Microsoft Office Tutorials: Create or customize a slide master

Monday, December 5, 2016

Create or customize a slide master

To understand why you might want to use a slide master, see What is a slide master?

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Create your slide master

Open a blank presentation, and then, on the View tab, in the Master Views group, click Slide Master.
When you open Slide Master view, a blank slide master with the default, associated layouts appears.

Note: In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master is the larger slide image, and the associated layouts are positioned beneath the slide master.
To create a layout, or to customize an existing layout, see Create a slide layout that meets your needs.
To add or modify placeholders in your layouts, see Add one or more content placeholders to a layout or Change or delete a placeholder.
To remove any of the built-in slide layouts that accompany the default slide master, in the slide thumbnail pane, right-click each slide layout that you want to delete, and then click Delete Layout on the shortcut menu.
To apply a design or theme-based colors, fonts, effects and backgrounds, see Apply a theme to add color and style to your presentation or Apply multiple themes to a presentation.
To set the page orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, in the Page Setup group, click Slide Orientation, and then click either Portrait or Landscape.
On the File tab, click Save As.
In the File name box, type a file name.
In the Save as type list, click PowerPoint Template, and then click Save.
On the Slide Master tab, in the Close group, click Close Master View.

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Create your slide master

Open a blank presentation, and then, on the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, click Slide Master.
When you open Slide Master view, a blank slide-master with the default, associated layouts appears. If you want to add another slide master, do the following:
1. Click a location in the slide thumbnail pane where you want the new slide master to appear.
2. On the Slide Master tab, in the Edit Master group, click Insert Slide Master.
  
  Note: In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master is the larger slide image, and the associated layouts are positioned beneath the slide master.
To create one or more custom layouts or to modify existing layouts, see Create a new custom layout.
To add or modify placeholders in your layouts, see Add one or more content placeholders to a layout or Change a placeholder.
To remove any of the built-in slide layouts that accompany the default slide master, in the slide thumbnail pane, right-click each slide layout that you want to delete, and then click Delete Layout on the shortcut menu.
To apply a design or theme-based colors, fonts, effects and backgrounds, see Apply a theme to your presentation.
To set the page orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, in the Page Setup group, click Slide Orientation, and then click either Portrait or Landscape.
To add text that will appear as a footer at the bottom of all of the pages in your presentation, do the following:
1. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Header & Footer.
2. In the Header and Footer dialog box, on the Slide tab, select the Footer check box, and then type the text that you want to appear in the center-bottom of your slides.
3. Click Apply to All.
Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Save As.
In the File name box, type a file name, or do nothing to accept the suggested file name.
In the Save as type list, click PowerPoint Template, and then click Save.
On the Slide Master tab, in the Close group, click Close Master View.