-: Before we start creating,
I wanna tell you what the layouts actually are.
If I am on the home tab, new slide,
I have different layouts to choose from
but I can of course create my own layout.
I'm going to View.
I'm going to Slide Master, back to the Slide Master
and here within the New Slide Master panel
we can insert a Slide Master or insert a layout.
Within a layout, the very basic layout,
an empty layout, has a title that we can select or deselect
and has a footer that we can select on deselect.
By default, it's here,
but unless you enable the footer within PowerPoint
it'll not be visible.
Now, what can you do on a layout?
In essence, you insert placeholders
that make your design process quicker.
Let's say that you very often make a slide
with six text boxes.
Instead of making that,
you can create a layout for yourself,
a layout with text boxes, or for example
three text boxes on the bottom, one, two, three.
You can see we have this weird red color on the bottom.
I need to change it in the moment or delete it back.
So I would have three text boxes.
Now I go to insert placeholder and maybe three pictures.
That would be a layout
that I no longer have to design by hand in PowerPoint
because I can always select this layout
within this one presentation.
You can see it takes a bit of time and practice to do so
but let's pretend that this is a beautiful layout
and I would have that now within my PowerPoint.
What else can you give here?
You can simply take a look at the placeholders.
My favorite placeholder is simply a content placeholder.
A content placeholder allows you to select
if you want a table, picture, chart,
or whatever you would like,
so you are not restricted just to a picture or just to text
because you have a content place holder
and you can select for yourself what that is.
It can be a double edged sword.
Sometimes it's simpler if you want to make sure
that the person who like, like works in this file
later on works only with pictures.
You give him a picture placeholder
and there's no room for mistake,
where with a content placeholder,
there's a lot of wiggle room
and also room for mistakes
because you can select yourself what to put there.
If I would leave that now, slide master, close master view,
I would select this layout to work on.
It's the custom layout.
Completely crazy, but you can see what happens now.
If I drag and drop pictures into PowerPoint
they would be automatically placed here.
I wouldn't have to crop them to make them smaller.
They would be automatically placed within this layout.
So this is the power of a layout.
But a layout has also its problems
because you don't always want your slide to look
exactly like that unless your company tells you so.
Sometimes you want it a bit different
and you can run into a trap of making too many layouts.
Like PowerPoint templates, for example,
the ones that are sold or that are very advanced
can have like 40 or 50 of those layouts
and it's difficult to find something for yourself.
So just keep that in mind.
We will later on create a couple of layouts,
professional layouts, for ourselves, for our presentation,
and I'll show you what to mind and how to do them.
This is all I wanted to explain about layouts.
You now know what a Master slide is,
what the underlying layouts are,
you almost know everything of creating a PowerPoint template
because this is the whole package.