Slide layouts in PowerPoint contain placeholders for text, images, charts and other objects. Each theme includes a slide master and set of layouts. In Normal view, you can select a layout to suit your slide content from the Home tab. In Slide Master view, you can customize existing layouts or create new layouts.

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3. What is SLIDE LAYOUT ?
Each slide layout contains
placeholders for text,
videos, pictures, charts,
shapes, clip art, a
background, and more, and
they also contain the
formatting, such as theme
colors, fonts, and effects,
for those objects.

4. Every theme (palette of
colors, fonts, and special
effects) you use in your
presentation includes one
slide master and a set of
related layouts. If you use
more than one theme in
your presentation, you’ll
have more than one slide
master and multiple sets of
layouts.

5. You change the slide
layouts that are built
in to PowerPoint in
Slide Master View. The
picture below shows
the slide master and
two of the ten layouts
for the Basis theme in
Slide Master View.

6. Slide Master with layouts in Slide Master view

7. And then when you
are laying out the
content in your
slides, you can pick
the slide layouts
that best suit your
content, as shown
here in Normal
View.

8. SLIDE LAYOUTS

9. The following
diagram shows
the various ‘parts’
of a layout that
you can include on
a PowerPoint
slide.

10. Parts of a layout

11. Where can I find slide layouts?
To pick a different layout
for a slide:
1.In Normal view, on the
Home tab, click Layout.
2.Pick a layout that best
suits the content in your
slide.

12. Slide Layouts on the Home tab

13. To customize or make changes
to the placeholders and other
objects that make up a layout:
1.On the View tab, click Slide
Master.
2.The slide layouts appear as
thumbnails in the left pane
below the slide master, as
shown below.

14. Slide Master with layouts in Slide Master view

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One of the most powerful
features of Slide Master view
is the option to create new
slide layouts. This is an easy
way to add interesting and
unique slide layouts to an
existing theme. You could even
use this feature to design an
entirely new theme, as in the
example below.

16. Creating New Slide Layout