One of the most important items that many people do not know about in PowerPoint is the ability to alter or add elements to the entire presentation at the same time. You can use a SLIDE MASTER to do this. In PowerPoint, you can access the Slide Master under the View|Master|Slide Master menu.

You can make any font, size, format, bullet, or graphic changes you wish. The changes will then be reflected in all slides of the presentation. <Click here> to see a video demonstration of this, as we remove part of the mulit-color graphic at the left side of the slide. (190K)

It should be noted that if you make changes to an individual slide, it will overwrite any changes that you make to the Slide Master.

If you wish to put slide numbers or other text as a footer in your presentation, you can do it in the Slide Master. The View|Header and Footer menu will assist you with this.