Changing a Slide's Layout in PowerPoint

PowerPoint has an the AutoLayout feature. This feature helps you to design slides around the information you need to present. When you create a new slide, you can select from approximately 24 AutoLayouts (depending on the version of PowerPoint). Each offers a different layout, depending on what you want to do. For example, there's a layout that has placeholders for a title, text, and a chart. The title and text placeholders follow the formatting of the slide master for your presentation. You can move, resize, or reformat the placeholders so they vary from the slide master.

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Change a slide layout

1. In Slide or Slide Sorter view, select the slide you need to change the layout.
2. From the Format menu, choose SLIDE LAYOUT.
   
   Note: The Task Pane appears on the right-hand side of your screen.
   
   
3. Use the scroll bar to view all layouts, click the one you want, and then click APPLY
4. Rearrange any overlapping or hidden objects to fit the new layout.