Whenever you change the theme of your presentation you will notice that the texton your slides have changed and there are some new shapes that have been added into your slides. This is because every slide has got built-in slide layouts and some background graphics. These layouts can be modified easily with a feature known as Slide Master view. Slide Master is a feature in MS PowerPoint which will let you modify the slides as well as slide layouts quickly. From this feature you can edit Slide Master which is consequently affect each slide present on your presentation. You can also modify individual slide layouts which will modify any slide using those layouts. You can also learn about Inserting Audio Content into Your Presentation in MS PowerPoint 2016.
Making Changes to All the Slides:
In order to make changes into your slides you need to follow these steps.
- 1st of all you need to select the View tab and then you need to click the Slide Master command.
- Now the presentation will switch to the Slide Master view and the Slide Master tab will be selected on the Ribbon.
- Now from the left navigation pane you need to scroll up and select the 1st slide. This is the slide master.
- Now you need to make all the desired changes to the slide master like inserting a picture etc.
- Now move, resize or delete slide objects as required. When you are done you can click the Clode Master View command on the Slide Master tab.
- The change will appear on all the slides of the presentation.
Customizing An Exisitng Slide Layout:
- 1st of all you need to navigate to Slide Master view.
- Now you need to locate and select the desired layout from the left navigational pane.
- Hover the mouse over each layout to see which slides are currently using that layout in the presentation.
- In some of the layouts the background graphics may be hidden. In order to unhide the graphics you can uncheck the box next to the Hide Background Graphics.
- Now add, move or delete any objects.
- If you need to change the arrangement of the placeholders you can move, resize or delete any one of them.
- Once you are done click on the Clode Master View command on the Slide Master tab.
- You will notice that all the slides using the layout will be updated.
Inserting New Slide Layout:
- 1st of all you need to navigate to Slide Master view.
- From the Slide Master tab you need to click the Insert Layout command.
- Now you will notice the new slide layout will appear.
- The layout will include the title and footer placeholder by default.
- Click the Title and Footers boxes in the Master Layout group to toggle the placeholders ON and OFF.
- You can add the background graphics, shapes and pictures to the slide layout. You can move, adjust and delete the existing placeholder.
- In order to add new placeholdes you need to click the bottom half of the Insert Placeholder command and then select the desired placeholder type.
- Now you need to click and drag to draw the placeholder on the slide.