

Under Orientation, click the orientation you want. To set the page orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, click Slide Size > Page Setup. To apply a design or theme-based colors, fonts, effects and backgrounds, see Change and save a theme. To remove any of the built-in slide layouts that accompany the default slide master, in the slide thumbnail pane, click each slide layout that you want to delete, and then on the Slide Master tab, click Delete. To create one or more custom layouts or to modify existing layouts, see Create a new custom layout. Note: In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master is the larger slide image, and the associated layouts are positioned beneath the slide master. On the Slide Master tab, click Insert Slide Master. If you want to add another slide master, do the following:Ĭlick a location in the slide thumbnail pane where you want the new slide master to appear. When you open Slide Master view, a blank slide-master with the default, associated layouts appears. If you have multiple themes applied to different slides in your presentation, then you will see a slide master for each one in slide master view.Ĭreate and customize one or more slide masters Slide layouts with formatting inherited from slide master Slide master with formatted title element

The following illustration shows how a change to the slide master, such as applying an orange fill color to the title placeholder, is replicated in the related slide layouts.

If you change the formatting, position, and common elements in the slide master, you don't have to edit individual slides in your presentation.
