Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step

Add Content to Slides

In Normal view, layout placeholders indicate where you can insert different types of slide content. For example, a Title And Content slide has placeholders for a title and for a bulleted list or a graphic element such as a table, chart, picture, or movie clip.

You can enter content on a slide either into the layout placeholders that are already in place or directly onto the slide.

About Slide Masters

The base content of a slide—the default position of layout placeholders, the default fonts and colors of text within text placeholders, and any background graphics that appear on all pages of a certain type—are stored with the slide masters. Certain slide master elements aren’t editable on the slide; you can change them only from ...