In the previous sections, you learned about the command View | group Master | Slide master, which enables you to edit the masters for slide layouts.
Furthermore, there are two additional masters for special tasks:
▪The Notes master determines the appearance of the notes pages in a presentation.
▪The Handouts master determines the appearance of the handouts for a presentation.
These two masters function in a similar manner to the masters for slide layouts. A master view is available for each of them. In this view, you can change the placement and formatting of all parts of notes pages or handouts. These changes will then affect all notes/handouts for the current presentation.
In this section, you will learn everything you need to know about these two types of masters.
Notes master
The master view for notes can be opened with the command View | group Master | Notes master. An additional ribbon tab Notes master will then automatically appear on the far right. Here, you can specify the color scheme, background, and page formatting for notes pages (regardless of the slide design).
You can also use the mouse to change the size, position, and formatting of the areas displayed on the notes master, which include the following areas:
▪Slide area: This is the large area in the top half where a reduced view of the slide appears on notes pages.
▪Notes area: The area for notes is located below. This area also contains a hierarchical bulleted list as described in Changing the text formatting in masters.
▪There are also areas for header and date (at the top) and footer and page number (at the bottom). For general information on headers and footers, see Creating headers and footers.
To edit these areas, use the usual procedures: You can use the mouse to change the position and size, or you can use the commands of the ribbon tab Home | group Character and group Paragraph, for example, to change the formatting.
To exit the notes master, click on the Close master 
button.
For more information on adding notes to your presentations, see Adding notes.
Handout master
The master view for handouts can be opened with the command View | group Master | Handout master. An additional ribbon tab Handout master will then automatically appear on the far right. Here, you can specify the appearance (color scheme, background and page format) of the "handouts" that you can print for your audience. Their layout and formatting can be specified in a completely different manner to the design of the slides in your presentation.
Furthermore, you can use the command Number of pages in the Handout master to specify how many slides should appear on the handouts, or whether you would prefer to print the outline (title and text content – without graphic elements) instead of the slides on the handouts.
You can also change the size, position, and formatting of the header and footer areas, as described above for the Notes Master.
Note: However, the size and position of the slide areas in handouts is predetermined and cannot be changed.
To exit the handout master, click on the Close master button.
For more information on printing handouts for your presentations, see Printing handouts.