When you find yourself making the same design change to slide after slide, think of the slide master. You could make that same change just one time on the master and save yourself some work. And in the process, you'd keep your presentation file size smaller.
Also, in a show that has more than one design template applied, learn to work with different sets of masters to target only certain groups of slides for design changes.
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