How to change Slide Layouts in Google Slides

Google Slides has built-in slides, to which users can add their designs. Google Slide users can change the font, font color, and background of the Slide. They can also change the theme of the slide. It has a variety of theme designs that you can add to your slide. In this tutorial, we will explain how to change Slide Layouts in Google Slides.

Google Slides have some similar slide layouts to PowerPoint, for instance, PowerPoint and Google Slides both have the Title Slide, Section Header, Title Only, and Blank slide layouts, but Google Slides also have different layouts from PowerPoint, such as Title and Body, Title and Two Columns, One Column Text, Main Point, Section Title and Description, Caption, and Big Number slide layouts.

Slide Layouts are templates that contain formatting, positioning, and placeholder boxes for the content that would be placed on the slide. On the slide layouts, placeholder boxes are dotted-line containers containing contents, such as titles, body text, charts, SmartArt graphics, tables, pictures, icons, videos, and sound.

How to change Slide Layouts in Google Slides

There are three methods in which you can change the slide layout of your slides.

1] Select the slide that you want to change to a different layout

Click the Slide tab, hover the cursor over Apply Slide, and select a slide layout.

The Layout of the slide is changed.

2] Select the slide that you want to change.

Then, right-click the slide, hover the cursor over Apply Slide, and select a slide layout from the menu. The Layout of the slide is changed.

3] Select a slide.

Below the menu bar, click the Layout button, then select a layout from the menu.

What is the default slide Layout?

In Google Slides, the default slide layout is the Title slide; it consists of a text and subtitle placeholder. It is the first slide within the presentation and one of the most important slides when creating a presentation.  In Google Slides, there is a total of 11 Slide layouts, namely: Title Slide, Section Header, Title Only, Blank, Title and Body, Title and Two Columns, One Column Text, Main Point, Section Title and Description, Caption, and Big Number.

How do I change the Layout of all slides at once?

In Google Slides, you can change multiple slides into the same slide layout at once. Follow the steps below.

• Hold your Shift key down, then select the slides that you want to change to the same layout.
• Then click the Slide tab, hover the cursor over Apply Slide, and select a slide layout.
• All the slides that you have selected will have the same layout.

We hope you understand how to change slide layouts in Google Slides.