If your presentations have identical slides, then it will be difficult for you to convey your message or it should be partially understood by the receiver. “Half knowledge is dangerous for health” as we all know. And if you want your audience or receiver to keep your essential point of the presentation in their mind and in addition to this some of its content then you have to see below article which will definitely help you in achieving your goal. By making unique slides you can achieve your goal
Layout slides for essential point
If you want to make a layout with essential point than put images on the right hand side of the slide but in vertical format and the TITLE of the slide in left side of the slide.
First and Last Layout slides
Always keep in mind that your first and last slide should contain clear and easy content and addition to this add some images to keep audience attracted to your presentation.
Layout slides for content
Lastly you must think about the TITLE and the content for all the slides of the presentation. The layouts which exist in a PowerPoint presentation are easy to make it and they mostly related to your content presentation.
You can make your own layout if you think there is no better layout in option of page layout which can match with your want. So to create a new layout follows these steps. First of all click on the option which you will see on the top of the PowerPoint presentation named as VIEW TAB, after then click on the tool of MASTER VIEW GROUP where list of options will be displayed from that click on the button of SLIDE MASTER which it will appear
STEP 1
You will find a tool which named as an EDIT MASTER GROUP by clicking on a SLIDE MASTER Button. Click on that tool and select the option of inserting LAYOUT. After selecting it you will see the new layout on the left hand side of the pane.
STEP 2
In next step click one more time on the bottom of SLIDE MASTER where you will get the option of the MASTER LAYOUT GROUP. By clicking on that you will get the option of inserting PLACEHOLDER TAB, open it and you will see 8 different types of placeholder from that select any one.
STEP 3
Click on the slide in which you want to place the PLACEHOLDER and its size.
STEP 4
As per your requirement attach placeholders
STEP 5
After finishing the above process click on the layout which you have created in step number 1 and now click on the button of SLIDE MASTER. In that tab named as EDIT MASTER GROUP will appear in which RENAME option will appear click on that option. After clicking on it put your name and again click on RENAME option
STEP 6
Now your presentation will include new layout which you have created in the above step and now you can select any existing layout of your choice for your presentation in any slide.
STEP 7
If you think the layout which you have created by following above process can be useful in future then save it as a THEME or TEMPLATE.
This guest post is contributed by Kuldeep Khatri who recommends Office Timeline – an efficient Free timeline maker plug-in for PowerPoint that enables users to create Gantt Charts easily & quickly.