Editing photo album captions

[Guest]

Is there anyway to set the photo album caption font to a new default font and
not the arial used in the program? I don't want to have to go thru all 300
slides to change the font individually.

 

[Sonia]

It's controlled by the template that you use. Before creating the photo album,
go to View > Master > Slide Master and set the default font for placeholders and
new text boxes.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Echo S]

Is there anyway to set the photo album caption font to a new default font and
not the arial used in the program? I don't want to have to go thru all 300
slides to change the font individually.

Not that I'm aware. But you could go to Format/Replace Fonts and replace
Arial with something different.

I thought that probably changing the default font in textboxes on blank.POT
(since Photo Album creates a new file based on the default design) would do
the trick, but I can't seem to make it work here. I even tried using the
"use for all new presentations" trick described at the bottom of Create a
default "blank" presentation with your own defaults
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00245.htm, but it didn't work either -- the
Photo Album still came up on a white background with black Arial text.

 

[Sonia]

Create the template with the placeholder font and the default font set to your
choice (Default for new objects). Save the template. Use Insert > Picture >
Photo Album and select anything except "Fit to Slide". Check the box next to
"Captions below ALL pictures". IMPORTANT: Under Album Layout browse to your
template and select it. Click on Create.

Because the captions are in custom textboxes and are grouped with the photo
filled objects (rectangles), applying the template after the fact won't work,
nor will re-applying the layout.

 

[Echo S]

Ahhh. I missed this part

IMPORTANT: Under Album Layout browse to your
template and select it.

I'm sure that's why I couldn't figure it out!