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January 27, 2025
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InDesign Master Page vs Powerpoint

  • January 27, 2025
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I need help with PowerPoint actually but I can not even google it because I do not know how it is called there.

In InDesign, repetitive elements are in Master Pages. But in PowerPoint, Master Page is something very different. I need to remove repetitive logos so each page will not include them, when I export.

 

 

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nils_1630Author
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February 5, 2025

Thanks for your answers! I was in almost right place several times. I went to "View/Slide Master".

But the thing was I had to scroll up to see the actual Master Page that included required repetitive content.

By default, the "sub-master" pages are visible in PowerPoint 2019. This is the first time in my life that I have to scroll up something I open first time ever. I did not ask in PowerPoint forums because I am very familiar with InDesign and completely not with PowerPoint. Many things are just very very weird for me in PP.

Mike Witherell
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February 5, 2025

Yes, the Slide Master part of PowerPoint is trying to show a parent/child relationship to different sub-layouts. I find the interface challenging.

Mike Witherell
Mike-Witherell
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January 27, 2025

PowerPoint > View menu > Slide Master

Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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January 27, 2025

Thanks, Mike. I assume the OP knew the location but you know what happens when you assume...

 

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Mike Witherell
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January 27, 2025

Hey Dave, yeah, in a world of brief questions and brief descriptions, my take on things (assumptions) is often way off. Maybe the OP will expand on the question?

Mike Witherell
Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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January 27, 2025

PowerPoint has a main Master slide. Layouts are derivative from the Master slide. If the logo is on EVERY layout, it is on the Master slide. If if it is only on SOME layouts, it was inserted just on those layouts. Simply go to the Master slide, if you don't see the logo there, check each layout. (It is possible for some presentations to have multiple master slides, with each one have their own set of layouts. Just keep looking.)

Finally, it is possible that someone inserted the logo on each slide one at a time, bypassing the master and layouts completely.

 

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Willi Adelberger
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January 27, 2025

Create several Masters/Parents. Create a child of such where you remove the logo. Apply this child.

jane-e
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January 27, 2025

 

I need help with PowerPoint actually

By @nils_1630

 

You might ask on the PowerPoint forum in the Microsoft community:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_powerpoint

 

Jane