If you do not find a standard layout (layout: The arrangement of elements, such as title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, AutoShapes, and movies, on a slide.) that meets your needs, you can create a custom layout that perfectly suits your slide content.
To create a new layout, you must first add a layout to a slide master in Slide Master view. After you add a layout, you can begin to structure it by adding text-specific and object-specific placeholders (placeholders: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are part of most slide layouts. These boxes hold title and body text or objects such as charts, tables, and pictures.).
Note For step-by-step procedures on how to create custom layouts by adding, changing, or deleting placeholders and working in Slide Master view.
- On the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, click Slide Master.
- In the pane that contains the slide masters and layouts, click a location below the slide master where you want the new layout to appear.
- On the Slide Master tab, in the Edit Master group, click Insert Layout.
- To modify the layout that you just added, do one or more of the following:
- To remove an unwanted, default placeholder, click the border of the placeholder, and then press DELETE.
- To add a placeholder, do the following:
- On the Slide Master tab, in the Master Layout group, click Insert Placeholder, and then select a placeholder type from the list.
- Click a location on the layout, and then drag to draw the placeholder. Tip To resize a placeholder, drag one of its corner borders.
- Click the Microsoft Office Button
 , and then click Save As. - In the File name box, type a file name, or do nothing to accept the suggested file name.
- In the Save as type list, click PowerPoint Template, and then click Save.
Note The layout that you added and customized now appears in the list of standard, built-in layouts in Normal view, located on the Home tab, in the Slides group
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