In the screen-shot below, the slide at the top is the Master, everything beneath and indented is a layout attached to the Master. This is similar to Headings and Subheadings in an outline. You can have multiple Slide Masters, and each Master can have multiple layouts attached to it.
Each Master can have multiple layout pages beneath it. The Master slide controls all the default layouts and pre-designed slides included in our templates. To view the slide master - choose View>Slide Master.
The heart of a PowerPoint template is the Slide Master. The following tutorial applies to PowerPoint 2019 and 365 and addresses how to remove elements from PowerPoint Templates using Slide Master. This gives me an opportunity to better explain how the slide master feature works in PowerPoint. The animated PowerPoint Template used in this tutorial. Learn how to remove elements from PowerPoint Templates using Slide Master below. Have you ever wanted to remove a piece from one of our animated PowerPoint templates? For example, remove the globe and keep the rest of the animation from this first slide, but keep the globe animation in other slides.