(Archives) Microsoft PowerPoint 2007: Working with a Slide Master Mac Last updated Tuesday, July 12, 2016, at 2:41 p.m. This article is based on legacy software. PowerPoint offers a Slide Master feature that gives your presentation a consistent, professional look. Slide masters determine the basic design for every slide in your presentation, and are helpful if you want every slide in your show to be the same color, to have the same header or footer, or to carry a particular logo (e.g., UW-Eau Claire).
The background color, title, and images on the slide master appear on every slide of your presentation. You can set the appearance of bullets, place holding for images, and the font for each section of your slides.
The Slide Cow Toolkit is best optimized for Windows PowerPoint versions 2013 and above, and PowerPoint for Mac 2016. It does work on earlier versions, but you may run into a few issues since the functionalities of PowerPoint have developed to a certain degree over the years.
Universal style changes can be made to every slide in your presentation by formatting the slide master, leaving the content of each slide unchanged. Each slide master allows you to format a variety of different layout slides, each of which can have slightly different formatting and be applied to slides with different purposes. For instance, you could use a slide master to set particular colors and text formatting options, then create slides with a specific layout for title slides, slides with text content, and slides with picture or video content.
In order to make the best use of this document, it is important that you are already familiar with creating slides. To learn about designing slide master elements, refer to. To learn about customizing a slide, refer to.
To read about using images, refer to the document. To learn about working with text, read.
Formatting a Slide Master Keeping similar formats throughout your slide master layouts will help to give your presentation continuity. To format a slide master you will be using Slide Master view.
The Slide Master view allows you to work on the slide master and all additional layouts without having to go to a separate view. NOTE: The slide masters control the text formatting (e.g., font style, size, and color), background color, effects (e.g., shadowing and bullets), and placeholders for all designated slides in your presentation. If you make changes to the slide master or a particular layout after it has been applied to slides, only the slides in your presentation based on that layout and slide master are affected. From the View menu, select Master » Slide Master.
The Master toolbar appears. In the Layout Options pane, select the desired slide master. Format the slide master as you would design and format a normal slide. NOTE: Any formatting changes that you make to the first slide will be applied to all master layouts in this slide master. To format additional master layouts within this slide master,. In the Layout Options pane, select the desired slide master, select the desired layout. Design the layout as you would design and format a normal slide.
Continue steps a-b until all desired layouts have been formatted. From the Slide Master toolbar, click Close Master. OR In the lower left, on the Status toolbar, click Normal View. The changes you made to the slide master are applied to all slides. Creating Additional Slide Masters Some formatting decisions must be the same throughout an entire slide master. For instance, you are unable to apply two different themes or two different fonts for slide titles within the same slide master.
If you would like to change these aspects but still want to use a slide master, you can create another slide master within the presentation. The Slide Master view must be open to create additional slide masters.
Open the slide show to which you would like to add a slide master. From the View menu, select Master » Slide Master. The Master toolbar appears. From the Slide Master toolbar, click Insert New Layout.
A new slide master appears. as desired. Applying a Slide Master After you format your slide master and layouts, PowerPoint automatically applies them to your slides. You can, however, select which slide master and layout you would like to apply to an individual slide in your presentation. You can apply slide masters after adding a slide's content without changing the content. From the View menu, select Normal. From the Elements Gallery, select the Slide Layouts tab.
The Slide Layouts pane appears. Select the desired layout and slide master. Creating a Slide that Differs from the Slide Master When designing your slide show, you might need a different format from the slide master for certain slides.
For example, you might need to format the font, background color, or bullet design to differ from the slide master. Or your layout slide might contain a large image in the lower right corner, but for one slide you want text in that corner and do not want the image to display. You need to alter the slide by removing the background graphic. Changes you make to the slide master after customizing an individual slide will not alter changes you have already made to that slide. For example, if you removed a background image or changed the background color of a particular slide, changing the slide master color will not change the color of this slide or reinsert the background graphic.
It will, however, change the background color of any slides that you have not individually changed. Customizing an Individual Slide You can change the font, background color, or bullet design of individual slides to differ from the slide master. To learn about formatting slides, refer to,.
Select the slide you would like to alter. Make the appropriate changes to the open slide. WARNING: Any changes you make to the slide master after customizing an individual slide will overwrite the design of that slide except for the already made custom changes. Removing Background Graphics There are times when the background graphics from the slide master do not fit with the content of a slide in your presentation. You can remove all background graphics from individual slides.
Select the slide you would like to alter. From the Formatting Palette, in the Slide Background section, select Hide Background Graphics. NOTE: The option is selected when a check mark appears.
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Add and edit master slides The slide layouts used in each Keynote theme are based on master slides. When you want to add a slide to your presentation that has particular elements—such as a title and subtitle, a bulleted list, or an image—you select the slide layout that most resembles the layout you want, then you replace the placeholder elements and make other changes as necessary. Only the slide in your presentation is changed; the master slide remains in its original state. If you add new images, text, and other objects to a master, these objects become part of the slide background and aren’t editable in your presentation.
If you want text, shapes, or images on a master slide to be editable in your presentation, you must add them as placeholders to the master slide. You can make the same kinds of changes to a master slide that you make to a regular slide—for example,. The changes appear on every slide in the presentation that’s based on that master. Click View in the, then choose Edit Master Slides.
Do any of the following:. Click in the toolbar, then select a master slide.
In the, select a slide with a layout similar to the layout you want, then press Return. Double-click the name of the master slide in the slide navigator and type a new name. Modify the slide however you like by adding text, images, shapes, placeholders, or other objects.
For more information, see “Add text and media placeholders,” below. When you’re done editing, click Done at the bottom of the slide canvas, or click View in the toolbar, then choose Exit Master Slides. Click View in the, then choose Edit Master Slides.
Select the master slide you want to edit. Do one of the following:. Create a text placeholder:. Create a media placeholder:. Change the item’s appearance however you like and drag it where you want it on the slide.
Select the object you added, then, in the Format, click the Style tab. Near the bottom, select Define as Text Placeholder or Define as Media Placeholder. If you want slides based on this master to allow objects to be layered under master objects, click the background of the slide (so that nothing is selected), then select “Allow layering” in the Format sidebar. To learn more about layers, see. When you’re done editing, click Done at the bottom of the slide canvas, or click View in the toolbar, then choose Exit Master Slides.
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Placeholders are automatically tagged according to type. The tags “tell” the content where to go when you apply a different master to a slide. For example, an image that’s in a placeholder with the tag “Media” is automatically added to a placeholder from the new master that also has the tag “Media.” To change a tag, select the placeholder, then click the Style tab in the Format sidebar. In the text box next to Tag, delete the existing tag, then type your own. A placeholder you can add a table, chart, or image gallery to is called an object placeholder. You can add only one object placeholder to a master slide.
Click View in the, then choose Edit Master Slides. Select the master slide you want to edit. In the Format, select the Object Placeholder checkbox. Resize the placeholder and position it where you want. The first table, chart, or image gallery you add to any slide based on this master assumes the placeholder’s size and position. If you want slides based on this master to allow objects to be layered under master objects, click the background of the slide (so that nothing is selected), then select “Allow layering” in the Format sidebar. When you’re done editing, click Done at the bottom of the slide canvas, or click View in the toolbar, then choose Exit Master Slides.