Sometimes when you're working with themes or master slides, there may not be an existing layout that
meets your needs.
So now I'm going to show you how to create your own layout and add it to the theme.
All right, so we're going to get go to view theme builder.
And here you can see all of the different layouts.
Now, if I want to base my layout on an existing slide, I can choose that slide layout and duplicate
it, or I can simply choose new layout with control.
So I chose a new layout, and first thing I want to do is click Rename up here and let's name this layout
sideways.
That layout saves, and now the way my sideways layout is going to work is like this.
I'm actually going to rotate my text.
And I want to rotate the full 90 degrees.
There we go.
I'm going to position it and size it.
So that's a little big, let's go a little smaller on the actual tape.
I think that works.
Get this positioned exactly where I want.
And let's put a shape behind it to contrast a little bit.
So there will use what is that gray color?
Now, right now it's in front of the text, so in order to move it behind, I can control click, choose,
order and send to back.
And I also want to get rid of the borders, so we'll set the border color to transparent.
And I think that looks good.
So this sideways style is just another theme I want to use up perfected here.
We've got to make sure that our gray box reaches edge to edge.
Oh, I like that that looks nice.
OK, so now you'll notice that this is part of the layout set for this particular theme.
And if we go outside of our theme builder into the slides itself, I can create a new slide.
I can then choose a layout for that slide.
And there is the sideways layout, and I can simply click here to add the title.
Designing your slide lab and there you go.
So in this video, I showed you how to add your own custom layout to the theme.