Powerpoint Master Slide Object Question

[Akiro]

Hello,

Here's the question we've been seeking an answer to for some time:

How can we, using Microsoft's Office Interop library, programmatically
.. . . apply all properties of a Master Slide to each individual slide,
such that the presentation looks the same, but the Master Slide is
henceforth redundant and thus delete-able?

We have created an online powerpoint slide repository where users can
upload presentations. The application slices up the presentation so
each slide becomes its own individual presentation added into the
library (users can then pull individual slides from the library and
assemble them online, then download). The problem we're having is that
we dont know how to access the properties of the master slide such that
we can keep the user's formatting.

Each slide we slice off of the uploaded presentation loses the master
slide's properties - so we need to preserve that... again,
programatically after the presentation has been uploaded.

Ideas?

 

[Chirag]

PowerPoint 2002 and later versions support multiple masters in a
presentation. You might want to keep each slide in its own presentation
alongwith its master. Users can assemble each of these individual one-slide
presentations and assemble them.

- Chirag

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Hello,

Here's the question we've been seeking an answer to for some time:

How can we, using Microsoft's Office Interop library, programmatically
.. . . apply all properties of a Master Slide to each individual slide,
such that the presentation looks the same, but the Master Slide is
henceforth redundant and thus delete-able?

Every slide has a master, even if it's only a blank one, so this isn't exactly
the way to solve the problem.

As Chirag's mentioned, PPT2002 and later offer more flexibility than PPT2000
and earlier do. What version are you using and how far back do you need to
maintain compatibility?