If you apply a slide layout to one or more slides in your presentation, and then go back and edit that layout by adding a placeholder, custom prompt text, or some other layout-altering action, you must reapply the layout to the slides so that the slides adhere to the updated layout.

To edit a layout, do the following:

1. On the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, click Slide Master.
2. In the pane that contains the slide masters and layouts, click the layout that you want to edit.
3. Do one of the following:
   • Rename a layout

      Note   If the edits you make to a layout changes the purpose of the original layout, you may want to rename it.

   • Add one or more content placeholders to a layout
   • Change or delete a placeholder
   • Add a header or footer
   • Change or delete header and footer information in a presentation
   • Reformat, reposition, and resize headers or footers in a presentation

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