Chapter 2. Handling Master Slides and Master Styles
In This Chapter
Introducing master slides and master styles
Understanding how to use master slides
Changing the formats and layouts of master slides
Creating a second Slide Master
Reversing your design changes to slides and master slides
Removing a graphic from the background of one slide
The purpose of this chapter is to make your slide presentations stand out in a crowd. In this chapter, you learn how master slides and master styles can help you redesign a presentation. You discover how these tools make it possible to reformat many different slides immediately.
Master slides can save you hours and hours of formatting time, but to use them wisely, you have to know how master slides work, so this chapter starts with a rather lengthy explanation of master slides and master styles. Then you find out how to use the different master slides, how to reformat the slides, and how to change their layouts. This chapter also looks at how to ditch your design if you make a hash of it and want to go back to using a standard PowerPoint design for your presentation.
Using Master Slides and Master Styles for a Consistent Design
Consistency is everything in a PowerPoint design. Consistency of design is a sign of professionalism and care. In a consistent design, the fonts and font sizes on slides are consistent from one slide to the next, the placeholder text frames are in the same positions, the text is aligned the same way across different slides, and the ...
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