Editing an existing PowerPoint Template

[Adrian]

Does anyone know the short-cut keys or a way to edit text
in an existing slide show template without creating a new
template. I do not have the original template file, just
the slide show presentation. I need to change some text
in the background template. Thanks.

 

[Rick Altman]

Maybe it is I not understanding, but if you don't have the original
template, then the discussion is over: you can't edit the template. There is
a common misconception about PowerPoint templates and how they interact with
presentation files: the template governs the initial design but there is not
a link created between the file and the template. (You can always reapply a
template if it changes, but changing a template does not change a
presentation file on which it was initially based).

-- Maybe all you need to do is to get to your slide master: View | Master |
Slide. Perhaps that is what you mean by the "background template"

-- Maybe your background template is an image or photograph that needs to be
changed, and you will need to work on it in an image-editing program.

-- Or maybe you just want to create a new template, which you can do pretty
easily from your presentation: File | Save As | Change type to Design
Template. Then you can easily create other presentations based on this
design.


But the missing design template does not hold a key to the puzzle that you
do not already possess in the presentation file itself.

 

[Guest]

Thank, Rick!!!

View|Master|Slide did it. Thanks again!