What is a “Slide Master”?

A “Slide Master” determines the basic appearance of all slides in your presentation.

The “Slide Master” is basically a template where we store information about the size and position of placeholder boxes, background design, color schemes, fonts, etc.

In other words, with the aid of a “Slide Master” we may make changes, such as the addition of a logo, such that, this change is applied to all slides in the presentation.

An example of a “Slide Master” is the “Office” theme, with its 9 underlying slide layouts:

1. “Title Slide”
2. “Title and Content”
3. “Section Header”
4. “Two Content”
5. “Comparison”
6. “Title Only”
7. “Blank”
8. “Content with Caption”
9. “Picture with Caption”

If you do not know what a slide layout is, please read again the last part of Lesson 5.

When we make a change in the “Master” slide, the change is applied to all slides in the presentation that are created with that particular “Slide Master”.

When we make a change in an underlying slide layout in a “Slide Master”, then this change is applied to all slides in the presentation, created with the related underlying slide layout.

This becomes clear in subsequent lessons.

We find the “Slide Master” under the “View” tab in the “Ribbon”.

 

If we can click the “Slide Master” button, it is added as a tab to the “Ribbon”.
The “Slideshow” tab is removed from the “Ribbon”.

The “Slide Master”, in this case with the “Office” theme and its underlying theme slide layouts are shown in the pane on the left of the application window.

When your mouse pointer moves over the various slide layouts in the panel, a small box containing the information about the type (1) and its use are shown.

In order to close the ” Slide Master” view, click the “Close Master View” button or click the “Normal” button in the “Status bar” (2).

 

This brings you back to the view where you were i.e, where you switched from to the “Slide Master” view .

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