Ways to customize slide layouts in PowerPoint 2007

ways to customize slide layouts in PowerPoint 2007

For example, the company needs to report on the performance of each sales department at the end of the year, and we want to be able to display the sales for each product in a slide show, a brief description at the bottom of the chart, and a small area to the right of the chart for a brief analysis of the sales data. At this point, you cannot find the fit in the built-in slide layout, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 The built-in layout does not meet the design needs

We can easily build a slide layout that matches your company's presentation with the following steps:

(1) Open the View tab and click the Slide Master button in the Presentation View Options group to open the Slide board tab. As shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 Opening the slide master

(2) on the Open Slide Master tab, click the Insert Layout button in the Edit Master option group. As shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 Insert Layout

(3) Open the Insert Placeholder Drop-down list in the Master Layout option group, select the placeholders you want to insert into your custom layout, and make adjustments. As shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4 Adding and adjusting placeholders

(4) Click the Close Master View button in the Close option group to switch to the Start tab.

(5) Open the Layout drop-down list in the Slides option group to see a custom slide layout. As shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5 Custom slide layouts