so the theme you've chosen for your
presentation looks pretty good
but you want to make a few changes you
could edit
each slide individually but a better
solution is to edit the master slides
learning how to work with master slides
can be a little challenging
but the reward is well worth it
to get started click slide then
edit master the new editor will open
over top of your presentation
here instead of editing individual
slides
you are editing slide layouts along the
left side
you'll see all of the layouts in your
theme and
if you look closely you'll see a yellow
outline around the currently selected
layout
if you were to make changes to this
layout those changes would be applied to
each slide in your presentation
that uses this layout if you want to
make changes that affect
the whole presentation select the master
slide
at the top editing a master slide is
similar to editing a normal slide in
your presentation
you can add and remove elements change
text formatting
and more for example you can click the
title text to select it
go to the toolbar and make it italic
if you look closely you'll see that the
titles in all of the slide layouts
are now italic as well if you also want
to change the color of the text
click text color you have two options at
this point
you could simply choose a new color for
the text or you could choose to edit the
theme colors
the advantage of editing the theme
colors is that you can change the color
everywhere to used in the presentation
not just in the title let me show you
what i mean
click the pencil icon to open the theme
colors pane
then click the drop down there are
several theme colors to choose from
but we want text and background 1.
then choose a new color
when you look at the slide layouts
you'll see that not only has the title
color changed
but the background color on several
other layouts has changed as well
that's the power of using theme colors
you can update your entire presentation
with just a few clicks let's go back to
our presentation
click the x in the top right to close
the theme colors pane
and then again to close the master
slides editor
now we can see that the new color and
title formatting
has been applied to the presentation
this is looking pretty good
but i do want to make a few more changes
i want the blue box on the title slide
to be larger but there's a problem
i can't select it that's because the
blue box is part of the slide's
layout not of the slide itself
to edit the layout once again go to
slide
edit master now you can select and edit
all of the elements i'll click and drag
the box's sizing handle to make it
larger
and i'll hold the ctrl key while
dragging to make it resize from the
center
that helps keep everything lined up then
i'll select the white outline
and size it up as well there
i like that better when i close out of
the editor
i can see that my title slide has
updated
as you can probably tell learning how to
work with master slides
is a little tricky but it's also super
useful
another benefit is that it's easy to
import your customizations into a new
presentation
as the theme here's how that works
open the presentation into which you
want to import your customized theme
then click theme in the toolbar the
themes pane will open
and at the bottom there is an option to
import
theme a new window opens and you will
see
all of your google slides presentations
choose the right presentation then click
select
next select the theme and click
import theme congratulations
you have just imported your own custom
theme
into a new presentation
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