Determine the Overall Appearance of Your Presentation

Presentation designs are presentations with formatting and graphic elements in master views only. Click Apply Design (Format menu) to determine most of the formatting in your presentation.

If you are working on an individual slide and you like what you see, you can change all the slides in that presentation at once without applying a presentation design or changing to the master view. Use the Apply to All button that appears in applicable dialog boxes.

Customize individual slides   The overall appearance that you choose for your presentation might not be the best way to present the information on every slide. You can make changes to a slide by using the commands on the Format menu to override the master formatting for that slide. Add headers and footers   Use headers and footers to include information (such as the date or your company’s name) that you would like to appear on all slides or pages. Click Header and Footer (View menu). Use multiple color schemes   Each presentation design includes a number of different color schemes that you can use. You can also create your own. To apply or change a color scheme, click Slide Color Scheme (Format menu). Notes pages have separate color schemes that you control by using the Notes Color Scheme command (Format menu), which appears when notes page view is active.