Learn about Slide Master view in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. This is the view that lets you access the Slide Master in PowerPoint, and make edits to Slide Masters and Slide Layouts.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
OS: Windows 7 and higher
Slide Master view is a very important view within PowerPoint 2013, if you make any changes or edit within this view, these modifications will influence all slides within your presentation. For example, if you want to make your company logo appear on all the slides, you will have to add the logo within the Slide Master, or if you want the font size of your slide titles to be a little larger or smaller, then those edits also need to be made in the Slide Master.
Having said that, this page is not a tutorial on how you can make changes in the Slide Master but just a brief overview of how you can access the Slide Master view, how the interface in this view appears, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Slide Master view in PowerPoint 2013
Figure 1 above shows how a typical Slide Master looks like. Here are some guidelines on working in this view:
To access the Slide Master view, you can choose either of these options:
Once you are in Slide Master view, you can edit the actual Slide Master(s) and its Slide Layouts, as explained in the following tutorials:
To go back to Normal view from Slide Master view, choose any of these options:
See Also:
Views: Slide Master View in PowerPoint (Index Page)
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