Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step

Change the Layout of a Slide

If you decide after you create a slide that you want it to have a different layout, you can easily change the layout by displaying the slide and then, on the Slide Layouts tab of the Elements Gallery, with Apply To Slide selected, clicking the layout you want.

You can make space on a slide for additional content by changing the slide layout to one that supports more content, or by adding a text box or graphic object. For example, if you want to add another layout placeholder to a Title And Content slide, you can do so by applying the Two Content slide layout, from the Slide Layouts tab of the Elements Gallery. You can add any graphic element to a slide, independent of a layout placeholder, by inserting it from the Insert ...