layouts.Using Master Slides enables you to easily establish a consistent, coordinated look throughout a presentation, and it saves you time and energy! In this exercise, you'll lay out the Slide Master, which serves as a template for all content slides. If I save it as a theme, then it is always available for me to apply from the gallery. When I am editing, in Normal view, it is easy to find my customized design in the Themes gallery. In Normal view, when I insert a new slide, the custom layout is available in the layout gallery.īack in SLIDE MASTER view, I’ll also rename the customized slide master. Using Rename Layout, I’ll give the layout its own name and save it. Then I use Insert Placeholder to choose a placeholder type and draw it on the layout. In SLIDE MASTER view, I click the Insert Layout command and get a brand new layout. So the master layouts let me make design changes apart from the slide master.Īlso, I can create exactly the type of layout I want. Switching to Normal view, I see that the title slide has the blue font color, and the other slides have the rust color. So for example, I can give this Title Slide layout a different title font color, such as blue, and the change applies only to that layout. To make a design change for the whole presentation, such as the title font color, change the slide master.Īt the same time, the benefit of the layouts is that I can customize them individually. The slide master contains all the design elements for your slides, including the background design (in this example, it is plain white), font styles, color scheme, types of placeholders, even the bullet design for lists. The smaller thumbnails below it are all the layouts that go with the master. The slide master is the larger thumbnail at the top in the thumbnail pane. This opens SLIDE MASTER view, which contains the slide master and master layouts. To work on the slide master, click the VIEW tab, Slide Master. Use the slide master to make global design changes and create exactly the look and layouts you need. When you want to fully customize the design of a presentation, using not only your own background design and colors, but also unique font colors, picture bullets, varied background designs, and customized slide layouts, turn to the slide master.

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