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Changing the slide layout

Changing the slide layout

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Changing the slide layout

- Our presentation is really starting to take some shape. We finally have some pictures, we've changed some layouts, and I've added some more slides. I haven't done anything fancy with them yet, I've just added some text. You may decide, after reviewing these slides, that you don't like the way some of them are laid out. You don't have to delete and recreate the content, you can change the layout right here in place. Here's my Arrival Info slide, there's some basic bullet points here, but we can change this layout. With the slide selected, on the Home ribbon tab click Layout. Here's all the available layouts for our theme; now we can change it. For example: I can change to a two content layout. It leaves this text in place, however, it added a new placeholder so that I could easily add something like a chart, a table, or an image. I can even change to something a bit more crazy, such as a picture with a caption. It still keeps the text there, even though it's a little hard to read. I…

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