Working with Master Slides

Quick reference

• 00:04 When we add a new slide to our slide deck,
• 00:06 you will notice that there are several slide layouts for us to choose from.
• 00:11 These slide layouts are defined by the one who designed the theme,
• 00:14 Apple in this case.
• 00:15 Apple decided that there should be 12 layout styles to choose from,
• 00:18 and they should be designed in a specific way.
• 00:22 These are called master slides, and they are very handy because it takes some of
• 00:25 the busy work out of adding slides that will contain specific types of data.
• 00:30 For example, if we wanted to add a new slide that contained an image and
• 00:34 some bullet items, we can simply choose to add this slide layout here.
• 00:39 This is great, but what if we wanted to customize one of these master slides to
• 00:43 suit our specific needs?
• 00:44 No sweat.
• 00:46 Any and all of the included themes can be edited on a case by case basis.
• 00:51 In this example, I want to add a logo to the lower right hand corner of our slides.
• 00:56 To make a change to a master slide, we first need to reveal those master slides.
• 01:00 We do this by going to View and choosing Edit Master Slides.
• 01:05 The bold blue line at the bottom is a good visual reminder that
• 01:09 any changes we make here may affect our entire slide deck.
• 01:13 Before adding our logo let's first clean up a little bit.
• 01:16 For this presentation we don't need most of the slide layouts that
• 01:19 come with this theme.
• 01:21 Because we don't need them, we can simply remove them from the list like this.
• 01:26 One thing to keep in mind here is that the changes we make in this slide
• 01:30 deck are non-destructive to the generic theme itself.
• 01:33 In other words, if we wanted to create a new file using the same theme,
• 01:37 we will still have the master slides that we just removed.
• 01:41 Now that we're done,
• 01:42 let's take a look to see what implications this had on our slide deck.
• 01:45 When we add a new slide, we're now limited to only two options,
• 01:49 which is exactly what we expected when we made these changes.
• 01:53 Let's go back in and make some other changes to our master slides.
• 01:56 Namely, adding our logo to the bottom corner.
• 02:00 Adding an image is just as easy as you would expect.
• 02:03 We simply drag and drop it onto our canvas.
• 02:06 The only difference now is that each slide in our slide deck that
• 02:09 uses this particular layout will automatically contain our logo.
• 02:13 Watch as we add new slides to our slide deck.
• 02:18 At this point, we can dress up our master slides as little or as much as we need to.
• 02:23 We can add more objects, add shadows or
• 02:25 reflections to those objects, even add video.
• 02:28 One limitation that we have whenn working with master slides is with animations.
• 02:33 We won't be able to add builds or actions to our master slides.
• 02:36 Outside of that, it's time to let your creativity take over.
• 02:40 Take some time now to make changes to an existing master slide and
• 02:43 see what happens when you do.
• 02:45 I think you will be amazed at how flexible it can be for you.

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