Now, let’s find a color scheme that complements the background. The background gets applied to the master and all the layouts. So, I click Picture or texture fill, and then File, and select the picture file. There is a picture I want to use as a fill. I’ll start with a background design: Background Styles, on the SLIDE MASTER tab, Format Background. The changes I make to it, I want to apply to every slide. To customize the slide master, first make sure it’s selected. On each layout, you get a similar tip: the name of the layout, which tells you its type, and whether any slides are using it. Since this is the only master in the presentation, all the slides are using it.

Here, it is the Office Theme Slide Master, and which slides are using it. On the slide master thumbnail, a tip tells you the name of the master. Here is the slide master, this bigger thumbnail at the top, and these are the layouts that go with the master.Ī feature of this view is the SLIDE MASTERtab it supports all the editing of the slide master and layouts. To get there, click the VIEWtab, and Slide Master. That’s what PowerPoint uses for a blank presentation. You could start with any of the PowerPoint themes, but I like the Office theme because it has the least amount of design already applied. Though I have added a few slides here for demonstration purposes, it is really ideal to customize the slide master and get all your design changes in place, before you add any slide content. Use multiple slide masters in one presentation

To change the background style, on the SLIDE MASTER tab, click Background Styles, and then choose a background style. To show or hide the title, text, date, slide numbers, or footer placeholders on the slide master, check the boxes to show, or uncheck the boxes to hide the placeholders. In the Slide Master View, the slide master appears at the top of the thumbnail pane with related layouts beneath it.Ĭlick to select the master slide, and then on the SLIDE MASTER tab, click Master Layout. You can make changes to the slide master and the related layouts to make them work with the text and other objects that you want to put on your slides. The changes you make to the slide master will apply to every slide in your presentation.Įvery PowerPoint presentation contains a slide master with related slide layouts and a theme. It is ideal to customize the slide master and get all your design changes in place before you add any slide content.

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