PowerPoint's Best Kept Secret

Have you ever found yourself fiddling with the Font Size in your slide Text Boxes?  Often right at pre-presentation crunch time?  Well, there's a reason for this experience, and it's not all bad, just some extra work and sometimes irritation when you last need it.

Slideshow software can seem like your using a tool that's very similar to a word processing package but there's a fundamental difference.  Although a new Word Document is based on an underlying Template (called normal.dot), when it comes to a slideshow file, there's more than just starting out with a copy of a Template.

In PowerPoint, each Slide Layout is also based on an underlying Master Template.  It's here where you can save the most valuable time and not have to bother with checking all of your slides, at the last moment, to fuss with making Text Sizes consistent from Slide to Slide.  And, once you've "mastered" master templates, you'll be flying through your presentation-making experience like the pro you are!    ​