Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 Plain & Simple

Working with Layouts

A slide layout in PowerPoint is like a blueprint for a house; it establishes the various types of "rooms" that appear on your slide. Just as certain types of rooms contain certain types of furniture, slides can contain different types of objects. A title and content slide will hold a title and bullet list, while a picture with caption layout will hold an image and some text describing it. The placeholders in a layout automate tasks involved with creating and formatting contents specific to each type placeholder.

Apply a Layout

1. Display the slide whose layout you want to change and click the Home tab.

2. Click the Layout button to ...