The slide master can be thought of as a layout that contains "how you want the presentation to look". Often the slide master contains the layout, choice of fonts, color, background image and logo. It can also be thought of as the template settings.
The Slide Master is the slide that holds the formatting for the title, the text, and any background items that appear on the slides. Any text styles or graphics that appear on the Slide Master will appear on all of the slides in a presentation.
An overall guide created by PowerPoint for each new presentation that contains formatting features and standard layout characteristics for all slides (except title slides).
is an element of the design template that stores information about the template, including font styles, placeholder sizes and positions, background design, and color schemes.
A PowerPoint template that stores information about the cur-rent design template such as font style, placeholder sizes and positions, background design, and color schemes; see also Title Master.
In Microsoft PowerPoint, the slide master is the slide containing placeholders for titles, main text, and background items that appear on all slides in a presentation. When you save a PhotoDraw picture as a PowerPoint background (choose the Send as Microsoft PowerPoint Background command on the Save Send menu), the picture becomes part of the slide master background.
A template used to make uniform changes to slide characteristics such as background color, repeated graphics, or text, font, and text color.