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- Add, rearrange, duplicate, and delete slides in PowerPoint Article
- Apply a slide layout Article
- Add color and design to your slides with Themes Article
- Start with a template Article
- Get design ideas for slides Article
- Customize a slide master Article
- Change the page orientation in PowerPoint between landscape and portrait Article
- Organize your PowerPoint slides into sections Article
- Add a DRAFT watermark to the background of slides Article
- Create, merge, and group objects on a slide Article
- Guides for arranging things on a slide in PowerPoint Article
- Change the order in which stacked objects, placeholders, or shapes appear on a slide Article
- Rotate or flip an object Article
Customize a slide master
Use a slide master to add consistency to your colors, fonts, headings, logos, and other styles, and to help unify the form of your presentation.
You can change a slide master's colors, fonts, or effects. You can hide or show placeholders.
Change the slide master
Select View > Slide Master .
Make the text, color, and alignment changes you want.
If you want to use a predefined theme , select that first by clicking Themes on the Slide Master tab. Then proceed with selecting Colors , Fonts , Effects , and Background Styles .
When you're done, select Close Master View .
To learn about slide masters, see What is a slide master?
To add or change placeholders in a Master Layout, see Add a placeholder to a layout
To change text attributes, see Change text alignment, indentation, and spacing .
To use more than one slide master in a presentation, see Use multiple slide masters in one presentation
Create and customize one or more slide masters
On the View tab, click Slide Master .
When you open Slide Master view, a blank slide-master with the default, associated layouts appears. If you want to add another slide master, do the following:
Click a location in the slide thumbnail pane where you want the new slide master to appear.
On the Slide Master tab, click Insert Slide Master .
Note: In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master is the larger slide image, and the associated layouts are positioned beneath the slide master.
Do any of the following:
To create one or more custom layouts or to modify existing layouts, see Apply or change a slide layout .
To remove any of the built-in slide layouts that accompany the default slide master, in the slide thumbnail pane, click each slide layout that you want to delete, and then on the Slide Master tab, click Delete .
To apply a design or theme-based colors, fonts, effects and backgrounds, see Create your own theme in PowerPoint .
To set the page orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, click Slide Size > Page Setup . Under Orientation, click the orientation you want.
To add text that will appear as a footer at the bottom of all of the pages in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, click Slide Size > Page Setup > Header/Footer .
After you make your changes, on the Slide Master tab, click Close Master .
If you want to save this as a template to reuse again, click File > Save as Template , type a file name, and click Save .
Learn more about slide masters
Learn more about slide layouts
Learn more about themes
Create or change slide layouts in PowerPoint for Mac
Add a transparent picture (watermark) to your slides in PowerPoint for Mac
Add a logo, company name, or header or footer text to handouts
Add page numbers, the date and time, or footer text to all slides in PowerPoint for Mac
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Introduction to PowerPoint
PowerPoint is an excellent tool for presentations of any kind, either in the classroom or at a conference. A PowerPoint presentation is made up of a series of slides that can be projected (displayed electronically) or printed in a variety of handout formats.
PowerPoint can be used for making conference posters — and many people do use it successfully — but we consider Adobe Illustrator a superior tool for this purpose as it is designed for creating high-quality print documents, whereas PowerPoint is designed for viewing on a computer or as a projected image.
Inserting a slide
When you open PowerPoint, a new presentation is created with a Title Slide in place. To add a new slide, go to the Home Ribbon.
- Click on the icon for new slide to insert a new slide with a duplicate layout as the current one selected in the presentation.
- Click on the text New Slide to select any layout, duplicate from what’s selected, or reuse slides from a different presentation.
The new slide will be added after the currently selected slide.
Move between your slides by clicking on the appropriate slide icon in the left sidebar, or use the double arrows at the bottom of the right scrollbar.
Changing the Slide Layout
You can always change the layout by going to the Home Ribbon and clicking on the Layout icon. If content is already on the slide, you may need to move things around a little.
Showing and Navigating Your Presentation
To play your presentation, go to the Presentation tab and click "Play from Start" (Keyboard option: hold down Control-Shift and press Enter). Advance through your presentation by pressing the Spacebar or right arrow key on the keyboard. To go back a slide, use either the left or up arrow key on your keyboard. In PowerPoint you can navigate directly to any slide by:
- Right-click anywhere on the slide, and choose By Title from the shortcut menu.
