When you modify one or more of the slide layouts beneath a slide master, you are essentially modifying the slide master.
However, the majority of your changes will likely be to the slide layouts related to the master. When you edit the slide master, all slides in your presentation that are based on that master will contain your changes. The related slide layouts appear just below the slide master. The master slide is the top slide in the thumbnail pane on the left side of the screen. To get to Slide Master view, on the View tab, click Side Master. When you use a slide master, you save time because you don't have to apply styles on more than one slide.
The key benefit to modifying and using slide masters is that you can make universal style changes to all the slides in your presentation, including slides added later. A slide master is the top slide in a hierarchy of slides that stores information about the theme and slide layouts of a presentation, including the background, color, fonts, effects, placeholder sizes, and positioning.Įvery presentation contains at least one slide master that is created automatically when you open a new presentation.
