If you create presentation designs for others, the Theme is the essential mechanism that makes it easy for your clients/colleagues to create slides and objects consistent with your design. I have preached at length about the importance of using a Theme – it helps assure a consistent presentation appearance and includes the presentation Color Scheme and fonts. BasicsĪ Slide Master is one element of a Theme. NOTE: The nomenclature around the Slide Master is not consistent – sometimes it (or the Master Layout) is called the Master Slide. This post will attempt to describe how to use this capability and why you should. The mechanism behind this is the Slide Master. (I can’t avoid the suspicion that this is how at least some of the millions of bad presentations in the world are made. Start a new PowerPoint presentation and a slide appears with two boxes one says “Click to Add Title” and the other says “Click to Add Subtitle.” Do what it says and then click on Insert/New Slide – a slide with a title and a bullet list appears! Fill in the blanks and do it again thirty or forty times and you’re done!
