PowerPoint Slide Master tutorial - Placeholders and Basics ✔

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With this tutorial I would like to answer the most burning questions about the PowerPoint Slide Master / Master Slide view. I will showcase how to add layouts, how to edit the current layouts, how to operate and add (or delete) placeholders for content or pictures. We will also talk how to shoot firebolts out of your fingers and when master slides (or rather layouts) are useful and when not.
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[@danielvanginkel7081]

This was the best powerpoint tutorial I have ever seen. Finally someone who tells you how to make master pages in a concise way. Great stuff!

[@andrewpach]

Wow, thanks! You are too kind Daniel. I was a bit slow in this tutorial but this is a complicated topic (usually) so I wanted to explain each thing in detail, step by step ;)

[@radharcanna]

That’s the best and clearest description of layouts I’ve seen. Thank you.

[@andrewpach]

Thank you so so much for commenting! Yes this is a topic that is widely misunderstood in the community. Happy to help!

[@icebeam23860]

Finally! This is the level of PowerPoint design I need. Your tutorials are amazing and finally I can fully get a grasp on the use of Master Slides. I'll be subscribing now!

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Very kind of you to say, you are welcome to our little powerpoint / animation / design family, make yourself at home hah :)

[@RealityCheck1980]

Excellent tutorial, the ‘light switch’ turned and the video took less than 10 minutes! Also I had no idea you could drag and drop multiple pictures into the intersected shapes! That will save so much time! Big THANKS!

[@chrispainter2557]

I am so glad I found this video!! Thank you! I needed this basic knowledge of Master Slides. You are a life saver. Thanks!

[@andrewpach]

You are very welcome Chris, thank you for commenting!

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[@andrewpach]

How AWESOME to hear that, glad you did. Thats one of the reasons I started this channel, my collegues also had "mediocre" presentations so I wanted to up the game

[@sansantho]

Very useful video which can understand too easily for all age group peoples. What a voice. Super.....

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much @sansantho! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :) I'm glad you like my voice and the vid

[@3ax]

For the first time I completely understand the slide master

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much @3ax! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

[@superdracorex7634]

Thank you so much for this video . I like your quiet and perfect diction. I’m french and i can understand you really easily. It’s a miracle !

[@andrewpach]

Thank you my friend that is very encouraging and nice to hear!! Do you sometimes have trouble underestanding english from tutorials or ? or usually there is some trouble with non-native tutorial makers like me :D I'm trying to improve my studio lately!

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[@andrewpach]

Okay glad to know and encouraging that you understood me! All the best from Poland :)

[@muttalipkaplan910]

Thanks for such a clear explanation 👌

[@andrewpach]

Glad it was helpful!

[@petea1uk]

Great explanation on something that has always escaped me. Thank you 👍🏻

[@andrewpach]

Thank you my friend, appreciated !

[@besttunes8613]

Thanks for such a clear explanation - you've really helped me.

[@andrewpach]

Glad it helped!

[@vshighlights8375]

Love u so much 💓 thanks a lot for this I saw thousands of videos and finally I got how to plaace a picture holder thank you thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘

[@andrewpach]

Glad I could help! And thank you for the kind comment, glad you learned about pic placeholder here :)

[@solomontumu726]

Thank you, I now understand power point layouts much better.

[@andrewpach]

Glad it helped! This is an important but often misunderstood topic :)

[@ankita2648]

Thanks a lot!! This is exactly what I need!!

[@andrewpach]

Great to hear!

[@EliSamba]

Brilliant stuff friend, Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much Eli Samba! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

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You are too kind, glad this tutorial did help you!

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[@EnixTutorials]

thank you so much, easy to understand

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much my friend, glad you checked the tut out :)

[@c_boz3062]

Fantastic tutorial - well explained and fast to grasp.

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much c_boz! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

[@vidirisya8522]

This video is so helpful and somehow calming. Thank you!

[@andrewpach]

You're so welcome! Glad you enjoy my voice as well :P

[@melissawasserman869]

Thanks for this! I'm new to PowerPoint and I finally got it. And your voice is very soothing. :)

[@andrewpach]

Awesome! Thank you! Also glad you like my voice haha, makes me want to create more!

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[@andrewpach]

That means something! Thank you for helping the channel out :) Appreciate

[@jiimms9288]

This is more than what I expected!

[@andrewpach]

Thank you, but I hope you will solve the picture placeholder issue!

[@yuliiacheban]

That's amazing! First tutorial I opened and it's exactly that one I was looking for! So simple and clear explanation :))) Thank a lot! Immediate subscription)

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much Yulia! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :) Thx for the sub as well ;)

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[@andrewpach]

You are too kind Nedzad, thank you for watching and commenting!

