Slide master items become text boxes on each slide when go from 2.

[Hillary]

I created a presentation in PowerPoint 2003. I put footer, header and date
items on the Slide master. Another user reviewed the presentation in
PowerPoint 2007 and resaved it with his changes - but he saved as a PPT (not
PPTX). When I opened it, all the items that were on the master became
individual text boxes on each slide. This occured on the slides and notes
pages. The items are still on the master, and if I change the layout to show
the footer, date, etc I end up with the item from the master on the slide as
well as another text box directly over the item. I have to manually delete
the text boxes from each location on each slide in order to see the item from
the master.

Anyone have a correction for this? It is time consuming to manually delete
multiple text boxes from each slide in larger presentations - and
unfortunately we have mutliple users on different versions of Office.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I created a presentation in PowerPoint 2003. I put footer, header and date
items on the Slide master. Another user reviewed the presentation in
PowerPoint 2007 and resaved it with his changes - but he saved as a PPT (not
PPTX). When I opened it, all the items that were on the master became
individual text boxes on each slide. This occured on the slides and notes
pages. The items are still on the master, and if I change the layout to show
the footer, date, etc I end up with the item from the master on the slide as
well as another text box directly over the item. I have to manually delete
the text boxes from each location on each slide in order to see the item from
the master.

Anyone have a correction for this? It is time consuming to manually delete
multiple text boxes from each slide in larger presentations - and
unfortunately we have mutliple users on different versions of Office.

The answer (the one you're not going to like) is that tossing presentations back
and forth between such vastly different versions as 2007 and previous *will*
cause problems. The brutally realistic answer is DDT. Don't Do That.

The best workaround I can think of offhand is to leave footers/headers out of
the equation until the back-forth is done, then finally apply them as needed.

 

[John Wilson]

Another idea (not without some problems!)

In 2003 on the slide master Delete the three placeholders for
date/footer/number and replace with three text boxes. In the "pseudo date
one" use insert date/time and in the "pseudo number one" insert slide number.
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