How to quickly fix pptx that has 50 slide masters

[wiljs]

I teach and have several publisher pptx presentations that have as many slide
masters as there are slides. Is there any easy way to fix this besides
fixing each slide? I use a sentence and a graphic on each slide and each
slide has extraneous info like the name of the textbook, a Chapter XX box. I
want to remove all this stuff and have a solid color background. Currently
using slide master doesn't seem to work since each slide is a master. It
takes much time to modify each slide.

Another strange quirk: in these files if I switch to outline view, none of
the titles or bullets on the slides are visible in the left (outlilne) side.

In some presentations I can highlight all the text in outline view and
change the color and font. But in these pptxs I don't see the text. I have
to click each slide and then in the right pane (slide) I can see the bullets
and so on.

Thanks in advance.

John

 

[Troy Chollar]

You can reassign slides to new master slide formatting.
1. open presentation
2. go to slide sorter view
3. highlight all slides to update to a consistent, single, master slide
4. go to DESIGN tab
5. select any of the design styles and all slides will update to that
background, color scheme and formatting

The big issue is how the slides were originally created. If they were all
created with content on master slide placeholders they will update pretty
seamlessly. But if text is not on master slide placeholders there is no
information to update to and needs to be accomplished manually (sorry).

As for the outline pane, it is the same thing. The outline pane pulls
content from the master slide placeholders. If text is not created in a
placholder the outline has nothing to pull info from.

Hopefully that gives some suggestions on why things are happening and
possibilities for updating.

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Troy
TLC Creative Services, Inc.
A MS powerPoint MVP
www.tlccreative.com
www.ThePowerPointBlog.com