One of my peeves with Powerpoint has always been that when you insert a new slide into your presentation, you can’t change the default format… it always shows up with the dumb boxes for the title and content that then need to be deleted so I can add real content.

I found a solution online today (thank goodness for nerds and the internet)

http://skp.mvps.org/setlayout.htm

This page has an add-in for powerpoint that adds a drop-down to let you set this option.