Adjusting Slide Appearance in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

  • 3/15/2013
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Applying a layout

A slide layout in PowerPoint is like a blueprint for a house; it establishes the various types of “rooms” that appear on your slide. Just as certain types of rooms contain certain types of furniture, slides can contain different types of objects. A Title And Content slide holds a title and bullet list, whereas a Picture With Caption slide holds an image and some text that describes it. The placeholders in a layout automatically format the content you add, applying settings specific to each type of placeholder.

Apply a different layout to a slide

  1. Display the slide whose layout you want to change and then, on the ribbon, click the Home tab.

  2. In the Slides group, click Layout to open the Layout gallery.

  3. Click a layout to apply it.

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TRY THIS

You can determine a slide’s layout when you first create it. Click the Home tab and then, in the Slides group, click the down-arrow on the New Slide button. Click the layout you prefer, and the slide is created with that layout applied.

TIP

In PowerPoint 2013, layouts with content now include both bulleted text and graphic/multimedia content tools within each content placeholder. You must pick one type of content to add to each placeholder. When you use the tool to add one type of content to a placeholder, the other tools disappear.

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