Title Slide

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Alan

Hello experts:

(2000)

I'm trying to better understand, on a technical level, the
link between a title slide and the title slide master.

For instance, you can do a presentation without a title
slide at all. This surprised me when I first heard it,
because then what does the Title Slide Master govern? Am
I making any sense?

Now what makes a slide the title slide? Namely, if you
alter the Title Slide Master, how does the program know
which slide(s) to alter? Is it the one which was started
from that "Title slide"-looking layout?

I guess what I'm saying is, suppose you start with a
document which has no Title Slide. Then you want to add
one -- how do you ensure it will be governed by the Title
Slide Master? By choosing that one particular layout?

Would it be possible to have several title slides in a
document?

Thanks in advance.
 
M

Michael Koerner

Whatever changes you make to the Title Master will appear each time you select New slide, and then select 'Title'

You do not have to use the Title slide if you don't want to.
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Hello experts:

(2000)

I'm trying to better understand, on a technical level, the
link between a title slide and the title slide master.

For instance, you can do a presentation without a title
slide at all. This surprised me when I first heard it,
because then what does the Title Slide Master govern? Am
I making any sense?

Now what makes a slide the title slide? Namely, if you
alter the Title Slide Master, how does the program know
which slide(s) to alter? Is it the one which was started
from that "Title slide"-looking layout?

I guess what I'm saying is, suppose you start with a
document which has no Title Slide. Then you want to add
one -- how do you ensure it will be governed by the Title
Slide Master? By choosing that one particular layout?

Would it be possible to have several title slides in a
document?

Thanks in advance.
 
S

Sonia

You have already figured out the answer. The Title Master has an easy job.
It is only called into service if and when you apply the Title Slide layout
to a slide. You don't have to have a Title Slide, yet you can have more
than one if you want. You don't even need a Title Master, but if you don't
have one the Slide Master will govern the format of the Title Slide.
PowerPoint is smart enough to know that if you have a Title Master and you
have a title slide, the Title Master is applied to it.
 
S

Steve Rindsberg

I'm trying to better understand, on a technical level, the
link between a title slide and the title slide master.

For instance, you can do a presentation without a title
slide at all. This surprised me when I first heard it,
because then what does the Title Slide Master govern? Am
I making any sense?

Sure. Look at it this way: if your template doesn't have a title slide
master and you ask for a title slide, PowerPoint gives you its default title
slide, which is based on the existing slide master, but the title area is in
a different place and there's a subtitle instead of a text box. If that's
exactly what you were after, then there's no need to do anything else.

If you want a bit more control, then you add a title master and modify that
so you can have different setups for titles and regular slides. That's
really about all there is to it.
Now what makes a slide the title slide? Namely, if you
alter the Title Slide Master, how does the program know
which slide(s) to alter? Is it the one which was started
from that "Title slide"-looking layout?

Got it in one! Exactly so.
I guess what I'm saying is, suppose you start with a
document which has no Title Slide. Then you want to add
one -- how do you ensure it will be governed by the Title
Slide Master? By choosing that one particular layout?

If there's a title master, then when you add a new slide and choose the
title slide LAYOUT, then you get a slide that's based on the master. If no
title master, you get what PPT feels like giving you instead.

Note that the title master can be used for other purposes instead. You
might want a slide with a different background and no text at all.
Would it be possible to have several title slides in a
document?

As many as you like. And if you use PPT 2002 or later, you can have
multiple masters and title masters so they can look different if you want.
 

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