Make a base for all your slides, then later global changes are easy.
We’ve seen too many people making the same change to slide after slide when they could have done it in a few seconds with some preparation.
Before you do anything on a presentation – check out the Slide Master to create a common basis for all the slides. In the Slide Master you can set the background, including an organization logo, fonts, colors etc.
In Powerpoint 2007/2010 go to View | Slide Master and the Slide Master tab will appear. In Powerpoint 2003 go to View | Master | Slide Master.
Now you’re in Slide Master view, you can setup the options to apply to all slides:
There is a list of available layouts for various arrangements of placeholders for headings, text, images etc. You can add, remove or change the layouts to suit your needs.
Setup the overall design elements. Fonts, colors, background, title, footer and effects. You can do this with themes (where available) or make your own.
If all this sounds like a Word template , you are not wrong. To save the slide master and use it in multiple presentations go to Save As and choose the file type ‘PowerPoint Template’ (.pot or .potx).
Now you have a slide master, overall changes are easy. The company changes its logo – go to the slide master, make the change and like magic the new logo is on all slides. Your boss doesn’t like the font, change the slide master.
