custom footer

[morgancreative]

Is there a way where I can create in my master slides a footer whereby text
from one placeholder can be referenced as the footer on another slide?
Basically, I want to be able to have my template so when user inputs the
title of their presentation into the placeholder text on slide 1, that text
info then appears in the "footer" on all subsequent slides?

Thanks!

Todd Morgan
morgancreative.ca

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hey Todd,

Three ways that I can think of to do this.

1) VBA
Ask the user to fill in the boxes on a form and have that populate various
textboxes thru out the presentation. This requires you knowing how to code
in PowerPoint VBA, do you? It also requires both you and the end user to
have VBA enabled.

2) Excel links
You could have the presentation textboxes actually be single linked Excel
cells. Then just update the Excel sheet and the info pops into the right
places in the presentation. The down side of this is that links often are
not portable and break when the presentation is moved or mailed. The data
does not reside in PowerPoint, so if the link breaks, no data is displayed.

3) Merge
You friends at PPTools have a nifty little add-in that takes information and
adds it into PowerPoint, pretty much like you are describing.
http://www.pptools.com/merge/index.html


Bill Dilworth