MasterView International
by Luigi Canali De Rossi
September 15th, 2002
You may have noticed the presence, under the "View" >>
"Master" menu, also of Handout Master and Notes Master.
What are they for? What is the difference between them and the
Slide Master?
Handout Master:
by choosing this option, you will be able to edit or slightly
modify the appearance of all the printouts you will get when
printing choosing the option "handouts".
Once you have displayed the Handout Master ("View" >>
"Master"
>> "Handout") you have four text boxes, in the four
corners, where you can type any additional information you would like to
appear ONLY in the handout but not in the slides or in your
presentation. You can add any text info by clicking on any of
the four text boxes (the header and the footer) and type your
text, which will be displayed in your printouts.
Check also the following article about "Header and Footer"
because it is strictly connected to this.
Notes Master:
what you can do when you select the "Notes Master" is more or
less the same as the Handout Master. In this view, you can add
your specific headers and footers by using the same method
shown above, and you can also modify the style of the text that
will appear in the printouts of your notes.
When you choose to show the notes in the Notes Page view mode,
you have the preview of each slide and some room below for
writing speakers' notes which you can print to help you
remember what you have to say during your presentation.
Therefore the Notes Master can be used to apply headers and
footers and also to format, as you would like, the text which
will be printed below the slide preview when printing the Notes
Pages.
You also have another Master, the Title Master (not in
PowerPoint XP).
Sometimes the Title Master option is there but it is grayed
out. That means that you need to create a Title Master since it
is not present yet.
In order to create a new Title Master, you can do the following:
a) Click on "View" >> "Master" >>
"Slide Master"
b) Click on "Insert" >> "New Title Master"
or alternatively, only if you have PowerPoint 97 or 2000:
a) Hold down the [Shift] key
b) Press the "New Slide" icon
The Title Master works as a normal Slide Master. The only
difference is that it applies ONLY to those slides which have a
Title layout. Then you can easily use it as a second Slide
Master: any time that you want your slides to be formatted as
the Title Master, apply to them the Title layout and they will
change according to the Title Master.
You can read this article in the original issue of MasterView.
