Working with Master Templates in PowerPoint

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Gary for Expert Village. I would like to talk to you about masters and templates for a minute. What a master is, is a way to change the look of every single slide which is one change. So if we go over here to our view and click on master, as we saw before we have different types of views. We have the slide master which is each individual slide. We have the handout master which is a paper that will have slides presented on each page with not necessarily a room to write notes but basically an overview of the presentation on a printed area. Then we have the notes master which we saw was a slide on top and an area on bottom to write notes. So each of those has a master template. If we go ahead and we click on the view of a particular view that we want to edit, right now we are in the notes master. I can go ahead and change here the footer area or the number area or the notes in the body area, I can go ahead and click in here and I can put in a company logo, header, footer or the date or any kind of information that I want, and this will become the template for this particular view. Being in this case, the notes view. So anytime I go and I want to print out the slides in the note view, I will have already the logo and the dates or the slide numbers, any kind of information that I want into the template. So this is creating like a template, a stamp any time that we want to use the notes view. And the same is true for the other master. It is like a master copy so to speak. So we go to the slide master and it is the same way. We have even though it looks like our regular slide but really what it is just one slide and this is the master slide. So any information that I change in this master slide, it is going to appear on every slide. That is why I have all these different areas over here where I can go ahead and click on them and go ahead and change any information that I want. That is going to be the master copy of all the slides. Any information that I put in, will appear on every slide. "