Slide and Title Masters

Every PowerPoint presentation contains four different Masters. These are special slides that are “hidden” and serve as templates. They control the appearance (size, color, location, etc.) of all of the objects that can be placed on a slide (regular or title slide), on audience handouts, and on speaker's notes:

• Slide Master
  • affects each slide of the presentation except Title Slides
  • anything added to, deleted from, or anything modified on the Slide Master will change every slide in the presentation except those based upon the Title Slide layout
• Title Master
  • affects only slides based upon the Title Slide layout
  • anything added to, deleted from, or anything modified on the Title Master will change every slide in the presentation based upon the Title Slide layout
  • slides based upon other layouts are not affected
• Handout Master
  • controls elements on the handouts that you print
• Notes Master
  • controls elements on the notes pages that you print

Viewing Master Slides

• choose ViewMasterand then select the desired master from the pop-up submenu

the Slide Master for the High Voltage Design Template

the Title Master for the High Voltage Design Template

Note that in the case of the Slide and Title Masters, there are placeholders for each of the elements on these slides, You can, if you wish,

• change the font, font size, font style, bullet style, and so forth for each of these elements
• change the bullet characters
• change text alignment or color
• change the position of any element simply by moving the object to a different position on the slide
• add or delete graphic elements on the slides
• change the color of any graphic element or the background
• etc.

The Notes and Handouts Masters are similar.

When you are finished working with any Master

• click (this button generally appears when a Master is being viewed)
• or choose ViewNormal

Excuse Me But the Title Master Command is Not Available!

If you choose ViewMasterand the Title Master command is not available in the submenu, there are a variety of reasons. To remedy this situation, simply reapply the Design Template

• choose FormatApply Design Template
• click

Want to place your company or school logo on every slide? If so, then place the logo on the Slide Master!

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last updated August 13, 2003