Add a picture placeholder without a prompt in a slide layout - PPT 2013

You can add a placeholder to a new or existing slide design easily in PPT 2013. Just go to View - Master - and click the Insert Placeholder button.

Drag with your mouse, you get a placeholder with default prompt:

But how can you add a placeholder without a prompt.

Right-click the added placeholder, choose Edit text from the quick menu.

The default prompt disappears. First click the Home tab and in the Paragraph group click the bullet button. That way there will be no bullet in the placeholder.

As a last step type a space in the placeholder, that way the placeholder will remain empty. Without the space the default prompt will return.