There’s the option on the Slide Master tab to insert a blank layout. Turning back to Slide Master view, here is a handy keyboard shortcut you can use to open the view: Press Shift as you click the Normal button. Keep in mind that if you have already made design changes to a slide in Normal view, and then, you change the master layout that is applied to it, then you’ll need to reapply the layout in Normal view to get the latest changes. Here’s the title slide, with the new, brighter background, title color change, and larger subtitle.Īnd here’s the section header slide it has the new background and the subtitle font changes. They’ve been applied for the appropriate layouts. Let’s switch to Normal view and have a look at these changes. I’d also like to increase the subtitle font size, up to 32.įor the Section Header layout, I’ll leave the title font color as it is, but I’ll change the subtitle font to match the body text and other subtitles, dark green. With the placeholder selected, I click the HOME tab and change the font color to dark green. This image is just a little bit brighter than the slide master’s background, and now the title and section header slides are unique.įor the Title Slide layout, let’s make its title font color different, too. Picture or texture fill is already selected in the Format Background pane, and I’ll click File to choose the picture. So, I’ll select them, click Background Styles, and Format Background. I am going to use a slightly different background for these. Let’s move up the Section Header layout, just to group it with the title layout. The two layouts we’ll customize first are the Title Slide layout and the Section Header layout.

So, these are the layouts I want to keep. Then, you can Copy one of the original layouts and Paste it under the customized master, and it takes on all the master attributes.

If it turns out you need one of the deleted layouts, you can click Insert Slide Master to get a new blank master. Note that if the layout is currently applied to any slides, like this Title Slide layout or this Title and Content layout, you can’t delete it. This simplifies what you are working with and helps keep the file size smaller. To delete a layout you don’t need, select it, and press Delete. One thing you’ll see is that PowerPoint provides many default layouts, probably more than you’ll need. Let’s do more with customizing the slide master by customizing master layouts.

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