3. Creating a Slide from a Layout
A slide layout is a
layout guide that tells PowerPoint what placeholder boxes to use on a
particular slide and where to position them. Although slide layouts can
contain placeholders for text, they also contain graphics, charts,
tables, and other useful elements. After you create a new slide with
placeholders, you can click a placeholder to open whatever controls you
need to insert that type of object.
NOTE
See the section, "Using Content Placeholders" for more information on inserting objects.
When you create new slides using the outline method
described in the preceding section, the new slides use the Title and
Content layout, which consists of a slide title and a single, large
placeholder box for content. If you want to use another layout, such as
a slide with two adjacent but separate frames of content, you must
either switch the slide to a different layout after its creation (using
the Layout menu on the Home tab), or you must specify a different
layout when you initially create the slide.
To specify a certain layout as you are creating a slide, follow these steps:
In Normal or Slide Sorter view, select or display the slide that the new one should follow.
You
can select a slide by clicking its thumbnail image in Slide Sorter view
or on the Slides pane in Normal view. You can also move the insertion
point to the slide's text in the Outline pane.
On the Home tab, do one of the following:
To add a new slide using the default Title and Content layout, click the top (graphical) portion of the New Slide button.
To
add a new slide using another layout, click the bottom (text) portion
of the New Slide button and then select the desired layout from the
menu, as shown in Figure 2.
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The layouts that appear on the menu come from the
slide master. To customize these layouts, click Slide Master on the
View tab.
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4. Copying Slides
Another way to create a new slide is to copy an
existing one in the same presentation. This is especially useful when
you are using multiple slides to create a progression because one slide
is typically identical to the next slide in a sequence, except for a
small change.
There are several ways to copy one or more slides. One way is to use the Windows Clipboard, as in the following steps:
Select the slide or slides that you want to copy.
NOTE
If you select from the Outline pane, make sure
that you click the icon to the left of the slide's title so that the
entire slide is selected; if you select only part of the text on the
slide, then only the selected part is copied.
Press Ctrl+C. You can also click the Copy button on the Home tab, or right-click the selection and click Copy.
Select
the slide that the pasted slide or slides should follow. Alternately,
in the Outline pane, click to place the insertion point where you want
the insertion.
Press Ctrl+V. You can also click the Paste button on the Home tab, or right-click the destination and click Paste.
PowerPoint also has a Duplicate Slides command that
does the same thing as a copy-and-paste command. Although it may be a
little faster, it gives you less control as to where the pasted copies
will appear:
Select the slide or slides to be duplicated.
On the Home tab, click the bottom part of the New Slide button to open its menu.
Click
Duplicate Selected Slides. As an alternative, you can right-click a
slide (or a group of selected slides) in the Slides pane and choose
Duplicate Slide.
PowerPoint
pastes the slides immediately after the last slide in the selection.
For example, if you selected slides 1, 3, and 6, then the copies are
placed after slide 6.
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To make duplication even faster, you can
place the Duplicate Selected Slides command on the Quick Access
toolbar. To do that, right-click the command on the menu and choose Add
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