Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 Plain & Simple

Chapter 10. Working with Slide Masters

In this section:

• Understanding How Slide Masters Work

• Making Changes to a Slide Master

• Adding and Deleting Master Sets

• Working with Handout and Notes Masters

One of the hallmarks of a good presentation is consistency in look and feel. To achieve that consistency, you can use themes and color schemes built right into PowerPoint (see Chapter 7 for more about these). But there may be other elements you want to use consistently from slide to slide, such as a company logo, and it can be cumbersome to have to add these again and again, slide after slide.

That’s where masters come in. Masters allow you to add a graphic, modify the text formatting or slide layout, or add a global footer. Then, whatever you have added ...