want to remove title placeholder from title master in powerpoint

[Guest]

i go to the title master, delete the title placeholder, add the company logo
to the master. save the file as a .pot template.

when i apply the template to a new presentation, the title placeholder on
the title slide is back!!! how do i remove it permantly??

Same think happends when i remove the title placeholder on the slide master.

please help!

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Cathy,
Instead of removing the title placeholder, try shrinking it down small and
then dragging it off the screen. Those entering content into the slides are
not as likely to use it for content this way. (FYI: If you don't put
anything in the title placeholder it won't show when you run the
presentation. ON the other hand, if you don't put anything in the title
placeholder, the slide won't have a title and will be harder to navigate to
via hyperlinks, etc.)

--
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[Guest]

Hi Kathy: Thanks for answering. When you say "drag if off the screen" do
you mean totally off? or just to a corner. That's a great work-a-around,
however, when you delete something off of the master, shouldn't it be gone?
Cathy

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

I mean you should drag the placeholder off the slide master to the grey area
around the slide master.

And, no - deleting the placeholder from the master doesn't mean it should be
gone. Instead it means you have told PPT to put it wherever it wants, how
ever it wants. It is much better to put the placeholder somewhere specific,
because then PPT won't make assumptions for you.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived