Storyline Slide Masters function the same way as they do in PowerPoint and they can save a lot of time by eliminating unnecessary duplication of effort. The idea of a Slide Master is that you can design and build content and activities you know will be used for multiple slides and you do this just once in the Slide Master. You then apply that master layout to one or more slides in the story. When a change is needed, instead of editing multiple slides, all you need to do is edit once in the master slide and let Storyline apply this to all slides that are using that master layout.

There can be one or more Slide Masters containing a number of slide layouts for a single course. Each layout can be edited using all the regular formatting commands.

Slide Masters can be accessed by clicking on the View tab and selecting Slide Master:

Slide Masters can consist of placeholder content. A placeholder can be set up to accept text, pictures, illustrated characters, movies, Flash, or web objects. Placeholders can be formatted and positioned using all the standard formatting functions. When a slide is using a master layout that contains a placeholder, a dotted border will appear prompting you to enter text, insert an image, and so on.

Here's how to access and work with Slide Masters:

Storyline design themes and backgrounds function like they do in PowerPoint. Design themes specify colors and fonts that can be applied to one or more slides and include several built-in themes. You can choose to use the theme as it is or you can alter it to suit your needs by adjusting fonts, colors, and background styles.

Design themes, backgrounds, colors, and fonts can be accessed from the Design tab and can be applied to a single slide, multiple slides, or all slides.