Office 2013 All-In-One Absolute Beginner’s Guide

35. Working with Slide Masters

In This Chapter

• Modifying the Slide Master

• Adding a Slide Master

• Creating a Custom Layout

• Managing Slide Masters

When you deliver a presentation, you want your audience to focus on the message and not be distracted by poor and inconsistent design from one slide to the next. Fortunately, PowerPoint makes it easy to achieve a consistent look in your presentation slides.

Slide masters help you achieve this uniformity by storing data about a presentation’s theme and slide layouts—such as colors, fonts, effects, background, placeholders, and positioning—and applying it consistently throughout your presentation. Each presentation contains at least one slide master. In most cases, you won’t need to do anything ...