Font errors in new design template

[Guest]

I am trying to create a new design template (.pot) in PowerPoint and
everything is fine until it comes to the final elements of the font. It will
take the font I require, but on the master I have made the relevant text
elements into all uppercase, but this doesn't happen when you start using the
template for actual slides. I also require 2 different colours of font in the
main text box. Again this looks correct on the master, but doesn't happen
when you use the design for real slides. is this a bug or am I missing
something?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am trying to create a new design template (.pot) in PowerPoint and
everything is fine until it comes to the final elements of the font. It will
take the font I require, but on the master I have made the relevant text
elements into all uppercase, but this doesn't happen when you start using the
template for actual slides. I also require 2 different colours of font in the
main text box. Again this looks correct on the master, but doesn't happen
when you use the design for real slides. is this a bug or am I missing
something?

Neither. PowerPoint isn't designed to do that, so it doesn't. You're not
missing anything, and the fact that it can't isn't a bug, it's just the lack of
a desired feature.

The overall formatting of text placeholders on the masters controls the
formatting of text entered into the placeholders on individual slides but the
actual text in the placeholders on the masters is ignored, so the fact that the
text is all caps or rainbow colored doesn't apply on individual slides.

All-Caps isn't a formatting attribute that PPT can apply to text, in fact.
You'll need to apply it to each batch of text you enter on each slide.
Have a look at the PPTools Starter Set at http://starterset.pptools.com
It's free and includes a button to set text to all caps in one click.

And multi-colored text could be quite a problem. Let's say you have "Click" in
red and "Here" in blue on the master. On a slide based on that master, I click
and start to type, 20 words or so. What color are the words supposed to be?
Half red, half blue? First word red, second blue ... but what about the rest?
See the problem?

Now if you want each bullet/indent level of text to have its own color, that
works. If that's what you're after and don't know how to make it go, give a
yell.