Working with Masters


The Slide Master is a template that applies to every slide in the presentation (except slides that use the Title Slide layout, because those take their design from the Title Master template).

When you apply a design template, you are making changes to the Slide Master and Title Master. You can also change those Masters manually to customize the design.

  1. Click on View. The View menu will appear.

  2. Point to Master. The Master submenu will appear.

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  3. Click on Slide Master. The Slide Master view will appear.

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  4. Click on the Slide Master or Title Master to select the one you want to edit.

  5. Make changes as desired. Keep reading to find out some of the changes you can make. You are limited only by how creative and artistic you want to be.

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  6. Click on the Close Master View button when you have finished.

Changing Text Formatting

In Chapter 7, "Formatting Slides," you will learn how to format slide text on a single slide, such as adding bold or italic, choosing a different font, or changing the size. You can do the same formatting to the text on the Slide Master or Title Master to change all the slides at once.

  1. Select the text that you want to format. The text will be highlighted.

  2. Apply text formatting to the text. See Chapter 7 for help, if needed.

Some of the formatting you can apply includes:

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Moving and Resizing Text Placeholders

You can change the size of the Title Area, Object Area, Footer Area, Date Area, and Number Area placeholders.

  1. Click on a placeholder. A border will appear around the placeholder that contains resize handles.

  2. Click and drag a resize handle. A dotted line will show the new size of the placeholder.

  3. Position the mouse pointer over the placeholder. The mouse pointer will become a four-headed arrow.

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  4. Click and drag the placeholder to a new location.

Working with Footers and Special Placeholders

The Slide Master contains placeholder boxes for date/ time, slide number, and footer. These can be moved around or resized (see the preceding steps). You can also turn them on or off.

  1. Click on View. The View menu will appear.

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  2. Click on Header and Footer. The Header and Footer dialog box will open.

  3. Click in the Slide number check box if you want the slides to be numbered.

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  4. Type text in the Footer box if you want footer text on each slide.

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    You can deselect the Footer check box to turn off the footer temporarily, without deleting the footer text that you entered in step 4.

  5. Click in the Don't show on title slide check box if you want to omit all placeholders from title slides.

    By default, the date/time does not appear, even though the placeholder is turned on. That's because Fixed is the default setting, and the Fixed box is blank.

    1. Type today's date in the Fixed box to make it appear on each slide. Then skip to step 9.

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    1. Click on Update automatically to set up an automatic date/time on each slide. Today's date will appear in the box beneath it.

  6. Click on the down arrow next to the date. A menu will appear.

  7. Click on the date format that you want. It will appear in the box.

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  8. Click on the Apply to All button. The footer information on the slide master will be updated.

Applying a Slide Background

You have hundreds of choices for a slide background. You can use clip art from the Microsoft Clip Organizer or that you've found on the Internet, scanned photographs, or images you've created in a graphics program, such as Microsoft Photo Editor. Explore your options.

  1. Click on Format. The Format menu will appear.

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  2. Click on Background. The Background dialog box will open.

  3. Click on the down arrow next to Background fill. A list of color options will appear.

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    1. Click on a placeholder color. A color will be used from the current color scheme. If you change color schemes, the background color will change.

    OR

    1. Click on More Colors and then select a color from the Background Color box. A specific solid color will be used.

    OR

    1. Click on Fill Effects and then select a gradient, texture, pattern, or picture as the background.

  4. Click on Apply to All after selecting a background. The background will be applied to the Slide Master.

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Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Fast & Easy
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Fast & Easy (Fast & Easy (Premier Press))
ISBN: 1592000819
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 158
Authors: Lois Lowe

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