Adding Layout

Instead of a format change, as we have seen in the previous lesson, you can also add new formats to the “Slide Master”.

For this, you select the “Master Slide” in the pane, and click the “Insert Layout” button.

 

This adds the new slide layout at the bottom of the pane.

 

 

 

By default, the new slide layout already has a “Title Placholder box” (A) and the placeholder boxes for the date, footer, and slide number (B).
By clicking on the “Title” and “Footer” (1) boxes, you can uncheck them if you do not need them.

Click the button “Insert Placeholder” in the “Ribbon” (2) and click the “Placeholder box” that you wish to add.
Click and drag in the “Master Slide” to determine the location and dimensions of the “Placeholder box”.

You can display as many boxes as you want to add. Repeat the above actions.  As you see in the image below, I removed the footer, by unchecking it in the “Ribbon”. I have added a text box, “Picture” and a “Chart”.

 

If you are done inserting your placeholder boxes, then click the “Close Master View” button in the “Ribbon”.

This brings us back to the “Normal ” view.

 

If we now click on the “Layout” button under “Home” tab, you will see that the newly created layout appears in the drop-down list.

By default, it is named “Custom Layout”.

 

To make this name more appropriate, we return to the “Slide Master” view.

To do this, select the “View” tab and click the “Slide Master”.

At the bottom of the pane, select the newly created slide layout.
Click the “Rename” button in the “Ribbon”.
In the dialog that appears, type an appropriate name for your layout.

Click the “Rename” button when you’re done.
This closes the dialog.
Return to “Normal” view by clicking on the “Close Master View” button.

 

When we go back, click on the “Layout” button under “Home” tab, we see that the name of our slide layout has been changed.

 

Delete a Layout

To delete a layout, select it in the “Slide Master” display and click the “Delete” button in the “Ribbon”.
Or to make it a little quicker, select it in the “Slide Master” display and click the “Delete” key on your keyboard.

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