Slide master: secret of templates

Templates are the secret of PowerPoint to save time and make great presentations and the secret of templates is to know how to modify slide masters.


A slide master allows you to personalize the master and then all the customization will apply to all slides that use the master. 


Later if you want to make a change you can make it to the slide master and all slides will get the change.  


So you want to open your template and make changes to the slide master(s) and then when you finish, save the file as a template using the file extension .potx.


Then you can open the template and save it as a presentation and then add your content.


You get to slide master by choosing the View tab and choosing Slide Master. Once you open this view it will look like the image below.

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Microsoft has some training on slide masters here.


They also have an article Create and customize a slide master and another on Apply multiple slide masters to a new or existing presentation. And you can click the title of this post to go to learn more about slide masters.


Thoughts?


John