- Click on the appropriate slide. If the slide doesn’t have a title, it will say Slide # .
Instead of a list, PowerPoint gives you the option to see all of the slides as thumbnails while in the slideshow.
- Right-click anywhere on the slide, and choose See All Slides from the shortcut menu.
- Click on the thumbnail of the slide you would like to go to. PowerPoint will automatically restart the presentation from that slide.
To exit your presentation (and return to the editing view), press the esc key on the keyboard.
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While every theme comes complete with its own set of professionally designed layouts, you may want to change them a bit to better suit your needs.
Edit a Layout
- From Slide Master view, select the slide master or one of the slide layouts.
- Click and drag existing placeholders to move or resize them.
- Select the text within a placeholder and then change the text formatting.
Any changes you made to the layout in Slide Master view are applied to all the presentation slides based on that layout.
Create a Custom Slide Layout
You can also create a brand-new slide layout if you need something unique.
- Go to Slide Master view.
Where you place the slide here determines where it appears in the menu when inserting or changing a slide layout in Normal view.
- Click the Insert Layout button on the Slide Master tab.
- Turn on or off the Title or Footers .
- Click the Insert Placeholder list arrow and select an option.
- Click and drag to create the placeholder.
- Repeat as necessary to add all needed placeholders to the slide.
The new layout is now available in the Slide Layout menu on the Home tab.
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A PowerPoint template is composed of several layouts applied to the slides. The layouts are the set of elements that form up the appearance of any given slide. These elements can be text boxes, placeholders, backgrounds, logos, etc.
These layouts can be changed in any of the slides of your presentation, and you can apply them to any new slide that you create. If you want to learn how to create new slides, please refer to this tutorial , which contains everything that you need to get started in PowerPoint.
To change the layout of the slides, you can do any of the following:
- Select the slide whose layout you want to change, open the Layout drop-down menu, located in the Slides section of the Home tab, and choose the one that suits your needs.
- Right-click the slide whose layout you want to change → Layout. Then choose the desired option from the list.
Now you’re ready to apply any layouts to your slides and thus enhance any presentation. Remember that after changing the layout of an existing slide, you’ll probably need to readjust the elements, as they might get scrambled. We hope this tutorial is of any use to you. For further information, please refer to this article of the Microsoft Office support page .
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PowerPoint 2016: Slide Master View
Lesson 29: slide master view.
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Introduction
You may have noticed that when you select a different theme in PowerPoint, it rearranges the text on your slides and adds shapes to the background. This is because each theme has built-in slide layouts and background graphics . You can edit these layouts with a feature called Slide Master view . Once you learn how to use Slide Master view, you'll be able to customize your entire slide show with just a few clicks.
Optional: Download our practice presentation .
Watch the video below to learn more about using Slide Master view.
What is Slide Master view?
Slide Master view is a special feature in PowerPoint that allows you to quickly modify the slides and slide layouts in your presentation. From there, you can edit the slide master , which will affect every slide in the presentation. You can also modify individual slide layouts , which will change any slides using those layouts.
For example, let's say you find a theme you like but you don't like a few of the slide layouts. You could use Slide Master view to customize the layouts to look exactly the way you want .
In Slide Master view, the Slide Master tab will appear first on the Ribbon, but you'll still be able to access commands on different tabs as normal.
Using Slide Master view
Whether you're making significant changes to your slides or just a few small tweaks , Slide Master view can help you create a consistent, professional presentation without a lot of effort. You could use Slide Master view to change just about anything in your presentation, but here are some of its most common uses.
- Modify backgrounds : Slide Master view makes it easy to customize the background for all of your slides at the same time. For example, you could add a watermark or logo to each slide in your presentation, or you could modify the background graphics of an existing PowerPoint theme.
- Rearrange placeholders : If you find that you often rearrange the placeholders on each slide, you can save time by rearranging them in Slide Master view instead. When you adjust one of the layouts in Slide Master view, all of the slides with that layout will change.
- Customize text formatting : Instead of changing the text color on each slide individually, you could use the Slide Master to change the text color on all slides at once.
- Create unique slide layouts : If you want to create a presentation that looks different from regular PowerPoint themes, you could use Slide Master view to create your own layouts. Custom layouts can include your own background graphics and placeholders .
