Understanding Masters
When you assign a theme to a presentation or add footers to the presentation slides, you are manipulating the master slide for the presentation. The master slide isn’t actually a slide, but is the design blueprint for all the slides, including the background fill, colors, fonts, and effects provided by the current theme. The master slide also provides the positioning and the size of the content placeholders—the title text box and the bulleted list text box—which are present on most slides.
Whatever you do to the master slide is inherited by all the slides in the presentation (that use the master slide for their formatting). For example, if you place a graphic of your company logo on the slide master, the logo appears on ...
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