The Fonts panel lets you choose a global font to be used across the presentation. The Colors panel offers a wide selection of color schemes to apply to the master. This is a good option if you are looking for something stylish and don’t want to spend time creating an entire theme from scratch.įor more granular control over your presets, look within the Background group to access the Colors, Fonts, and Effects options. Moving along the Slide Master ribbon, select the Themes button.įrom here, we apply a preset theme to the entire master schema, which gives the presentation a set of visual display attributes, including background, font type, and colors. Removing any of these layout components removes them completely from the master and its subordinate layouts. This dialog box allows us to add and remove placeholder boxes for the title, text, date, slide number, and footer. Similarly, the Master Layout button is greyed out whenever you are on a subordinate layout slide. These can only be accessed from individual layouts.
The other options under this group are greyed out while on the master slide. While the topmost Master Slide is selected, you can make global changes to key elements by clicking on the Master Layout button. Let’s look at the options available from the Slide Master Ribbon.
When you first open the Slide Master view, you see a blank slide master with the default layouts. Perhaps you would like a layout for chapter title cards, another for reviewing key points, and several more types to cover the individual topics you plan to address during your presentation? While each slide layout may be set up differently, they still contain the same color scheme, fonts, and effects of the Master Slide. They can be customized to provide a wide but uniform selection of slide designs. Each of these subordinate slides are called layouts. When you modify any layout beneath the top-most Master Slide, you effectively make changes to the entire Master schema. To do so, navigate to the View ribbon and select Slide Master within the Master Views group. To edit it, we must enter the Slide Master View.
PowerPoint includes quite a few slide masters by default, but creating your own allows you to make global customizations to your entire presentation in a single stroke, saving an enormous amount of time and frustration.Įvery presentation contains at least one slide master by default. When you associate a slide master with a Microsoft PowerPoint 365 presentation, it stores information about that presentation’s visual theme and layout, including background images, fonts, effects, and placeholders.
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