

The title font size is set as 44 by default. It has Calibri for both the title and body. The default master slide in PowerPoint is naturally blank. It even has a thin line at the bottom to separate the footer from the body.

The master slide has a fancy banner to distinguish the title from the rest of the body. Let us say, your company’s slide master has title font as ‘Franklin Gothic Medium Condensed’ with size 40 and Calibri for the body of the slide. Your master slide is expected to look in a certain way to follow the company design protocol. Many times the design theme for your business presentations are dictated by your company. Why change default Master slide in PowerPoint template? Stop wasting time recreating your preferred template every time you open a presentation. Learn to customize the default slide in PowerPoint. If you want to save this as a template to reuse again, click File > Save as Template, type a file name, and click Save.Home > All Tutorials > PowerPoint Tips > Master Slide in PowerPoint To add text that will appear as a footer at the bottom of all of the pages in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, click Slide Size > Page Setup > Header/Footer.Īfter you make your changes, on the Slide Master tab, click Close Master. Under Orientation, click the orientation you want. To set the page orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, click Slide Size > Page Setup. To apply a design or theme-based colors, fonts, effects and backgrounds, see Create your own theme in PowerPoint. To remove any of the built-in slide layouts that accompany the default slide master, in the slide thumbnail pane, click each slide layout that you want to delete, and then on the Slide Master tab, click Delete.

To create one or more custom layouts or to modify existing layouts, see Apply or change a slide layout. Note: In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master is the larger slide image, and the associated layouts are positioned beneath the slide master.
