You can change a placeholder by resizing it, repositioning it, or changing the font, size, case, color, or spacing of text within it. You can change placeholders that appear on a single slide or on multiple slides in your presentation.

All changes to a slide master affect all slides that follow that master, while changes to slide layouts affect all slides that follow that layout. For example, if you want to change the color of the font on all title slides in a presentation, in Slide Master view, click the title style layout, and then change the text formatting.

Change a placeholder that appears on a single slide

Change a placeholder that appears on multiple slides

  1. On the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, click Handout Master.
  2. Click the placeholder that you want to change, and then do any of the following:
    • To resize it, point to one of its sizing handles, and when the pointer becomes a two-headed arrow, drag the handle.
    • To reposition it, point to one of its borders, and when the pointer becomes a four-headed arrow, drag the placeholder to a new position.
    • To change the font, size, case, color, or spacing for text within it, select the text to display a floating Font toolbar. On the Font toolbar, click the options that you want.


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