How to create Slide Master on PowerPoint

To reduce the slide format work in PowerPoint, users can use the Slide Master tool. Slide Master is basically the first slide in a slide branch, containing data including theme and layout in each slide as background color, font, effect, size, .

Each Slide Master is the general interface for all branch slides, each branch slide will have a different layout based on the general format of Slide Master. So with Slide Master users will format the whole slide, or new slides added, save time formatting and manipulation faster. The following article will guide how to create Slide Master on PowerPoint.

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1. How to create Slide Master on PowerPoint

Step 1:

At the first slide interface in PowerPoint, click View and select Slide Master .

Appear Slide Master branch as shown below. Click on the first slide to proceed with the slide format.

Step 2:

You format the slide, insert the content you want such as inserting images, frames, adjusting the font format, inserting images, logos, . Depending on the needs of the user, we format the first slide to use use.

After the first slide has been formatted, click Close master to complete the creation of Slide Master.

Step 3:

Now when you click on the Home tab , select New Slide and will see the slides applied by the Slide Master format created.

When you create a new slide, the format will be applied immediately to the newly added slides. As shown in Figure 3, the slide is the same format, which is not required for each slide.

Thus users have shortened the time and operation when formatting slides on PowerPoint.

2. How to create another format of Slide Master

When you create a Slide Master, the other slides will apply that format. However, while presenting the content, sometimes you require some slides to have a different format than the original Slide Master.

Step 1:

We also click View and select Slide Master . This will display the Slide Master created earlier. Skip the first slide and select another slide below to change the format.

Users enter other content in the slide format you want to use. For example, add an image to a new slide.

Step 2:

After changing the format, click Close Slide Master. Go back to the Home tab and click New Slide and you will see a new slide to create another format.

Step 3:

Click on the slide you want to use and will see the slide in a different format displayed along with the general slide format.

So in 1 Slide Master we can create many different formats, based on the format of the first slide.

3. How to save Slide Master format

To use Slide Master created for future slides, users should save Slide Master again.

Step 1:

Click the Design tab and look down at the Themes section, click the triangle icon to expand the options.

Click Save Current Theme to save the current format.

Step 2:

Display the theme save interface, name this theme and click Save. By default the theme will be saved in the folder C: UsersUserAppDataRoamingMicrosoftTemplates. But you can choose to save to another folder.

Step 3:

To use the saved theme, click on Design and click on the drop-down triangle icon and select Browse for Theme .

Step 2:

Find the theme store folder and click on the theme you want to use.

Soon we will see the previous created theme, including the same slide and different formats.

Thus we have created Slide Master on PowerPoint to use when needed. You just need to create a slide format for the first time, just use it later and add other content to complete the presentation.

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I wish you all success!