Curriculum Area: Language arts Grade Level: Elementary school and up Application: Microsoft® PowerPoint® version 2002 Tip: Use the slide master to customize a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
Description:
When you create a presentation from a Design Template, a slide master is part of this presentation. The slide master stores information about the template such as which fonts and font styles you want to use, which background design you like best, and which color scheme you prefer. If you make a formatting change or add clip art to the slide master, all other slides based on that master will update. Using slide masters is a quick and efficient way to modify the look and style of a presentation. Keep in mind that PowerPoint version 2002 allows you to have more than one Design Template and more than one slide master in the same presentation.
Examples of changes that can be made to a slide master:
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Change the font of all the titles to Comic Sans in size 48, bold, dark blue, shadowed, and centered.
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Select the same font and font color for the text of all the bulleted lists.
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Change all first-level bullets to be diamonds, all second-level bullets to be flowers, and all third-level bullets to be solid circles.
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Add a small, digitized picture of your school to a corner of the slide master so that the picture will appear on all other slides in the same location (except for slides with a title slide layout).
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Add the name of your school or project to the corner of all the slides.
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Add the date of your presentation to the corner of the slides.
Create a new PowerPoint presentation, or open one that you have already created. Make sure to select a Design Template for the presentation, otherwise a slide master will not be available.
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Create a few slides in your presentation.
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On the View menu, click Master, and then Slide Master. Along the left side of your window, there will be two slides: one to represent the slide master and the other to represent the title master. Any changes you make to the slide master will be reflected on all slides in your presentation except for slides with a title slide layout. Note that the changes that you make to the title master will only be reflected on slides with a title slide layout; no other slide layouts will be affected.
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Click the slide master image at the top-left of the window.
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To make a change in the master title area, click once within the main title area, and then make any changes you want to the font, size, style, color, or alignment.
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To make a change in the bulleted list, click once within the line that you want to change, and then make your adjustments to the font, style, color, alignment, or even the bullet.
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To add a picture to the master slide, insert clip art or a digital image the way you normally do, by selecting Picture on the Insert menu. Be sure to move the picture to a location off to the side so that it will not interfere with the text on each slide. You might need to make the picture smaller so that it will not be in the way of the text.
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Continue to make changes to the slide master as needed.
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Click the title master slide at the top-left to make adjustments to the title master.
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Click Close Master View on the Slide Master View toolbar when you are finished. Notice that all slides based on the slide master will show the changes that you made, as well as any changes that you made to the slides with a title slide layout.
You can change the Design Template for one slide or a group of slides in the same presentation. In Normal view or Slide Sorter view, select a single slide or press CTRL+click to select a group of slides. Then click the Design button on the Formatting toolbar. With a slide or group of slides selected, click a different template from the list of choices in the Slide Design task pane. Only the selected slide or slides will change to the new template.
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If your presentation contains more than one Design Template, you will be able to modify the slide master and title master of each template.
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If you copy slides from one presentation to another, feel free to change the Design Templates as needed because you might need to maintain the template from one file to another.
