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[Jason]

I fully understand that this question might be on a "pedestrian" level so
please bear with me.

I have 20 or so slides that often get repeated over and over again in my
classes, they are the lesson module and seeing that a course could have
multiple lessons I use this group of slides many times.

At the top of each slide is;
Slide Title, and under that is the Lesson Title for that particular group of
slides.

What I would like to be able to do, if possible is to have all of the slides
from that group update automatically when I change the first one.

Ive done the same sort of thing using Word in the past, but that was linking
a style to a field for auto update, show headers 1-3 on the Table of contents
that sort of thing.

Can this be accomplished, and if the answer is Yes, use a macro does anyone
have a good link for a crash course in VB. If the answer is something else I
would still like a good link for a crash course in VB.

Regards,
Jason

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Jason,

I'm not sure, but I think your best bet is going to be to use multiple
slide masters. If the 20 slides have the same slide master, then the
lesson title can be built into the master. If the master is changed, all
the slides using that master will be changed.

For VB, I would start with the Programming PowerPoint section of the PPT
FAQ:

http://www.pptfaq.com/index.html#name_PROGRAMMING_POWERPOINT

--David