Cannot see changes made in slide master

[tc2004]

Hi,

I am trying to add a line in the footer of each slide ("Source: xxxx"). I
have made the appropriate change in the footer placeholder of the appropriate
slide (title and content layout) in the slide master. However, the change
does not appear in my slides.

I have tried to reapply the layout to the already existing slides to no avail.
I have changed the color of the text in the footer (in the placeholder the
font appears grey).
I tried making the change in the office theme slide master - it still does
not show up.

What am I not seeing?

Thanks.

 

[Echo S]

If you are seeing the placeholders, then try going to Insert | Header and
Footer (you are using PPT 2007?) and tick the box for "footer." Then type
the information in there.

Of course, that's assuming all the slides have the same footer information.
If not, you need to add a placeholder so you can input the source info on
each slide as needed. But that's a different question.

If turning on footer in Header and Footer dialog doesn't work, then you may
need to delete the footer placeholders on the slide master and any layouts
and then re-add them in by selecting the slide master, then clicking Master
Layout button, then footer, date and number. Then on the individual layouts,
you'd just tick the Footers box on the Ribbon.

Basically, you're stripping them all out then putting them back in, which
sometimes seems to help the whole header/footer situation. Sorry I can't
offer anything better than that.

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