master slides

[Guest]

Hi, When I start a new presentation I go to Master slide view. I want to use either use the title placeholder or the subtitle placeholder not both. When I delete one or the other from the master view it does show up on the normal view. I make about 100 slides per week with beautiful backgrounds and 2 or 3 lines of text on each. Then I save them on my hardrive which I can use later. Most of the time I like to change the background and when I check the checkbox to delete background from master slides it doesnt work sometimes. Any suggestions on these. Thanks

 

[Guest]

This is Alice again. I use XP 2002 Thanks

 

[PPTMagician]

Hi Alice,

PowerPoint doesn't (currently) allow customization of the
placeholders. You have to use the slide layouts included
in PowerPoint and add/delete the items you want.

HTH,
Glenna

 

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[Guest]

Thank you for your response. I am trying to understand your answer. So if I am correct, I have to delete from every slide the title placeholder so I can use the main placeholder. (The title placeholder gets in my way) I wish I could delete the title placeholder from the master slide. This is alot of work for me to delete the title placeholder on 100 slides per week.Thanks again, I have alot more questions.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Why go to all the bother to delete it. If it is not used, it does not appear on
your slide. If you don't want them, then drag them off the slide. If used, they
will still show up in your outline, but not in the presentation, Once you have
either moved them or deleted them, then save your presentation as a template
file .pot so that the next time you use the template you won't have to move
things around.

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Thank you for your response. I am trying to understand your answer. So if I am
correct, I have to delete from every slide the title placeholder so I can use
the main placeholder. (The title placeholder gets in my way) I wish I could
delete the title placeholder from the master slide. This is alot of work for me
to delete the title placeholder on 100 slides per week.Thanks again, I have alot
more questions.

 

[Michael Koerner]

They will drag off to the side. Change your view to something like 50%, and try
it again. Sometimes if your at full screen, PowerPoint gets confused, when you
try to move the place holders. Once they are moved, you can return your view to
whatever it was in the first place.

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Thanks I have never tried saving it as a file .pot I will try that. As for
dragging it off the slide I have tried that in Normal View and also Master View
and it wont go off the slide at all. Thanks Alice

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thank you for your response. I am trying to understand your answer. So if I

am correct, I have to delete from every slide the title placeholder so I can
use the main placeholder. (The title placeholder gets in my way) I wish I
could delete the title placeholder from the master slide. This is alot of
work for me to delete the title placeholder on 100 slides per week.

You could use a regular slide instead of the Title master slide. Then apply
the Title Only layout to it. You get just a title placeholder, no subtitle.

You could edit the slide master so that the title placeholder is where you
want it, formatted the way you'd like it.

I think that'd work nicely in this situation.

Thanks again, I have alot more questions.

We'll be right here. With answers. Some of them useful, even! ;-)

 

[Guest]

Michael, When I insert from "files from outline" my word document comes over to PP and some of the words are hidden with the main placeholder. I have to go through all of my presentation to delete the main placeholder on every slide then I can center the title placeholder where I want it. I dont know why the document inserts itself in the title placeholder to begin with. That's why I like to get rid of the title placeholder from the master first before I insert the document. But when I do that and the title placeholder shows up anyway. This thing is driving me nuts. I really know alot but not in the right combination. Thanks Alice

 

[Guest]

Steve, this does seem to work the best= Dont use master slide layout just normal slide layout and use the title placeholder. But I would really like to use the master slides so I dont have to go into every slide of my presentation and change things. It would be so much easier just to do it off the master slide. Everyone I personally talk to does not use the master layout. I wonder why? Alice

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, this does seem to work the best= Dont use master slide layout just

normal slide layout and use the title placeholder. But I would really like to use
the master slides so I dont have to go into every slide of my presentation and
change things. It would be so much easier just to do it off the master slide.
Everyone I personally talk to does not use the master layout. I wonder why? Alice
I've lost track of the original thread here ... it's always best to reply to an
ongoing series of messages rather than start a new post, 'kay?

Most people don't know that that the master slide is there or how much work you
can save yourself by understanding how to use it. Once they understand, they use
it, I promise.

 

[Guest]

Steve, This is Alice again. Last night I worked up a master slide the way I wanted it and then closed it and it's not in the normal slide view, why? Thanks Alice

 

[Sonia]

Did you save the file after making your changes? If not then they have been
lost and will need to be made again. The Master Slide is physically part of
your presentation.
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Steve, This is Alice again. Last night I worked up a master slide the way

I wanted it and then closed it and it's not in the normal slide view, why?
Thanks Alice

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, This is Alice again. Last night I worked up a master slide the way I

wanted it and then closed it and it's not in the normal slide view, why? Thanks

Master slides never show up in normal view. They *control* what the slides you
add in normal view *look like*.

