lines around the Notes in Notes view

[Guest]

For years I've been plagued by lines showing up around the notes section. I
have a lot of slides from courses that I reuse. I can take slides that have
no lines around the notes section, paste them into a presentation that has no
lines around any notes section, and lines come back on many, but not all, of
the notes sections!. It's maddening. I've had to waste dozens of hours over
the years getting rid of them. I have never explicitly put lines around the
notes section and I never want them. Why do they get there?

To complicate matters, there seems to be no way, other than resetting the
formatting of each slide one by one to the Notes Master, to get rid of the
lines. Of course, if there's any special formatting I do want (bold fonts)
resetting to the Notes Master removes them.

Are there any cures out there?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

For years I've been plagued by lines showing up around the notes section. I
have a lot of slides from courses that I reuse. I can take slides that have
no lines around the notes section, paste them into a presentation that has no
lines around any notes section, and lines come back on many, but not all, of
the notes sections!. It's maddening. I've had to waste dozens of hours over
the years getting rid of them. I have never explicitly put lines around the
notes section and I never want them. Why do they get there?

To complicate matters, there seems to be no way, other than resetting the
formatting of each slide one by one to the Notes Master, to get rid of the
lines. Of course, if there's any special formatting I do want (bold fonts)
resetting to the Notes Master removes them.

I've noticed odd notes behavior on presentations that've been moved forward
through several versions of PPT and/or presentations that've had the notes pages
extensively edited.

You might try roundtripping your presentations to clean up some of the
accumulated PPTrash.

HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00526.htm