[@mohamedeladham3862]

The Slides Master ! Thanks

[@andrewpach]

haha thank you man

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[@andrewpach]

Glad you found this tutorial then :)

[@kishank439]

Simple to understand and a great video.thank you.

[@andrewpach]

You are welcome! Thanks for commenting Kishan :)

[@alexdarcy413]

Thank you so much. Easy teaching, easy learning...

[@andrewpach]

Glad you say so, thanks for commenting

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Excellent. Thank you!

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much Marianna Moumdji! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

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Thank you very much laviolist! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

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[@andrewpach]

Aviad that is so nice to hear, thank you mate!

[@justinnguyen9718]

Brilliant! 👏

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much Justin Nguyen! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

[@meridianumi]

Thank you! I was having real-time issues with MasterSlide :D

[@andrewpach]

Glad I could help!

[@Hans-qi3wq]

Thank you! Excellent introduction, and enough to get going quickly.

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much Hans! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

[@paigejones9954]

trying to learn powerpoint after being a master with indesign and illustrator, thanks for making my life a million times easier!

[@andrewpach]

Happy to help! Nice to hear that you have some design background - will be much easier for you overall ;)

[@fadilahothman289]

Awesome! Hope to shoot fireballs from my fingers soon. But seriously, very good explanation. Thank you.

[@andrewpach]

Exactly, don't mind the slide master since the fireballs are way more important and bettter :)

[@patriciar.4903]

This is a great tutorial. Thank you.

[@andrewpach]

You're very welcome!

[@JC_Deutscher]

thanks! very useful and easy to follow tutorial

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much JC Deutschland! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

[@bstorm44]

Love the fire!!!

[@andrewpach]

I know, best part of the video haha ;d

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[@andrewpach]

Thank you Francesco you are more than kind to me, glad to have you as a viewer and also student, big kudos towards you :)

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[@jerg83]

Nice tips on this section. I didn’t knew how that one works. 👍🏼

[@andrewpach]

Now you know :D There is more info about the master slides and templates but these are the important basics!

[@reminators]

Wow, that was very helpful and easy to understand. I will test it out. Thanks man!! Edited: Liked!

[@andrewpach]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for the like :D

[@ybr2192]

Thanks a lot! For many years I was wondering what those series of slides were below the main slide in' Slide master' ' section! Thanks for the Gyaan.

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much balachandra rao! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :) Yeah slide master is a bit awkward to deal with!

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[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much Hard Labour! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

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Thank you very much Amal Nagi! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :) You are too kind, glad you enojyed it

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[@andrewpach]

Glad you liked it!

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[@wonderland4543]

Nice tutorial.

[@andrewpach]

Many many thanks

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[@andrewpach]

Glad you enjoyed it! also the entertainment part haha

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Very nice of you to say, thank you mate, I hope I will :)

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Thank you very much

[@andrewpach]

You are welcome

[@TimRubel]

great demo of custom shapes

[@andrewpach]

Thank you :)

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[@andrewpach]

Of course Kevin, thank you for watching!

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[@andrewpach]

Thank you :)

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[@andrewpach]

Glad to hear that! Have a great rest of the day ;)

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Thank you very much Isaac Awad! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

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[@andrewpach]

No problem 😊

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Glad it was helpful!

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Sure thing, thanks for watching!

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[@andrewpach]

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amazing

[@andrewpach]

You’re welcome @therealtroy8275😊 Thank you for leaving a comment and helping me out as well!

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Great tutorial!

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Thank you very much Yashita Jain! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

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[@andrewpach]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@daledietrich2715]

Thanks. I enjoyed the finger fireballs. Wasn't clear here how to save this template for future use. I'm worried it would overwrite the exisiting default blank template. So I didn't save it.

[@andrewpach]

Just don't worry about the default template, yeah. Even if you delete it (For this particular presentation) it will be again there when you start a new file and even if it wouldn't it isn't anything special so loosing it wouldn't matter haha :)

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Nice

[@andrewpach]

Thanks

[@heathernoakes5312]

Well presented. Your funny.

[@andrewpach]

Thank you kindly! I always like to drop in a little humour ;P

[@annolah9050]

Thank you so much! This helped a lot...!

