We’ve been getting some questions about how to add your logo to our PowerPoint templates. Each of our templates has a placeholder for a logo or your company name. In most cases this is an image placed in the slide master layout. I thought I would describe how to remove or change the logo placeholder in this post.
Template: Music Sheet PowerPoint Template
For the purpose of this tutorial I will be using PowerPoint 2007.
Step 1
After you have opened up the template in PowerPoint, you will need to locate, under the “View” tab, the “Slide Master” button.
Slide Master View
Step 2
Simply highlight the logo placeholder and maker your changes. You can now delete or change the logo to your own.
The Slide Master is pretty much the brain of the PowerPoint template. All the pre-designed layouts can be found here and edited. Changes you make in the slide master will affect all the pages in your presentation. For example if you select the logo placeholder and delete it from the ppt, it will delete the logo from all the pages in your presentation. If you replace the placeholder with your own text or logo image, consequently, it will place your logo on all the pages in the presentation.
Note: You will probably need to check through all the layouts available in the Slide Master view since we typically include more than one option for the logo placeholder.
The Slide Master is a best friend for building pages fast, I will talk more about using PowerPoint’s Slide Master in future posts.
Tags: PowerPoint Templates, slide master, tutorial
Sorry, but I have a different version which does not have the master option. How do I do it?
Hi Carla, all versions of PowerPoint should have a Master Slide area. Click on the view tab and there will be an area labeled Master Slide, or Slide Master.
So I went through and removed all of the “Your Logo” pics. (I had to do this by checking the “Hide background graphics” check box at the top of the master slide page. Still, this got me thinking. Wasn’t there something in your terms of use that said we couldn’t remove some things due to copyright issues? Might this be one of those things we’re not supposed to be messing with?
Hi Tim, When viewing the the very first slide in the slide master view, you can select and delete the your Logo placeholder. This should prevent you from having to “hide background graphics” which could result in hiding parts of the template you want to see.
There is no problem with you deleting any of the elements in the template.
Art Holden
Great! Works perfectly in 2010 version- Thanks
Tried “Hide Background Graphics” first, but it also changed the layout instead of only removing YOUR LOGO”.
Art,
I am using pp2010 and your “question-direction” template. I was unable to remove the “your logo” placeholder. It appears as if the “your logo” is part of the background. any suggestions? am i doing anything wrong? thx!
Hi Bala, The “your logo” place holder in that template is part of the Slide Master. Click on the view tab, choose Slide Master, delete the logo position in the first two slides, return to Normal View under the view tab.
We have tried to move all the logo positions off the Slide Master, but it looks like this one was missed. I have fixed it on the site and uploaded it again as well.
Art Holden
PresenterMedia
I am suing PPT 2007. I do not have the “Your Logo” placeholder in my master slide. I also do not have the option to add this placeholder in the “Insert Placeholder” menu. I am trying to create a template with my company logo in the upper left corner of each slide. Many thanks for suggestions.
Hello Taylor, Since this blog post, we have removed the logo placeholders from the templates as they were in the Slide Master and became confusing for most PowerPoint users.
You can simply insert your logo using the insert picture function in PowerPoint. If you want it to appear on every slide automatically, you can insert it on the Slide Master. Under the view tab, click Slide Master, insert you logo, and then return to normal view.
Hope this helps,
Art Holden
PresenterMedia