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Designate Master Slide on existing presentation?

Anonymous
2010-07-12T19:42:39+00:00

I have an existing presentation created in 2010 that I would like to designate a particular slide as the master slide.  The company who created this presentation had no idea what I was talking about and I've been through hundreds of forums looking for the answer.  Is there a simple way to select a slide (i.e. slide 3) in my presentation and designate that as the master slide for additional slides I will be adding to my presentation?

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-07-13T03:00:59+00:00
    1. Pick the slide that you want to use as the "slide master."
    2. Assuming that everything you want on your master is on this particular slide, Select everything on that slide expect the text boxes.
    3. Hit Ctrl-X to cut everything from the slide.
    4. Don't panic.
    1. Go to View > Master > Slide Master
    2. A blank slide master for "Title and Text" layouts is available
    3. Hit Ctrl-C to paste every thing on the Master.
    4. With everything still selected, right click and choose send to back.
    5. Reformat the text.
    6. Close slide master view.

    Now each time you Insert > New slide your slide will use the master layout you just designed.

    But like Rick says, there's  a whole lot more to it, but this will get you started.

    Sandy

    Sandy Johnson, Microsoft Office PowerPoint MVP

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-07-12T23:29:06+00:00

    Let's make sure that we are using the same syntax. You could certainly use a slide in a deck as the springboard for creating other slides and you could distribute a deck with just that one slide in it and tell others to create subsequent slides using that slide as its template.

    However. This is starkly different than designating a slide to be a slide master, which you can't do without actually recreating it. If we are speaking technically, creating a slide master would involve designing in Slide Master view, not creating content on a slide. There is no magic checkbox that says "Make this slide a slide master." That would be pretty cool...but also a fantasy.

    So before diving too deep into the weeds here, Thomas, I would throw it back to you to tell us a bit more about which way you want to go and if my reply addresses your question, even though I might not have answered it yet.

    Rick Altman

    The Presentation Summit

    October 17-20 • San Diego CA

    www.PresentationSummit.com

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-07-12T20:05:09+00:00

    I would delete all the other slides, then save your presentation as a template .potx file

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    Michael Koerner

    MS PPT MVP

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    I have an existing presentation created in 2010 that I would like to designate a particular slide as the master slide.  The company who created this presentation had no idea what I was talking about and I've been through hundreds of forums looking for the answer.  Is there a simple way to select a slide (i.e. slide 3) in my presentation and designate that as the master slide for additional slides I will be adding to my presentation?

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-08-25T21:33:32+00:00

    Thanks alot...

    Had the same challenge.👍

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-07-12T20:13:15+00:00

    When you assign a design template a slide master is added to your presentation. The title slide is the master slide and determines the layout of the slides.

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