[@andrewpach]

You are very very welcome :)

[@muhammadyounus7691]

Thank you

[@andrewpach]

Thank you very much Muhammad Younus! Appreciate you watching and commenting, that helps! :)

[@HighlyAmbitiousYellowAlbatross]

how to apply the cuztomizations how to apply picture background how the main title (or everything) stays at every slide

[@andrewpach]

How to apply customizations? You can go to VIEW > SLIDE MASTER > and apply them inside any layout you want. The main title stays everywhere as the current used layout specifies. You can also make global changes on the master slide (the first big slide). Your question is very wide, it almost requires a 30minute video answer :)

[@geneemason2534]

Hi I appreciate you sharing your content. Do you do coaching and consultation sessions?

[@andrewpach]

Hello Genee! Since I'm running a company I don't have time for individual lectures since I prefer to upgrade and release new material for my business, so currently I don't do coaching! Thanks for asking

[@geneemason2534]

Thanks for your response. I will continue to watch your videos and utilise your teachings on udemy.

[@DinselAmores]

Thank you so much! This vid taught me so much ❤

[@andrewpach]

You're so welcome!

[@elnurhajiyev2477]

Fire bolts, bo-boo, bo-boo!!

[@andrewpach]

^^

[@drakemitri3419]

Question: Can you re-alter the Master title location? Once I re-organise my title text location on the slide and save it, "preserve it" if you press rest on the standard slide deck view, it resets to the original format I designed.

[@andrewpach]

Whatever you change on the standard slide deck will overwrite the original master slide, but if you change that again on the master slide it will re-adjust. This is tricky because the TITLE layout is the very first layout after the Master Slide. If you want ONE slide or that title to be different and stay in place regardless of the changes you make on the master slide just go into the normal PowerPoiint view, go to INSERT > TEXT BOX > and insert a text box and use that as title. This newly created text box won't be affected by any changes you make on the master slide.

[@MrBish435]

@@andrewpach You are amazing! Thank you so much! That works!

[@doomster2914]

Best part: 6:31

[@andrewpach]

Haha I can only agree :P

[@samarthagarwal6716]

When I use slidemaster then insert placeholder is not active. I cannot click on it

[@andrewpach]

You must return back to powerpoint, right click , select that layout, and the placeholder should be active then.

[@lisadupond6168]

Just discovered your course, super helpful and clear! I am running into a problem with the master slide and I can't seem to find a solution. I have created a custom shape in the master slide. Behind this custom shape there is a picture placeholder. When using this lay-out in a regular presentation, the custom shape sticks to the background and the image is on top of the custom shape. Do you have any tips on how I can fix this? Thank you!

[@andrewpach]

There is no "fix" for that, since shapes are "fixed" into background once added on master slides. You'd have to simply add that shape on the slide, within PowerPoint natively, not within the slide master area :)

[@lisadupond6168]

@@andrewpach Thank you for your fast reply! Such a shame it's not possible because the template I am making will be distributed within an entire team. Will create a different lay-out then ;-)

[@andrewpach]

There should be a "click off" making it possible to either set shapes on the background or in front of elements, at least within the slide master so we would get a choice as designers...but you know Microsoft programmers did it like this years ago and it never changed.

[@epikdesign373]

Very helpful - THANKS! Is there a way to do the same but to an OBJECT which you want to be on TOP of all graphics/backgrounds? Lets say i want LOGO to appear all slides in the same place on top of anything i do and place on that slide?

[@andrewpach]

What a good idea! I think natively powerpoint doesn't allow to make something stick to the very top of all layers! How stupid, ur right this should be a feature right away. I don't know there is a solution right now other than just having the logo on the side of your slide, once you finish simply click on the logo and press "bring to front" and drag it over to the slide, it will be on top of anything

[@abhishekkaushik4827]

Hi, Thank you for your useful Tutorial, I was trying it my own in PPT 2013, I was able to intersect the placeholder and shape but when I was trying to drag images then it did not go into the placeholders automatically, could you please confirm what could be the issue here?

[@abhishekkaushik4827]

No worries, I have got it now, I was trying to add images in the Master Layout not the slides, but it is working now.

[@andrewpach]

Hah awesome to hear that :) True, you have to insert them once you are back in the presentation and apply that layout

[@allabout1135]

Hi Thanks for useful trick. Do You kow how to save custom slides as default and re open them in new / blank presentation?

[@andrewpach]

Well you can save "templates" so the custom layouts you made will be saved, but you can easily also copy over slides from one presentation to another by simply CTRL+C and CTRL+V - it's also a quick way

[@eg9418]

Is it possible to add an editable text box in master slide view? Such a feature would let me insert a generic left-docked advancement panel (not sure how to call this, but the thing that lets the audience know which element of the presentation you are currently presenting)

[@andrewpach]

yes, you cna add a text placeholder that will be editable within the slide master. Just a regular Text placeholder would do. You can turn it 90 degrees if you want it somehow be on the side.

