MasterView International
by Luigi Canali De Rossi
March 14th, 2003
Often you will find yourself in front of a presentation of
which you want to change the look. This can be easily achieved
by simply going to "View >> Master >> Slide Master"
and changing the look of the Master slide. Since this slide is
actually a template for all others, all of the changes done in
it will affect the rest of the slides in the presentation.
Let me remind you that a presentation should always be created
in three main steps:
1) Writing the outline,
2) Applying the formatting and overall design of the
presentation in Master Slide.
3) Making individual changes on slides (or making them
different from the overall design)
Problems arise when you skip the first two steps: When you
change the look of the Master Slide the look of the other
presentation slides will not change.
The reason is that PowerPoint will "presume" that you don't
want to follow a Master Slide, if you skip the first two steps
of the creation process (Outline > Master Slide) and go
directly to edit your presentation in Slide View.
