Placeholders Are Meant to Be Personalized
The placeholder not only serves as a call to action to the user, it gives the person who is creating the presentation a feel for how the type, graphic elements or page layout will look on the slide. The placeholder text and instructions are suggestions only. Every element can be personalized. So if you don’t like the font that PowerPoint chose for your favorite template, you are free to change it.
Types of Elements Used in Placeholders
After you select a PowerPoint template, click Layout on the Home tab to see the many different variations of your chosen template. You’ll see templates for title screens, table of contents, text screens, photo screens, templates that accept charts and other layouts. Depending on the template layout you choose, you may place any of the following on a slide, in addition to text.
PhotosTablesExcel chartsClipartMovies
These objects can be placed on slides by other methods as well, but using placeholders makes it an easy task.
