Power Point Question - Slide Masters and Cascading 'em

Feb 29, 2012

Hello,

I am playing with an old PowerPoint presentation. I have a new theme I am using via a new master slide. I am having to click on each slide and change the 'layout' with is becoming a bit of a drag.

Somehow at some point in time I remember being able to just pick a theme and have it cascade through the entire presention with one click but now I can't seem to figure this out.

Really, I would like to cascase the new master slide from about slide 11 on as slides 1-10 have different themes.

Any direction on what I need to do?

Thanks for any help!

Cheers,

Dave

3 Replies

Natalia Mueller

12 years ago02/29/12 at 7:33 am (UTC)

Hi Dave,

Try this.

1. Click VIEW and select SLIDE MASTER

2. Add a slide and format it with whatever elements you want to show up on the rest of your slides

3. Close the slide master

4. Select side 11 (if there are more slides following, CTRL + click to select more slides)

5. With all desired slides selected (highlighted), hover your mouse over the selected slide thumbnails and right click

6. Select LAYOUT

7. Choose the slide you formatted

All the slides you selected should change to the new format

Since that will be come the most recent slide layout you used, every slide you add after that will have that new layout until you change it to something else.

Please let me know if that didn't make sense and I'll get you a visual example