Image placeholders, slide layouts and slide masters are one of those features that will give you superpowers once you know how to use them. In this introductory lesson we will learn how to insert an image placeholder into a new slide layout.
Image placeholders are just empty placeholders in a slide. When you click on them, you can insert a picture into them.
The single most important lesson to take out of this is:
You do not add image placeholders to your slide.
You add image placeholders to your slide layout.
That’s a very important distinction to make.
Let’s see how we can do that.
1) We switch to Slide Master View.
The slide master view allows us to see all the slide layouts in our presentation.
2) Insert a new slide layout
3) Insert an image placeholder into the slide layout
Take note we are still in the slide master view after this. We are designing our slide layouts here. Not our normal slides.
We can now make use of the new slide layout we have created
The most important distinction we need to understand is:
Image placeholders get created in slide layouts. We can add images into the placeholders when we switch back to the normal slide view.
We have only scratched the surface of what we can do with image placeholders. Next lesson is coming soon …
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