Slide Masters
The slide master's purpose is to let you make a global change — such as replacing the font style — and have that change reflected on all the slides in your presentation. You would typically go to the slide master to do the following:
- Change the font or bullets
- Insert art — such as a logo — that you want to appear on multiple slides
- Change placeholder positions, size, and formatting
To see the slide master, you display master view. You can make changes to the slide master just as you would change any slide, except remember that the text on the master is only for styling; actual slide text, such as titles and lists, should be typed on the slide in normal view or, for headers and footers, in the Header and Footer dialog box.
When you change the slide master, changes you have made to individual slides are preserved.
A slide master is added to your presentation when you apply a design template. Usually, the template also contains a title master, on which you can make changes that apply to slides with a Title Slide.
Adding a Background Image
To add an image to all the slides in the presentation at once, you add the image to the Title and Slide Masters.
- Hold down the Shift key and click on the normal view button
to go to Slide Master View or go to View on the menu and choose Master and then Slide Master. - Go ahead and click on “Close Master View” on the Slide Master View toolbar to return to normal view.
- Select the thumbnail of Slide 2 in the left pane and then click on the Undo button
to undo the application of this Digital Dots template. - Go back to the Slide Master view and select the Slide Master. Click Insert on the menu bar, point to Picture, and click From File.
- Download the keys.jpg image or find an image that is appropriate for your division. Go to the folder where you saved the keys.jpg image you downloaded or use your own image. Click Insert and the image appears in the middle of the Slide Master.
- As you move the cursor over the image, it changes to a pointer with four-sided arrows
. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the image so that it’s positioned with its top edge flush with the top of the slide. - Click on the edge of the title placeholder text box and drag it below the image. Using the white circles at the edge of each text placeholder box (they appear once you select each box), reduce the size of the title and text placeholders so they look like those below. Also, using the resize handles at the edge of the image, adjust the size of the image so that it is aligned with each side of the slide and located above the title text.
- Now right-click on the image on the slide master and choose copy.
- Next, click on the thumbnail of the title master, and right-click at the top of the title master slide, and choose paste so that all title slides will also have the image.
- Go on to the next section on Inserting Footers and Slide Numbers.
Notice there are four slides. If you roll over them, screen tips explain how there are both title and slide masters for the Textured template slide and two more for the Digital Dots template slide. Since only the title slide uses the Textured template, the slide master for the Textured template indicates that there are no slides with this template. Similarly, the Digital Dots title master indicates there are no title slides right now using this template.
Click here to return to Course Topics or Creating a New Presentation Topics.