Duplicating slides & the Master slide

CREATING SLIDES QUICKLY

Now we are ready to create the rest of our slides and add in even more media!

Using the Slide Master vs. duplicating slides

Two quick ways of populating your slides with the same layout, headers, etc. are using the Slide Master and duplicating slides. PowerPoint always creates a master slide, when either a design template or color scheme is chosen.

A Slide Master will apply whatever elements you assign to the master slide to each and every slide, except for the first slide (if you choose to skip that one). Additionally, to change an element placed on the master slide, you only edit the master slide. The master slide can be very helpful when setting up multimedia, kiosk displays, or in adding in some elements to a presentation, such as the title to every slide.

A second means (and in some ways, easier) is to duplicate slides.

Duplicating slides is very easy to do.

Duplicate slides easy way

Control + D

OR

Main menu: Edit>Duplicate

Working
with the Master Slide

View>Master>Slide
Master

Note: When you are done editing to return to the Normalview. View>Normal

If you use a master slide and are having trouble removing a box or graphic, double-check to see if it is on the actual slide or the master slide.

Duplicate/create 4 slides.