-: Welcome in this lecture,
where I want to explain to you
how PowerPoint templates are made, what they are
and we'll start of course
by telling you what the slide master is.
This is a normal PowerPoint slide.
If I right click, I can change different layouts
some basic PowerPoint layout
but it also says additional here.
This is just my name for my slide master.
It can be named any way you want and we will change this.
I want you to go to view and open up slide master.
If you look what happens here, I will scroll to the top,
we have one big slide and this is exactly the slide master
and some underlying slides under it.
Those are the layout.
Those are layouts that we can change
for our slide to make our design process quicker
because sometimes we know, okay,
we want one big box or we want two big boxes.
We have already layouts prepared for that.
We can add our own layouts or we can even delete layouts.
That's no problem.
So this is how a PowerPoint template is established
but why is there a slide master?
The slide master is the highest in hierarchy.
We can right click,
we can rename the master, call it super master, right?
That's just a name.
But this super master can determine what font do we use,
what colors do we have,
and how regular text on a presentation looks like.
Let me do something like that.
I have a funny presentation
so I want a different font and a font Aharoni.
You don't need to use the same font.
I'm just making you an example
and I have text here, so the second text
I don't want to bullet point it and I want this text,
if anyone makes level two text, I want this text to be red.
Okay, what happened?
Apart from the title slide
because we have master slide,
title layout and then normal layout.
All layouts that contain text inherited the changes
that I made on the slide master, so be very careful.
Whatever you put here
in this slide master, will be applied to all the layout
so you need to be very careful to not put crazy things
on the slide master.
Usually you put here some colors, fonts, how your design
basic design should look like and what your brand guidelines
or your company guidelines are
that should be applied to the entire presentation
you can put it here, but as you can see
you need to be very careful
because all layout will inherit that.
If I would exit now back to PowerPoint
because this is a completely separate place,
and I'm making a new slide, I'm making a different layout,
for example, this to content layout, I'm making some text.
I press enter, I press tab,
and you can see the second text is red
because level two text was determined
in the slide master to be red.
Now we have some problems because it's no longer
a bullet point and the problems cascaded
down because I would need to again click bullet point
I would need to change it to level three.
Now it's back black again.
Be mindful of what you put on the slide master.
You can of course, by hand, change the font back again
but I just wanted to show you the power
of the master slide and one additional thing,
if I go to view slide master, you usually don't do that
but it is acceptable to right click
and have multiple master slides in one PowerPoint file
because sometimes you have a company
and your company makes two types of presentations.
I would suggest to make them
in two separate PowerPoint files
but it is possible to have multiple master slides
within one PowerPoint file.
This way, when I right click, I click layout.
I have my super master with its layout
and now I have this custom design with its layout again.
It gets a little crowded here
but I just wanted to show you the potential
and how this technically works in PowerPoint.
In the next lecture,
I want to show you one more thing about the master slide
and we'll proceed with creating a PowerPoint template.