
Description
What is a slide master?
A slide master is a slide that is used as the starting point for other slides. It is similar to a page style in Writer: it controls the basic formatting of all slides based on it. A slide show can have more than one slide master.
A slide master has a defined set of characteristics, including the background colour, graphic, or gradient; objects (such as logos, decorative lines, and other graphics) in the background; headers and footers; placement and size of text frames; and the formatting of text.
All of the characteristics of slide masters are controlled by styles. The styles of any new slide you create are inherited from the slide master from which it was created. In other words, the styles of the slide master are available and applied to all slides created from that slide master. Changing a style in a slide master results in changes to all the slides based on that slide master; however, it is possible to modify each slide without affecting the slide master.
Slide masters have two styles associated with them: presentation and graphic styles. The pre-packaged presentation styles can be modified, but new ones cannot be created. However, not only can the pre-packaged graphic styles be modified, but new graphic styles can also be created.