First off, did you save the presentation before closing?

Next, try opening the presentation again, then add a new slide and apply the
master you worked on.

 

[Guest]

Steve, This is what I did. Starting a new presentation=open PP go to View Master slide-INsert picture from file-Pick a picture stretch it out to fit the slide-go to draw take picture to background so the placeholders are on top of the picture.Then I delete main placeholder maybe I shouldnt do this but I do then arrange title placeholder where I want it and pick the font and size and color and bold etc. then I "save as" give it a name and pick Design template. Then close out the master slide to view the normal view. The subtitle placeholder shows up filled in white with black outline line around it. Why? Delete the subtitle placeholder. Select the one and only slide I have in the left pane-go to Insert slides from outline pick a song text in documents folder- insert, once again big placeholder shows up filled in white with black outline line around the white box. Why? Then I go through all 10 slides to delete that white placeholder so my picture with the text shows up on the slides. What am I doing wrong! Please help. Thanks Alice

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, This is what I did. Starting a new presentation=open PP go to View

Master slide-INsert picture from file-Pick a picture stretch it out to fit the
slide-go to draw take picture to background so the placeholders are on top of
the picture.Then I delete main placeholder maybe I shouldnt do this but I do
then arrange title placeholder where I want it and pick the font and size and
color and bold etc. then I "save as" give it a name and pick Design template.
Then close out the master slide to view the normal view. The subtitle
placeholder shows up filled in white with black outline line around it. Why?
Are you in B/W view, by any chance?

Try creating both a title and a slide master, for starters.
Go back to Master view, choose Insert Title Master.
Modify that to suit

Now new Title slides will be based on the title master, while other slides
will be based on the Slide master.

Delete the subtitle placeholder. Select the one and only slide I have in the
left pane-go to Insert slides from outline pick a song text in documents
folder- insert, once again big placeholder shows up filled in white with black
outline line around the white box. Why? Then I go through all 10 slides to
delete that white placeholder so my picture with the text shows up on the
slides. What am I doing wrong! Please help. Thanks Alice

 

[Guest]

Steve, I don't know what B & W view is, and I looked around and couldnt find it. I did as you said-made a title master and slide master and modified it the way I wanted and I saved it and also pickeled it which is you put the little stick pin on it to preserve it so it wont go away. Got it just the way I wanted it and tried putting on a picture on it and it wont take the picture. Close it out went to normal view and added a picture- went to insert from files from outline to add the song text and that blassed white filled title placeholder showed up with the black outline line also. My friend in Canada told me to go into master view select the placeholder go to format placeholder and choose no fill no line and that is already choosen. Why is this happening. My partner at work thinks my pp is messed up. Another customer of mine thinks I should unistall it an re install it. I dont know if I should do that. Thanks Alice

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, I don't know what B & W view is, and I looked around and couldnt find

it.

From the View menu bar, choose Black and White (or rather in this case see if
there's already a checkmark next to it; if so, click again to turn it off)

I did as you said-made a title master and slide master and modified it the way
I wanted and I saved it and also pickeled it which is you put the little stick
pin on it to preserve it so it wont go away.

The which? You lost me on that one.
wont take the picture.

Why not? Were there error messages? If so, what did they say?
What exactly did you do to add a picture? What steps did you follow?
files from outline to add the song text

Let's skip that step for right now. See if you can just add text to the
PowerPoint outline view on the left of your screen or directly to the slides
by clicking on the "Click to add xxx" boxes.
outline line also. My friend in Canada told me to go into master view select
the placeholder go to format placeholder and choose no fill no line and that
is already choosen. Why is this happening. My partner at work thinks my pp is
messed up. Another customer of mine thinks I should unistall it an re install
it. I dont know if I should do that. Thanks Alice

 

[Echo S]

I did as you said-made a title master and slide master and modified it the way
I wanted and I saved it and also pickeled it which is you put the little stick
pin on it to preserve it so it wont go away.

The which? You lost me on that one.

This sounds to me as if Alice is using PPT 2002 or 2003. You have to
"preserve the master" (right-click and choose Preserve Master -- you get a
little thumbtack icon after doing this) if you create a master slide but
haven't applied it to any slides yet. If you don't do this, PPT will delete
the master since no slides are using it.

 

[Guest]

Oh Steve I forgot to tell you on your question about if I had any error messages when doing my presentation. No no error messages at all. Alice