Digitizing Your PDD

Setting Up Presentation Masters

Masters allow you to make design decisions that will then affect each slide or page in the presentation. There are masters for Slides, Title Slide, Handouts and Notes.

You can make decisions about text, including placement, font styles and sizes; bullet styles; footers; objects; and images. Individual slides can deviate from the master (see working with the slide background), but each new slide will follow the master specifications.

You should set up the master before building any slides. When you create the master first, all slides you add to the presentation will be based on that master. If, however, you build slides before establishing the master, some items on the slides may not change to conform. Any text or object you place on the master will display on every slide in the presentation in the location that you placed it on the Master.

To create a Master , choose VIEW : Master. Then, choose the master you wish to create from the list.

NOTE: Title Master is only available after you have applied a Design Template.

Text Guidelines
To make font changes on the master , highlight the text that you want to change, then make the changes using the tools on the Text Toolbar . For example to change the title text to 44-point Helvetica, highlight the words "Click to edit Master title slide," then choose Helvetica and 44 from the font face and type size boxes, respectively.

When making choices about fonts in the presentation, keep these guidelines in mind:

• Text will be easier to read when formatted in a sans serif font such as Arial or Helvetica.

• Slide titles should be no less than 44-point type.

• Body text should be no less than 24-point type in order to remain clearly readable to all your audience.

Headers & Footers
The Slide Master shows you the default location of any date, slide number, or textual footer that you choose to use.

NOTE: When you apply a Design Template, these default locations may be hidden behind the Design itself, so wait until you have applied it before making any footer choices.

To insert text into the footer ,

• Choose VIEW : Header and Footer.

• Make sure that Footer is checkmarked , then type the text in the Footer text box.

To insert a date ,

• Choose VIEW : Header and Footer.

• Make sure that the Date and time option is checked.

• Choose either Update automatically or Fixed .

• Update automatically updates the date and time on your presentation slides each time you open the presentation.

• Fixed allows you to type a specific date into the box that will be displayed on your slide.

To insert a slide number ,

• Choose VIEW : Header and Footer.

• Click the checkbox for Slide Number.

NOTE: Click the checkbox if you prefer that the footer not be displayed on your title slide. You can not selectively choose to include or omit individual footer items from the title slide.

To insert objects, images, and diagrams that will appear on each slide in your presentation, create or insert the object, size it, and move it to the location on the Slide Master where you want it to display on each slide.

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