[@jeanpaulfifon]

Hi, I'm trying from a Mac version to create PPT templates that are having transparency blocks. In my master slides, I would like to have placeholders images first, then a transparent block and finally text in the foreground. How is it possible to make it user friendly for clients that are not skilled with PPT?

[@andrewpach]

Not exactly possible, or at least you won't be able to click on the picture and possible overlay block once you are on the slide. The way you could do it just add the picture and transparent shape on the slide master but I think the text box could be added on the slide itself....or also on the slide master. The text block will be however the only clickable element, the picture/block will be hard embedded into the slide and NOT changeable anymore unless you go again inside the slide master.

[@kingcobra071]

The pictures get smaller once they are shown in normal view but in SlideMaster view it was half page picture holder. Any suggestions

[@andrewpach]

Myabe play around with the cropping itself once you place them in the placeholder. I'm not exactly sure if you explain a bug or it's a powerpoint thingy

[@ElliotKwan]

Great video Andrew! I do have one question, I have an image placeholder that is used as a background on the master slide. On top of this I have shapes that cover top and bottom of the image. My issue is that when I make a new slide using the master slide, the placeholder image always pops up in font and I can't seem to "send to back" behind the shapes. I don't know what I need to do to make the shapes I have movable or stay ontop of the main image.

[@andrewpach]

Hello Elliot. Thank you. I'm not sure if you talk about an image placeholder or an actual image placed into the slide master. Whatever will be put in the slide master will be in the background of the slide (for example a shape or a picture) and you can easily place items over it. I can hardly believe you cannot send an image to back if you can click on it, that is practically impossible, I would need a screenshot or see the presentation with the Selection Pane opened. The selection pane allows you to decide what comes first and what comes later, so this is one way of adjusting what is visible right away and what hidden behind other objects.

[@OzDeaDMeaT]

Are the slide masters saved in the file or on the computer? If they are on the computer, where are they stored?

[@andrewpach]

In the file! Slide masters will be only saved in the computer if you save your current design as a "template" under the DESIGN tab, then it will be on your computer.

[@Promble]

hi, just wanna ask is there a way for Ppt 2010 to make custom shapes for the picture ??

[@andrewpach]

I think yes, PPT 2010 had the Edit Points feature. You can also bring in the Merge / Combine shapes option if you go to your PPT Options > Customize Ribbons > and there you have to find from the "All Commands" list find "Combine Shapes" and add it to your PPT 2010 ribbon. Once you have that you possibly should be able to do what you see in the tutorial. If not then it may be that PPT 2010 can't do it. That's the best solution I can give you!

[@pickadonproductions3996]

Has your Udemy course been updated for PowerPoint 2021?

[@andrewpach]

Hello Pickadon, both my masterclasses are up to date, new lectures are added and the older ones are still relevant since PPT 2016 / 2019 has almost the same functionality apart from a few features (like zoom, morph etc.). There is no PPT2021, there is only PPT2019 currently which is the newest which has minor updates for 2021. The coruses are going strong and I always keep them fresh with some new lectures:) On a side note - you have a 30-day money back guarantee and you can read through the curriculum to see if they are a fit for you!

[@sadiqueahamad]

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[@andrewpach]

Sure

[@leagomosarwa2273]

Hi Andrew. I managed to do the slide master presentation, but unfortunately now when I try to open the slide on a projector, it only opens one slide without any information? What can I do so that all the slides are present on the slide show? 🤔

[@andrewpach]

I don't understand what you mean, slide master vs showing it on a projector. I think you simply have to exit the slide master view and all your slides are normally inside of powerpoint, once you create them they will be 100% visible!

[@gerardocabanero9718]

How come the footer and slide number don't show when you apply a layout to a slide?

[@andrewpach]

Maybe that particular layout has the footer and slide number turned off. Go to view>slide master and check in the layout you had selected! :)

[@lucasdeaver9192]

whats the purpose of the large master vs the smaller ones?

[@andrewpach]

The large master is a parent to all other ones. Whatever you apply do the main master slide will be visible on all other layouts. However, when you apply something to a layout it will be only visible on that one layout.

[@Jorcap]

this is such an old olllddddd program to build presentations. It's so not user friendly. I'm glad your tutorial helped me out. Some clients need powerpoint but man, I don't recommend it.

[@andrewpach]

Yeah I know but we are in this love/hate relationship with PPT for ages. I would love to join their UI/UX team to improve that stuff haha but they are pretty hermetic about it ;D