Adding Repeating text to photo slides

[Guest]

I want to add the text "Photo by ............" to all of the slides in my
photo slideshow presentation using Power Point. I want to put this same
repeating text in a customized location near the lower right-hand corner, but
up a half inch or so as to allow space for descriptive text along the bottom
of each slide. Is there a way I can do this, short of adding the text via a
Text Box to every slide individually and then dragging the text to where I
want it on each slide (which is what I am doing now)?? I would really
appreciate any suggestions since it is getting very old pasting and dragging
for600+ slides.

Thanks.

 

[Austin Myers]

Put it on the Slide Master.



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I want to add the text "Photo by ............" to all of the slides in my
photo slideshow presentation using Power Point.

Choose View, Master, Slide Master.

Put the "Photo by ..." text there, positioned and formatted the way you want it.
Close the master view to return to Normal view.

Done. All of the slides based on that master will have the text from the slide
master. The only hitch is that you have to make sure not to cover the text up
with photos or other stuff on the individual slides.

 

[Guest]

I tried that. It only works for Text Slides, at least the way I did it.

Thanks anyway.

JTW

 

[Guest]

Thanks. I will try the Master again.
The way I did it with the Master already only put the text on other Text
Slides.

JTW

 

[Echo S]

You may need to put your text on the Title Master, too. If you used a title
slide layout for your photos, but the text is only on the regular slide
master, it won't show up on slides based on the title layouts.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks. I will try the Master again.
The way I did it with the Master already only put the text on other Text
Slides.

There can be several masters in a presentation. If your picture slides are based
on, say, the Title master or you're using multiple masters in your presentation,
you'll need to put the text on the correct master.

Try holding the SHIFT key down while you click the little icon in lower left corner,
just above the DRAW toolbar. That should take you to the master that the current
slide's based on.

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Is it possible it is on the non-text slides, but covered by the content from
your slides? If your picture covers the area of the slide where the text box
sits on the master, the picture will overlay the master element and keep you
from seeing the text box.

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[Guest]

That is exactly the problem. The text is "covered" by the photo slide. If I
put the text into the picture slide individually on each slide by the "Add
Text" feature then drag it to where I want it, the text is fine. I guess you
are saying it is not possible to do it via a Master. I want the text on top
in the picture slide. Thanks.

JTW

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

That is exactly the problem. The text is "covered" by the photo slide. If I
put the text into the picture slide individually on each slide by the "Add
Text" feature then drag it to where I want it, the text is fine. I guess you
are saying it is not possible to do it via a Master. I want the text on top
in the picture slide. Thanks.

That's correct, I'm afraid. Stuff on the master appears on every slide, but it
appears underneath anything that you put on the slide directly.

Imagine the master as a photo.

The slide is a blank sheet of transparent plastic that you lay on top of the
master. Whatever you put on the plastic covers up whatever bit of the photo is
beneath it.

It might be enough to leave yourself a bit of black border rather than filling
the slide with each photo. If the text on the master sits in the border rather
than where the photo will be, you're good to go.

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Did you try the idea in my other post? Since you split this thread, I am not
sure what you saw and what you didn't...

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

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