The Master Slide controls the look of your entire presentation.
Only then can we understand why do we really need it.Ī Slide Master is basically a design template that stores all information about your slide layouts, fonts, themes, colors, etc. So let’s be on the same page and understand what it is. Now, many of the old PowerPoint users know this already. Let me pass on the PowerPoint wisdom in the simplest of words: Only until recently, a professional designer explained me this seemingly complicated process in a minute and since then, I am full of admiration for this PowerPoint feature. Specifically, which was the Title Slide, Text Slide, and Section Header slide? Despite clear instructions in PowerPoint, I had trouble understanding what slide 1 was and what to do with the slides underneath it. The first step was easy- Click the View tab on the PowerPoint Ribbon and click Slide Master.Ī row of black and white slides opened on the screen, which was frankly quite scary, and made me instantly close the Master View. What could be the harm in knowing how to use Slide Master? So, I googled “how to use slidemaster in PowerPoint”, opened the Microsoft Office article and followed the instructions.
“It kills creativity,” I argued (I remembered the boring to death HR presentations). “You don’t know how to use Slide Master!” a shocked HR professional said when I revealed that I had never used the same.
