New template didnt change text on some slides

[Di]

In PPT 2007 I applied new template to PPT and got rid of the old template.
It seems to work, but on some slides the content text and titles still
appear as they were
before (meaning font and color did not change) and on some other slides
applied new template changed all text characteristics.

There are no remaining layout slides in Master template.

Is there a way to fix it, so when I apply the new template all the text will
get new template characteristics (font and colors)?

 

[David Marcovitz]

In PPT 2007 I applied new template to PPT and got rid of the old template.
It seems to work, but on some slides the content text and titles still
appear as they were
before (meaning font and color did not change) and on some other slides
applied new template changed all text characteristics.

There are no remaining layout slides in Master template.

Is there a way to fix it, so when I apply the new template all the text will
get new template characteristics (font and colors)?

Changes in the template only affect text in placeholders. I wonder if some
of the text is in text boxes that were drawn, not in placeholders.
--David
--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[Di]

thnx David,
How can I check if the text box was drawn or is that text a place holder?

 

[David Marcovitz]

The easiest way is probably to deleted the contents and click outside the
text box. If you get something like "Click here to add text" in the text
box, it is a placeholder. If you get nothing, it was a drawn shape. Don't
delete the box itself; highlight the text inside it and delete the text.
--David

thnx David,
How can I check if the text box was drawn or is that text a place holder?

--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[Di]

Thanx again,
After deleting the the text inside the boxes there's "Click here to add
text", so it means that the new template didn't change the place holders. Do
you know what might be wrong? Or maybe I'm missing something?

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Di

Have you tried reapplying the slide layouts on the problem slides? Sometimes
you have to give PowerPoint a bit of a nudge...

Lucy

--
Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

 

[Gil Segal]

Di,

In my experience fonts and colors change automatically when the font/color
used in the original slide is a theme font/color, in which case, PPT assigns
the corresponding font/color from the new theme.

So for example, if the theme of your original slide specified Arial as the
body font and black as the dark text color and your new theme specified
Verdana as the body font and blue as the dark text color, then the following
changes would happen when you applied the new theme:

- Any Arial body text would get changed to Verdana
- Any text that was assigned the black text theme color would be changed to
blue. Note that if the text was set to black but not as a theme color, then
it would not get changed.

These changes occur whether or not the text is in a placeholder.

Gil Segal
www.toolstoo.com