Screenshot of PowerPoint ribbon with View tab selected and Slide Master option highlighted
Now you can see the layouts and, at the top, the all-important slide master. We typically think of this slide as the parent slide and the layouts below as child slides.
Screenshot of slide master view showing parent and child slides (labelled)
It’s really important to phone number in chile know that whatever you do to the slide master (the parent slide) will be reflected on all the layout slides. So, you need to set up your slide master before touching the layouts below. There are 5 things you can put on it by default: title, textbox, date, footer, page number. You can add or remove these in the Slide Master tab under Master Layout.
We recommend you keep all these elements on the parent slide, even if you don’t think you’ll use them. If other people in the organization want to use a footer or add the date and you haven’t set the formatting and position on the master slide, PowerPoint doesn’t know how to treat them. The formatting won’t match the rest of the template and will be inconsistent from deck to deck.
Screenshot of the Master Layout pop up showing options with check boxes: Title, Text, Date, Slide number, Footer
So, edit the title and content placeholders to make sure they’re in the position and are the size that you want. And, if there are any graphics you want to add to appear on every slide e.g., a logo or branded graphic, now’s the time to add it.
Once you’ve set up your parent slide, turn to the layout slides and start to make changes. One change you may want to make is to remove background graphics from certain slides. You can find this option in the Slide Master tab.
screenshot of PowerPoint ribbon with Hide Background Graphics check box highlighted
This can be useful if you want a fully blank slide and to make room for custom designs on title slides or segue slides. You can also change the background color of layouts to give users a bit of variety. Right click on the slide in the slide sorter and select Format Background.