PowerPoint Slide Layouts Greyed Out: Cause and Restoration Steps

When you open the Layout gallery on the Home tab, you may find all slide layouts greyed out and unclickable. This problem prevents you from applying a different layout to your current slide, breaking your design workflow. The root cause is almost always that the presentation is in Outline view or Slide Sorter view, where … Read more

How to Build a PowerPoint Title Slide That Looks Different by Default

When you open a new presentation in PowerPoint, every new slide you add uses the same default layout. This means your first slide, the title slide, looks identical to every other slide unless you manually change its design each time. The root cause is that PowerPoint applies a single slide master and its associated layouts … Read more