Some overall presentation changes—like customizing the theme fonts and theme colors —can be made quickly from the Design tab. Review our lesson on Modifying Themes to learn more.
To make changes to all slides:
If you want to change something on all slides of your presentation, you can edit the Slide Master. In our example, we'll add a logo to every slide. If you'd like to work along with our example, right-click the image below and save it to your computer.
- The presentation will switch to Slide Master view , and the Slide Master tab will be selected on the Ribbon.
When you make a change to the slide master, it's a good idea to review your presentation to see how it affects each slide. You may find that some of your slides don't look exactly right. On the next page, we'll show you how to fix this by customizing individual slide layouts.
Customizing slide layouts
You can use Slide Master view to modify any slide layout in your presentation. It's easy to make small tweaks like adjusting background graphics and more significant changes like rearranging or deleting placeholders. Unlike the slide master, changes to a slide layout will only be applied to slides using that layout in your presentation.
To customize an existing slide layout:
In our example, our newly added logo is hidden behind the photo in the Picture with Caption Layout . We'll customize this layout to make room for the logo.
You can also move placeholders on the slide master , which will move the placeholders on multiple slide layouts at the same time. However, some slide layouts may still need to be adjusted manually.
Customizing text formatting
You can also customize the text formatting from Slide Master view, including the font , text size , color , and alignment . For example, if you wanted to change the font for every title placeholder in your presentation, you could modify the master title style on the slide master.
Each title placeholder is connected to the master title style on the slide master. For example, take a look at the slides before changing the title font.
Now look at the same slides after changing the title font.
Instead of customizing individual placeholders, you could change the theme fonts for a presentation. From the Slide Master tab, click the Fonts command in the Background group, then select the desired fonts.
Creating new slide layouts
One of the most powerful features of Slide Master view is the option to create new slide layouts . This is an easy way to add interesting and unique slide layouts to an existing theme. You could even use this feature to design an entirely new theme , as in the example below.
To insert a new slide layout:
To rename a custom layout:
When you're done designing your custom layout, you'll want to give it a unique name so it will be easy to find.
To use a custom layout:
Once you've created a custom slide layout, it's easy to add a new slide with that layout or apply it to an existing slide.
- If you're currently in Slide Master view, click the Close Master View command on the Slide Master tab.
PowerPoint also allows you to add new placeholders to existing slide layouts.
Using custom layouts in other presentations
When you modify the slide master or slide layouts in Slide Master view, you're actually creating a custom version of the current theme. If you want to apply the theme to other presentations, you'll need to save it .
To save a theme:
From the the Slide Master tab, click the Themes command, then select Save Current Theme from the drop-down menu.
If you're not in Slide Master view, you can save the theme from the Design tab. Just click the drop-down arrow in the Themes group, then select Save Current Theme .
- Open our practice presentation . If you already downloaded our presentation to follow along with the lesson, be sure to download a fresh copy.
- On the slide master, change the Background Style to Style 7.
- Delete the tall rectangle shape near the left of the slide master.
- Reopen Slide Master view. In the Picture with Caption layout, select the background shape on the left side of the slide behind the text,and change the color to Dark Aqua .
- Optional: Save your theme to your computer.
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Change an existing layout · On the View tab, in the Master Views group, click Slide Master. · In the pane that contains the slide masters and layouts, click the
Select the slide that you want to change the layout for. · Select Home > Layout. · Select the layout that you want. The layouts contain placeholders for text
Select the slide that you want to change the layout for. · Select Home > Layout. · Select the layout that you want. The layouts contain placeholders for text
Change the slide master · Select View > Slide Master. · Make the text, color, and alignment changes you want. If you want to use a predefined theme, select that
By clicking on the Design Ribbon, and moving your mouse over the different images in the Themes Group, you will see what that design would look
With the slide selected, click the Slide Layout button in the Slides group. Select a new layout. Add and Lay Out Slides. Work with Slide Layouts. You can insert
Edit a Layout · From Slide Master view, select the slide master or one of the slide layouts. · Click and drag existing placeholders to move or resize them. · Turn
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Select the slide whose layout you want to change, open the Layout drop-down menu, located in the Slides section of the Home tab, and choose the one that suits
In PowerPoint Slide Master view lets you edit all slides at once. ... This is because each theme has built-in slide layouts and background graphics.