- Introduction
- Making Your Presentation Look Consistent
- Viewing Masters
- Controlling Slide Appearance with Masters
- Controlling a Slide Layout with Masters
- Modifying Placeholders
- Controlling a Slide Background with Masters
- Adding a Header and Footer
- Inserting Slide Numbers
- Inserting the Date and Time
- Understanding Color Themes
- Viewing and Applying a Theme
- Creating a Color Theme
- Choosing Theme Fonts
- Choosing Theme Effects
- Creating a Custom Theme
- Adding Colors to a Presentation
- Adding a Background Style
- Modifying a Background Style
- Setting Up for Personal Templates
- Creating a Personal Template
- Opening a Template
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
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Viewing Masters
If you want to change the appearance of each instance of a slide element, like all the title fonts or all the bullet characters, you don’t have to change every slide individually. Instead, you can change them all at once using a slide master. PowerPoint updates the existing slides, and then applies your settings to any slides you add. Each PowerPoint presentation contains three masters: slide, notes, and handout. Which master you open depends on what part of your presentation you want to change. The slide master controls all the presentation slides, while the notes master and handout master controls the appearance of all speaker notes pages, and handout pages, respectively.
View the Slide Master
Click the View tab.
Click the Slide Master button.
The slide master appears in the left pane as a larger slide miniature with a number next to it and the slides layouts associated with it appear below it.
Click the slide master or slide layout to display it in the slide master view.
Use the scroll bar in the left pane to display additional slide masters and slide layouts.
Click the Close Master View button on the Ribbon.
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View the Notes Master
- Click the View tab.
- Click the Notes Master button.
The Notes Master controls the look of your notes pages.
- Click the Close Master View button on the Ribbon.
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View the Handout Master
- Click the View tab.
- Click the Handout Master button.
The Handout Master controls the look of your handouts.
- Click the Slides-per-page button, and then use one of the following:
- Click the number of slides you want on your handout pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 9.
- Click Show Slide Outline to show the slide outline, click the Slides-per-page button.
The item you select in steps 2 or 3
- Click the Close Master View button on the Ribbon.
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