Useful functions and applications - 2

Today, I’m going to introduce another useful function of PowerPoint – Slide Master(投影片母片).

As the presentation is about to finish, the change of, for example, the font of the entire document may be very trivial. So, we might want a tool to help us handle these problems. Don’t be worry. Slide Master is just there at hand. It’s quite handful for everyone to use…as long as you find it under “view(檢視)” in the upper toolbar.

After you finally find the icon and click it, a new, blank document will be opened. This is where called “Slide Master”, where we can easily change the settings of the whole document.

 As you can see, there are many pages in the slide master, every single page signifies one kind of all the default settings. By changing the settings (eg. Fonts, frame location, bullets(項目符號)……etc.) we can then obtain the overall change after we close the slide master. Note that the settings of the first slide is prior to the others under it.

The slide master can also be set up at the very beginning of your work. It will be quite convenient if you have a preferred set of presentation in you mind, thus you can swiftly complete all the settings of the report.

But if we want two different set of pages combined in one document, what should we do? One simple way is just make two reports and then do some copy and paste. Another approach is to use the slide master. First we insert a new slide master(slide master 2):

For example, if I set the background blue in slide master 2, then I can obtain a page of the second setting by a right click on the new page:

Then we can put various kinds of settings altogether in a single document rather than many.

It’s all for today’s coverage of slide master. Hope you find it useful~