لطفا منتظر باشید ...
Editing the Slide Master Layout
Now that you are familiar with the concepts of the Slide and Title Masters, let's start looking at some of the ways you can edit them. We'll start with something obvious: positioning of objects.
Modifying Text Placeholder Positions
The text placeholder positioning determines where the text will appear on each slide. The Title placeholder is usually at the top of each slide, and the Text placeholder is usually below it. However, each design template has its own ideas about exactly where the text placeholders should be positioned. To see this for yourself, display the Slide Design task pane and switch rapidly between several different slide designs. You can see the text placeholders jump around to different spots.
The Text placeholder usually takes up nearly the entire slide, but if you need to make room for a graphic or other repeated element on each slide, you may want to change its size and/or position. For example, in Figure 3-7 I've made the Text placeholder narrower so that I can place a graphic to its right.
Figure 3-7: Drag the text placeholder boxes on a Slide or Title Master to move or resize them the same way as you would any object on any slide.
To modify a text placeholder, resize it on the Slide Master or Title Master as you would any text box. Click the outside of its frame to select it; selection handles appear around the outside. Then, to resize the text placeholder, drag one of its selection handles. Or, to move the text placeholder, position the mouse pointer over the border-but not on a selection handle-and drag.
Deleting and Restoring Placeholders on Masters
To delete a placeholder from a master, click its border and then press Delete. If there are any slides in the presentation that rely on the deleted placeholder to hold some of their existing content, that content will remain but will be converted to an "orphaned" object. The orphaned object will retain the same text, but its formatting will probably change.
If you customize a master by deleting one or more of the placeholders on it, you can get those placeholders back at any time. To do so, click the Master Layout button on the Slide Master View toolbar, or choose Format⇨Master Layout. This opens a dialog box containing check boxes for all the placeholders. Any that have been deleted have open check boxes; mark those check boxes to replace those deleted items (see Figure 3-8).
Figure 3-8: Restoring deleted items from the Slide Master.
| Tip | It is not necessary to delete the Date Area, Footer Area, or Number Area placeholders from the Slide Master layout if you don't want to use them; you can leave the placeholders intact but turn off their display in the Header and Footer dialog box. See Changing Header and Footer Elements later in this chapter to learn how. |
Here's an experiment that will show you the effect of deleting and restoring a text placeholder:
Start a new presentation using the AutoContent Wizard for a Training presentation.
Display Slide Master view, and delete the main text placeholder in the center.
Close Slide Master view and page through the slides. Notice that each text box now has a white background and appears to be totally blank with some yellow bullet circles. That's because the text is set to appear white.
Select one of the orphaned text boxes on one of the slides and apply a black background fill to it. The text on the slide comes into view.
Switch back to the Slide Master view.
Choose Format⇨Master Layout. Mark the Text checkbox and click OK. Then close Slide Master view.
Switch to Slide Sorter view and examine the slides. All the slides have changed back to the default formatting for their text except the one you manually modified in step 4; it retains its black background.
Close the presentation without saving your changes.
Changing Header and Footer Elements
The Date Area, Footer Area, and Number Area on the Slide and Title Masters enable you to control where those elements will appear on each slide. For example, you could move any of those elements to the top of the slide, swap their places, or make any other positioning changes.
You can also format those placeholder boxes to change the fonts used for each of those elements. The settings governing each of those three placeholders varies depending on the design template in use. See Changing Text Formatting later in this chapter for information on specifying a font for a placeholder box.
All three areas are controlled from the Header and Footer dialog box. Choose View⇨Header and Footer (either in Slide Master view or outside of it; it doesn't matter). Then on the Slide tab, change the settings of each of the three placeholder types (see Figure 3-9).
Figure 3-9: Choose the placeholders to display.
Here are the specifics on each of the three elements.
DATE AND TIME
Date and Time is enabled by default. Depending on the design template, it may be set either to Update Automatically or Fixed:
Update Automatically pulls the current date from the computer's clock and formats it in whatever format you choose from the drop-down list. You can also select a Language and a Calendar Type setting (although unless you are presenting in some other country than the one for which your version of PowerPoint was written, this is probably not an issue).
Fixed prints whatever you enter in the Fixed text box in the Date area. By default, the Fixed text box is empty, so it appears as if the Date and Time feature had been turned off. It's actually on, but blank.
| Tip | When you put an automatically updated date/time code on the slide master, it updates at the beginning of the presentation but does not keep updating in real time throughout the slide show. If you want a real-time clock that shows the current time on each slide during the show, try the Auto-DateTime add-in,found at http://officeone.mvps.org/autodatetime/autodatetimel. |
SLIDE NUMBER
This option shows the slide number on each slide, wherever the Number Area box is positioned.
By default, slide numbering starts with 1. You can start with some other number if you like; choose File⇨Page Setup and change the value in the Number Slides From box.
You can format the font size and other attributes used for the number by formatting the placeholder in the Number Area box, but you cannot change to a different style of numbering (such as Roman or letters). The automatic slide numbers are strictly Arabic-style in PowerPoint.
| Tip | The slide number can be inserted on an individual slide, either instead of or in addition to the numbering on the Slide Master. To do so, display that slide, position the insertion point, and then choose Insert⇨Slide Number. This places a code for the slide number, so that if the slide's number changes, the reference will change too. |
| Tip | Check out www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00548 fora handy add-in that enables you to number slides, including the total number of slides-for example, in a 10-slide presentation, page 2 would be numbered "2 of 10." |
FOOTER
The footer is enabled by default in most design templates, but is blank. Enter the desired text in the Footer box in the Header and Footer dialog box. The Footer checkbox is handy because it enables you to suppress the footer (by clearing the checkbox) without deleting the text in the Footer text box, so you can retain your footer text for later use.
DON'T SHOW ON TITLE SLIDE
This checkbox suppresses the date/time, page number, and footer on the title slide. Many people like to hide those elements on the title slide for a cleaner look and to avoid repeated information (for example, if the current date appears in the subtitle box on the title slide).
