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Friday, November 15, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 1:25 pm

The moment you add a Slide Number to your slides in Normal view, you expect to see them immediately thereafter. However many times you may not see any Slide Number, or worse, you may see the Slide Number in just a few of the slides! The reason this happens is because Slide Numbers can appear only if the slides have a Slide Number placeholder, if you add Slide Numbers to a slide that has no Slide Number placeholder, then you won’t see any Slide Number!

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Thursday, November 7, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 3:12 pm

Slide Masters govern several default attributes for your slides such as the slide background, font choices, colors, and even the positioning of the placeholders. In many ways thus, Slide Masters are the backend workers of your presentation. And even though Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2003 only include limited functionality, you can still use this functionality to either edit existing Slide Masters or even create your own Slide Master.

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Wednesday, November 6, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 9:47 am

To make far reaching changes to your slides within PowerPoint, you should always consider making these changes within the Slide Master rather than within individual slides. Not only will this save you a load of time, but it will also make your slides look more consistent and professional.

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Monday, November 4, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 5:22 pm

Have you ever applied a new Slide Master to existing slides in PowerPoint, and then found that the old Slide Master just disappeared! Poof, how did that happen? The typical answer to that question is your existing Slide Master was not “preserved”, and since no slides used it anymore, PowerPoint just decided to clean it up altogether. So if you don’t want this to happen again, then you must preserve your Slide Masters.

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Friday, November 1, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 3:03 pm

Adding a new Slide Master to your presentation is easy, and an even easier way is to possibly duplicate an existing Slide Master. You can then format it to change its look by applying a Background Style or by adding a custom background. You can also add new Slide Layouts, etc. But why would you do all these tasks in the first place?

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Applying Slide Masters to Individual Slides in PowerPoint 2013

Applying Slide Masters to Individual Slides in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Applying Slide Masters to Individual Slides in PowerPoint 2011

Applying Slide Masters to Individual Slides in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 04 07 09
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