Convert Text Box to Slide Title?

[joe]

besides cutting text from a text box, changing the slide layout to one
with a title, and pasting the text into the title bar....does anybody
know of a way to convert the text in a regular text box to the slide's
title??

any help would be appreciated....thanks.

 

[Guest]

I think I understand that you've used Format > Slide Layout. And that you've
applied the Title and Text layout to your slide and that now you have a stray
text box that needs to be moved into the Title position. To do that:

Highlight all of the text in your stray text box
Click on the "Click to Add Title" placeholder text
Select Insert > Paste Special

Now the text is in your desired location and will take on the formatting you
established in your Slide Master.

 

[joe]

sandy,

thanks so much for your reply, but i think my question may have been
worded awkwardly...so please allow me to try again...

i have several hundred slides that were each created by expanding a
regular textbox to the size of slide with a 'blank' format. each slide
has a title, but it isn't located inside the title bar in a template,
so thus cannot be formatted easily by editing the master.

i was looking for a quick way to convert a plain text box (that
contains, for example: "This is the Title of the Slide") to a format
that msppt will recognize as "the title bar" without cutting and
pasting and changing the slide layout of each and every slide. there
are several mathematical equations in these slides and changing the
layout of each slide to "title and text" (or anything with a title)
makes the format of these equations implode...which is an even bigger
formating issue for me.

so thanks for the help, but i'm afraid i was looking for something
else.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

I'm picturing a solution that involves scripting with VBA. I think you
will want to convert your slides to Title Only. I'm not clear how that
will mess up your equations if they are not in a placeholder. They should
be unaffected by the conversion. If you can convert your slides to Title
Only, you should be able to write a script that moves the text in a text
box (as long as you have a way of distinguishing that text box from all
other text boxes on the slide) to the title placeholder in the slide.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[Guest]

what david said.