Layout

What’s new since “PowerPoint” 2007 is that we can change the layout of a “Slide Master”.

In this example, I’m going to change the slide layout of the master from “Office theme” to “Content with Caption” because I want a title above each image.   If you do not know the name of the format that you want to change, right-click it in the “Normal” view and select “Layout” from the pop-up menu. The slide layout that is used for this slide is automatically displayed in orange.

 

Now we know what slide layout we use for these slides, we switch to the “Slide Master” display.

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

Since we had selected the slide in “Normal” view, it is automatically selected in the “Slide Master” view.

 

Click the “Insert Placeholder” button in the “Ribbon”.

This opens a drop-down menu with various options.
Since I want to insert a title, I choose the “Text” option.

Now, when we move the mouse pointer over the “Master Slide”, we see that this is changed to a cross.

Click and drag until you’ve reached the right size for your textbox.

Automatically, it places a standard text in the “Placeholder box’:

Whatever text is there, it does not matter since, this is not shown in the slides.

The formatting of this text in the “Edit text”, is important.

This is applied to each slide in our presentation, which use this (“Text and object”) slide layout.

So we make the text as we like to see in our presentation, such as “Red” and “Bold”.
The format of a “Master Slide” is done in the same way, I select the “Home” tab, choose “Red” and “Bold” in the “Ribbon”.

 

I close the “Master Slide”.

Click the “Slide Master” button again and click the “Close Master View” button in the ribbon.

This brings us back to “Normal View”.

As you notice, the slides in our presentation are not automatically updated.

For this you have to right-click with the mouse and choose “Slide Defaults”.

 

This places the newly inserted “Placeholdder box” in the slide.

The only thing you need to do now is, give different titles in different slides.

The layout is automatically provided.

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