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master view is a special feature in
PowerPoint that allows you to modify all
the slides in your presentation by only
making changes to one main slide the
slide master this can be a great
time-saver because you can make changes
to your entire presentation without
having to edit each slide individually
right now I'm working on a presentation
for a pasta company and I'd like to add
their logo to every slide manually
adding the image to each slide would not
only be time-consuming but it would also
be harder to get the image aligned the
exact same way on each slide the slide
master is going to make this a lot
easier I'll start by going to the View
tab and then clicking the slide master
command the slide master view may look a
little different from the other views
you've used but don't worry it's not
hard to use a pane will open on the Left
scroll to the top here we have the slide
master and beneath it are the layout
slides
let's try inserting our logo select the
slide master
you can insert a shape or picture here
just like you normally would just go to
the insert tab and click the pictures
command select your image and then click
insert then just move or resize the
picture if you need to
now this image is going to be in the
same location on every slide while I'm
here I think I'd also like to give the
title a new font so it stands out a
little bit from the rest of the text on
the slide I can edit the title font for
each slide by selecting the text here
and then just choosing a new font like I
normally would
let's close the slide master view for a
second and see how our image looks on
the other slides
while the logo looks good and it's in
the upper left corner on each slide but
it looks like we've got two problems
here on my title slide the logo doesn't
show up at all
also this shape is covering the logo on
some of the slides and on others it's
too far down it's okay though we can fix
all of these things by going back to the
slide master view
let's start with the slide where our
logo isn't showing up beneath the master
slide are the layout slides each of
these represents one of the possible
layouts we can use in this presentation
the first slide is the title slide
layout when we hover over it we can see
which slides in the presentation are
using this layout select it and now any
changes we make here will be reflected
on slide 1 so why didn't our logo show
up on this slide well with some layouts
the background graphics may be hidden to
show the graphics all we need to do is
uncheck the hide background graphics box
here and our logo has reappeared along
with the other background graphics now
let's fix the shape that's covering our
logo most of our slides aren't using any
of these layouts so we won't bother with
those but here we can see that several
of our slides are using this layout so
this is the one we want to make changes
to just select it and I'm just going to
move the shape down a little if you want
you can also move resize or delete any
of the placeholders in this view I'm
going to move this placeholder a little
bit so it's aligned with the arrow and
then I'm just going to resize this
placeholder
then just adjust any of the other layout
slides if you need to
let's try editing another layout slide
the title and caption layout isn't being
used in my presentation yet but I'd like
to customize it to create a new layout
that I can use I think I'd like to add a
bold color block behind the title text
to make it really stand out I'll start
by going to the insert tab then
selecting the shapes command and then
just drawing my shape right across the
text here then to make the text visible
again I'll right click and select send
to back
to make the title a little easier to
read I'm going to make it white
and since we have a lot of red on this
slide now I'm going to delete this shape
by selecting it and pressing delete on
my keyboard now let's find the layout we
just edited click close master view if I
click the drop down arrow on the new
slide command we can see the layout here
just click to select it once you've got
everything the way you want it you may
want to use the layouts and other
projects to do this you'll need to save
the theme just go to the design tab
click the drop down arrow in the themes
group and click Save current theme then
just give your theme a name and save it
now you can select this theme whenever
you want to use these layouts