Hari Prasadh said:
With the above new doubt. Whats a handout master. I though that it might be
a miniaturized print of all (or almost all) slides which tells us where a
particular slide is. Something akin to what we get from Camera print shops
these days (along with 36 prints I also get one "Table of contents" print
which has all the prints in miniature form within a single print). Is
handout master such a table of contents of slides?
No, masters in PowerPoint are similar to templates in Word. The master slide
is where you would put something -- a drawn object or text or a photograph
or a product logo or whatever -- that you want to appear on all slides. It
saves you from having to paste that object on every slide individually.
So in PPT, you start from a slide master base for your slides and then add
more stuff on the individual slides.
Does that make sense?
A handout master works similarly. It's the basis for the handout page. It
shows the blank slide thumbnails which are where the slides will be located
when you print the handout. You cannot reposition or resize those, but you
can add other things to your handout page if you want. Many people like to
type in the name of the presentation or the presenter's name on the
handouts. Others like to add the date and time the handout was printed. Or
maybe the date of the presentation. My clients almost always want the page
number on the handouts. You can add any of these on the handout master.
You get to the masters in PPT by going to View/Master. Then choose the
master you want.
I checked out the handout master in view - master but I just get to see
miniaturized slides (9 slides in one) with NOTHING on those slides. On the
other hand the slides are all filled with tens of objects in each slide. Why
am I getting a blank view in Handout master?
Those are just the placeholders for where your slides will be printed.
(The above problem in my understanding could also be because I dont know
what "Master" is etc. Have been confined to manipulating objects on existing
PPT files. I understand its like asking what is quantum chromodynamics when
one doesnt even know what chromodynamics is?).
Nah, it's not even *close* to that!