I have created a number of placeholders in my master layout (e.g. footnotes,
subtitle etc). These are standard text placeholders. What I need to do is
detect what they are programatically so that I can auto populate them. When
creating them is there a way I can tag them in any way within the template?

Thanks

In addition to what Steve suggested, you can use shape numebrs. You can write
a simple code and fine each shape number in your masters and then use those
shape numebrs in your code.
something lik
ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Design.SlideMaster.Shapes(4).TextFrame.TextRange.Text=" your text"
Just rememeber shape numebrs is masters are not necessarily the same as
shape numebrs on slides, so you have to make sure you are reffering to each
shape in slide masters or in slide object.
Also you can refer to some shapes with a special name in VBA for eample
ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Design.SlideMaster.Shapes.Title ......
which refers to title place holder.
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Best regards,
Edward


"NabilShuh" wrote:

> I have created a number of placeholders in my master layout (e.g. footnotes,
> subtitle etc). These are standard text placeholders. What I need to do is
> detect what they are programatically so that I can auto populate them. When
> creating them is there a way I can tag them in any way within the template?
>
> Thanks

Yes the numbers way did the job. Thanks

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

> In article <34CC9DD6-4674-4BFF-9EA9-(E-Mail Removed)>, Edward wrote:
> > In addition to what Steve suggested, you can use shape numebrs. You can write
> > a simple code and fine each shape number in your masters and then use those
> > shape numebrs in your code.
> > something like
> > ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Design.SlideMaster.Shapes(4).TextFrame.TextRange.Text=" your text"
> > Just rememeber shape numebrs is masters are not necessarily the same as
> > shape numebrs on slides, so you have to make sure you are reffering to each
> > shape in slide masters or in slide object.
>
> As long as you're *absolutely* certain that nobody will ever add or remove shapes from the
> master, using the numbers might be safe. Might be. I wouldn't trust it though.
>
> But as soon as you add a shape to a slide or master and send it to back, every one of your shape
> numbers changes and any code that relies on it just died. Oooooops. ;-)
>
>
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