print empty placeholders

[Guest]

Hello

I have a lot of slides with a text placeholder and a picture placeholder. While the text is already there, most of the picture placeholders are still empty. This means that in a presentation and printout, the palceholders will not be shown. However, i want the people who will review the presentation (on screen and print-out) can see the picture placeholders, so they know a picture will be added to that slide

Is there an easy way to temporarily display empty placeholders (other than selecting each placeholder (about 40 of them) and setting a border line color).

thank
War

 

[Glen Millar]

Ward,

Not that I know of.

Oooh! I just tested it (version 2003). Go to View| Master| Slide Master. Put
a border on the box that says: Click to edit Master text styles. Then when
you go back to the slides, the placeholder objects have the same lines/
borders. In my version I can change slides to any layout and the border
sticks. Now while I haven't printed one ( the printer is up stairs), they do
appear in print preview. So, have a look and please let us know how you get
on!

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Hello,

I have a lot of slides with a text placeholder and a picture placeholder.

While the text is already there, most of the picture placeholders are still
empty. This means that in a presentation and printout, the palceholders will
not be shown. However, i want the people who will review the presentation
(on screen and print-out) can see the picture placeholders, so they know a
picture will be added to that slide.

Is there an easy way to temporarily display empty placeholders (other

than selecting each placeholder (about 40 of them) and setting a border line
color).

 

[Guest]

Glen

Thanks for your answer. The borders do get printed, so you should need to walk upstairs to check

However, it is not a solution for me, because beside the empty picture placeholders having a border (what is what i want), the text boxes (with text in it) on the slide also have a border. This is of course looks stupid, because they won't be there in the final presentation.

I only want borders around *empty* placeholders. But i really doubt if it can be done by one single click

In Master View, the slide layout pane is disabled, so i can not select the slide layout with a text AND picture placeholder and then only change the border of the picture placeholder

Ward

 

[Kathy J]

Ward,
Are you by chance using PPT 2002 or 2003? If so, set up two masters. One for
the text slides (no border on the placeholder) and one for the picture
slides (border on the placeholders). When you are all done with
presentation creation, select the first master and do an apply all.

Will that do it for you?

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Glen,

Thanks for your answer. The borders do get printed, so you should need to walk upstairs to check .

However, it is not a solution for me, because beside the empty picture

placeholders having a border (what is what i want), the text boxes (with
text in it) on the slide also have a border. This is of course looks stupid,
because they won't be there in the final presentation.

I only want borders around *empty* placeholders. But i really doubt if it

can be done by one single click.

In Master View, the slide layout pane is disabled, so i can not select the

slide layout with a text AND picture placeholder and then only change the
border of the picture placeholder.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Kathy

I'm using ppt 2003, so your suggestion is a nice idea. However, i have text and pictures on the same slide
As well, i'm already using 5 master slides

Anyway, there's not much time left, so I'll just set the borders manually, and remove them while i add the images. You don't need to look further into it

Regards
Ward

 

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