Is it possible to add a placeholder with the "Click to add
text" prompt to a slide master? I cannot find a way to do
this.

Thanks.

Hello Catherine,

Unfortunately we are limited to the Title and Content text boxes on the
Master slides at this time (there is hope for future versions of PPT).

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> Is it possible to add a placeholder with the "Click to add
> text" prompt to a slide master? I cannot find a way to do
> this.
>
> Thanks.

Hi Catherine,

Unfortunately, you cannot create custom placeholders. You can, however,
create multiple masters. See Echo's tutorial:
http://www.echosvoice.com/multipletemplates.htm

HTH,
Glenna

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> Is it possible to add a placeholder with the "Click to add
> text" prompt to a slide master? I cannot find a way to do
> this.
>
> Thanks.

You cannot add placeholders in any version of PowerPoint.
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> Is it possible to add a placeholder with the "Click to add
> text" prompt to a slide master? I cannot find a way to do
> this.
>
> Thanks.

You cannot create that way.
But you can go to slide master, select one of the footer text boxes ( page
number for example), copy it using ctrl-c, and paste it where you want on
the slide. Adjust font sizes, colors and so on if wanted. That will do it.
If you have to place it inside the "main" text box, first reduce ir's size,
paste the extra-text box wher you want, create the text, then readjust main
text box to normal size.
Regards,
Phil

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> this.
>
> Thanks.

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the capability of creating/adding custom
placeholders to the slide master and/or creating/adding customer slide
layouts which would take advantage of such custom placeholders. With
multiple master feature in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003 you can create a
variety of almost identical slide masters with different behaviors
(animations) and placement of title and object areas for AutoLayouts so
that when used in conjunction with the existing autolayouts you can get
some additional flexibility but you are still limited to the number and
type of placeholders on in the masters to those that are listed in the
"Master Layout" dialog. When that is still insufficient you can also create
slides that are laid out and formatted the way you want and then you can
use the Duplicate Slide command (or just copy/paste) to make a new copy of
the slide each time you need to create a slide that uses the same
layout/formatting.

Of course, if you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that
some kind feature for creating custom placeholders and/or slide layouts
should be a built-in feature in PowerPoint, don't forget to send your
feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

It's VERY important that, for EACH wish, you describe in detail, WHY it is
important TO YOU that your product suggestion be implemented. A good wish
submssion includes WHAT scenario, work-flow, or end-result is blocked by
not having a specific feature, HOW MUCH time and effort ($$$) is spent
working around a specific limitation of the current product, etc. Remember
that Microsoft receives THOUSANDS of product suggestions every day and we
read each one but, in any given product development cycle, there are only
sufficient resources to address the ones that are MOST IMPORTANT to our
customers so take the extra time to state your case as CLEARLY and
COMPLETELY as possible so that we can FEEL YOUR PAIN.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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