{"id":63,"date":"2016-08-30T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/figartconsulting.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:28:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:28:15","slug":"what-are-master-slides-and-why-are-they-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figartconsulting.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/30\/what-are-master-slides-and-why-are-they-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Master Slides and Why Are They Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I do not think a PowerPoint presentation is a substitute for learning to speak well, I do think that if you have that presentation down pat, visual aids can help.<\/p>\n

For me, Master Slide are like formatting a Word document in Styles. It streamlines the creation process, helps with consistent formatting, and allows the designer to apply universal changes to large presentations both quickly and globally.<\/p>\n

What is a Master Slide?<\/h1>\n

\"\"A Master Slide is a series of slides and sub-slides that control the layout and appearance of a PowerPoint presentation. From here you can control themes, colors, fonts, and individual slide layouts.<\/p>\n

Master Slides Save Time<\/h2>\n

Have you ever created a presentation and had a colleague or supervisor praise it to the skies\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 except they didn’t like the font, and thought the color scheme was juuust the wrong shade of fuchsia?<\/p>\n

If you have not formatted your presentation using the Master Slide options, but instead have formatted slide by slide, that 80 slide presentation is going to take forever<\/em> to update!<\/p>\n

If you have formatted using Master Slides, you’ll make the corrections on one Master Slide, then have those corrections populate throughout your presentation.<\/p>\n

How Do I Use a Master Slide?<\/h1>\n

Here’s a little secret. All presentations have Master Slides. It’s just that so many of us don’t use them.<\/p>\n

To access the slide master:<\/p>\n

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  1. Activate the View tab.<\/li>\n
  2. Click Slide Master.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    From here, you will access a Master Slide and various layouts available in your presentation. If you can do it to a slide, you can do it to a Master Slide, so this is where you can get creative. You can apply headers and footers to the slide globally, add a background image to all slides, control the font, color and layout of each slide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    While I do not think a PowerPoint presentation is a substitute for learning to speak well, I do think that if you have that presentation down pat, visual aids can help. For me, Master Slide are like formatting a Word document in Styles. It streamlines the creation process, helps with consistent formatting, and allows the … <\/p>\n

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