The basic appearance of presentations depends on masters that contain design elements such as title fonts, bullet list styles, and logo graphics. Use masters to make changes across your entire presentation or to format notes and handouts.

Choose View > Master > Slide Master to display the slide master. Once you’ve modified the slide master (see illustration below), click on the Slide Master View toolbar to apply the changes to your presentation.

Click to close the Slide Master editor

To change your presentation’s title style: click the master title and edit text size, color, font, etc. See Inserting and Formatting Text.

To change text styles: click any text level, then edit text size, color, font, etc.

To change bullet styles: click any text level, then choose Format > Bullets and Numbering. In the Bullets and Numbering dialog box, choose a style and click OK.

To set bullet and paragraph indents: choose View > Ruler. Click inside the text area, then drag the indent markers to set bullet indents for text levels 1 –5. Drag the top of the paragraph indent marker to set paragraph indents, or drag the bottom to move the bullet and paragraph indents in unison.

Level one bullet indent             Level two bullet indent

Level one paragraph indent             Level two paragraph indent

To change the background color of all slides in your presentation: choose Format > Background. In the Background dialog box, click , choose a color from the list, and click

To add a logo to your presentation: choose Insert > Picture > From File, then select your company’s logo in the Insert Picture dialog box and click . Click and drag the logo to position it on the master.

Note: Other masters can be modified in the same manner as the slide master. Choose View > Master > Handout Master or View > Master > Notes Master.