Note: By default, placeholder text boxes that you add to a master slide have two control handles and the font size automatically changes to fit inside the text box.

When you want to add a slide to your presentation that has particular elementssuch as a title and subtitle, a bulleted list, or an imageyou select the slide layout that most resembles the layout you want, then you replace the placeholder elements and make other changes as necessary.

Only the slide in your presentation is changed; the master slide remains in its original state.

If you add new images, text, and other objects to a master, these objects become part of the slide background and arent editable in your presentation.

If you want text, shapes, or images on a master slide to be editable in your presentation, you must add them as placeholders to the master slide.

You can make the same kinds of changes to a master slide that you make to a regular slidefor example, modify the appearance of text, change the slide background, and change the size of the images.

The changes appear on every slide in the presentation thats based on that master.

Add a new master slide Click in the toolbar, then choose Edit Master Slides.

Do any of the following: Click in the toolbar, then click to select a master slide.

In the slide navigator, click to select a slide with a layout similar to the layout you want, then press Return.

Double-click the name of the master slide in the slide navigator and type a new name.

Modify the slide however you like by adding text, images, shapes, placeholders, or other objects.

When youre done editing, click Done at the bottom of the slide canvas, or click in the toolbar, then choose Exit Master Slides.

Add text and media placeholders Click in the toolbar, then choose Edit Master Slides.

Do one of the following: Create a text placeholder: Add a text box or add a shape.

Click to select the object you added, then in the Format sidebar, click the Style tab.

Near the bottom, select Define as Text Placeholder or Define as Media Placeholder.

If you want slides based on this master to allow objects to be layered under master objects, click the background of the slide (so that nothing is selected), then select Allow layering in the Format sidebar.

To learn more about layers, see Layer, group, and lock objects in Keynote on Mac.

The tags tell the content where to go when you apply a different master to a slide.

For example, an image thats in a placeholder with the tag Media is automatically added to a placeholder from the new master that also has the tag Media.

To change a tag, select the placeholder, then click the Style tab in the Format sidebar.

In the text box next to Tag, delete the existing tag, then type your own.

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