animation on slide master

[Julie Terberg]

Hello everyone,

A client has an animation effect applied to the text placeholder on
the slide master. When he creates a new slide, he must apply the
effects from the master to each new slide. Is there an automatic
setting to accept slide master animations?

Bigger problem: when editing the animation settings on the slide
master, we find that they are not globally applied to all of the
slides. Re-applying the Slide Design doesn't work. Any suggestions
for future reference?

Thanks!

Julie Terberg


Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com

 

[Sonia]

Julie, what version of PowerPoint is he using? Is it possible that he is
using multiple masters?

 

[Guest]

If the client is attempting to edit an animation which has been applied to the slide master in PPT 2002 or 2003, he'll need to move it to the individual slide in order to override the existing animation.

But the animation on the master should be automatically applied to slides which have layouts with placeholders, whether those are "content" placeholders or regular bulleted text placeholders.

When you say that after globally editing, reapplying the slide design doesn't work, well, you have to reapply the slide layout -- sometimes twice -- in order for the new master settings to "take." Make sure you're reapplying the slide layout, not just the slide design.

I like Sonia's thoughts about it possibly being a multiple master issue. What version of PPT?

 

[Julie Terberg]

PowerPoint 2003. The animation effect on the text placeholder is a
transparency emphasis effect. When I edit the % of transparency on
the slide master and attempt to reapply (more than once) the slide
layout to actual slides - the changes do not apply. The correct % is
still on the appropriate slide master.

It's a strange problem, not one that will come up much. I just wanted
to be able to give my client an answer.

Thanks for your help, and I'm looking forward to meeting you both in
October!

Julie

Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com

 

[Echo S]

Hm. It may be a bug with that particular animation. I'll try to find a few
minutes to play with it this weekend.

See you in San Diego!

Echo