each time you apply a new theme to your
slides a slide master appears in the
background now we can't see it right now
but the slide master stores information
about the theme such as font style
colors effects placeholder size text
alignment and more so what can you do
with the slide master well imagine that
you like this theme but you want to
change specific design elements maybe
you want your slide titles to be
center-aligned instead of left aligns or
a square bullet instead of a circle or
maybe you want to add a line under each
slide title well how can you make
changes like these without changing each
slide individually the answer is simple
make the changes on the slide master you
can use a slide master to change any of
these themes or you can select the
office theme and basically design your
own slides from scratch since the office
theme has a default white backgrounds
and calabria fonts it's like having a
blank canvas to work with let's take a
look at the slide master just select
view on the ribbon and click the slide
master commands in the presentation
views group
this opens the slide master view so that
you can change the design and layout of
the master slides you'll see that after
we clicked the command a new slide
master tab appeared as the active tab on
the ribbon this look is similar to
normal view but we aren't looking at our
actual slides we're looking at the
master slides we have a pane on the left
that includes thumbnail images of the
slides
main slide pain the slides that are
selected on the left is the one that is
displayed in the slide pane just like in
normal view this first slide that is
selected is the slide master all the
slides beneath this one that are
connected with brackets are supporting
layouts if you hover over them screen
tips explain that they are masters for
various layouts we can see that the
title and contents layout is used by
several slides in our presentation the
section header layout is used by only
two slides and this title only layout is
not used in our presentation if you want
to make a change to all the slides in
the presentation you will edit the slide
master let's go ahead and do that do you
remember that I said that default fonts
for the office theme is called calibre
II let's change that for all the slides
and make some other formatting changes
in slide master view select the slide
master now in the edit theme group just
click the fonts command as I hover over
each a live preview of the fonts will
appear on the master slide I like this
one that uses the lucila font now I can
see that it has changed on the slide
master and in all the layouts let's make
another change to all our slides that
will be more noticeable I want to change
the title of each slide so that text is
left-aligned and the font color is
orange first I need to select the title
on the slide master I can't make this
change from the slide master tab like I
could with the fonts theme change so I
need to click the Home tab to access the
commands I need what
I do this the slide master and layouts
remain in the pane on the left because
we are still in slide master view even
though we aren't using that tab right
now I can use the fonts color command in
the font group to change a title text to
orange and the alignment commands to
left align the title text on all the
slides once I make these changes on the
Home tab I can select the slide show
view command and see those changes on
the slides the font is different and the
titles are orange and left aligned when
you are ready you can just press the
Escape key and return to the slide
master tab