Presentations Glossary

Slide Master and Slide Layouts: Using Masters in PowerPoint

Every individual slide that you see within your PowerPoint deck may have its own unique content, but there’s so much consistency as far as the look of successive slides is considered. All slides typically have the same slide background, and also the same fonts. You really don’t have to do anything other than adding new slides and typing in your text. All the formatting is taken care of by some magical behind-the-scenes intelligence within PowerPoint. Also if you print notes pages or handouts from PowerPoint, you will find that these are also formatted to synchronize with the look of your slides. Ever wonder how you can control all this intelligence? Well, the answer is the Masters that are contained within every PowerPoint presentation.

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Tagged as: 04-07, PowerPoint Tutorials, Slide Master and Slide Layouts, Themes Templates Masters and Layouts

Johanna Kneifel

With a background in cognitive psychology and studio art, Johanna Kneifel is all about design and technology that make a social impact. She’s primarily interested in exploring how visual design affects personal perception, and how this can be applied to educational or marketing strategies. Alongside managing amazing design projects at INSCALE, she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where she has been featured:

Presentation Summit 2019: Conversation with Johanna Kneifel
September 30, 2019

INSCALE and PowerPoint’s Morph Transition
March 3, 2017

INSCALE’s PowerPoint Showcase
April 21, 2017

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Dan Bruck

Dan Bruck is CMO at Fasetto, Inc. He thrives at the intersection of art and commerce. His career started in the entertainment industry in Hollywood where he produced and directed network reality TV shows. Transitioning to corporate marketing, Xerox selected him as their Worldwide Creative Director. Crafting corporate tag lines, writing national ads and producing webinars, events and tradeshows with unprecedented ROI gave him the all the experience necessary to transition his career to the CMO role. His well-documented success creating hyper-growth for a series of companies has been achieved by his mastery of online, traditional and live marketing. Dan has degrees in Communication, Marketing and an MBA.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:

Presentation Summit 2019: Conversation with Dan Bruck
September 24, 2019

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Theme Builder Anomalies: Make Themes Compatible with PowerPoint

Working with Themes in various versions of Microsoft Office (and PowerPoint), we stumbled into a huge road-block: Theme THMX files saved in Theme Builder refused to be applied in PowerPoint 2010 (Windows) and 2011 (Mac). Strangely, these THMX files continued to work in PowerPoint 2007 (Windows) and 2008 (Mac). We compared the THMX files created by Theme Builder to those saved from within PowerPoint, and realized that Theme Builder actually removes content from THMX files. Worse, it does so without warning, and you can easily lose all your Slide Layouts, Slide Master, basic presentation info, and even the THMX file’s thumbnail by just opening a perfectly good THMX and re-saving it within Theme Builder! Unfortunately, there are some parameters of a THMX file that are not exposed in PowerPoint. You must edit these either using an XML editor or Theme Builder.

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Tagged as: 04-06, PowerPoint Tutorials, Theme Builder Anomalies, Themes Templates Masters and Layouts

John Korchok

  John Korchok has been creating reliable branded Office templates and web sites for more than 20 years. He is certified as a Microsoft Office Specialist Master, is an award-winning technical writer and is skilled in programming VBA, JavaScript for PDF and web, HTML, CSS, and PHP. John is a moderator for Microsoft Answers and a volunteer at Stack Overflow, providing answers for Word and PowerPoint for Windows and macOS. He currently works for Brandwares in metropolitan New York.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:

Icon Gallery Add-in for PowerPoint: Conversation with John Korchok
February 9, 2023

XML Programming: Setting Default Table Text Size in PowerPoint
May 20, 2020

Introducing XML Hacking in Microsoft Office
May 13, 2020

Presentation Summit 2019: Conversation with John Korchok
September 10, 2019

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