notes and power point templates

[Guest]

My company has gone through a rebranding exercise which means I have to apply
a new template to all existing powerpoint presentations (15). This template
also includes a special layout for the notes pages which needs to be applied
to all the existing presentations.

When I apply the new template (slide design, browse and choose the new
template), the notes master is not included. The new slide template is there.

This is Power Point 2003.

I have also found that when I am viewing the presentation in notes view in
two of my old presentations, the background page size is different - this can
be seen on the ruler (by about 1 cm on each side). How can I change this?
When I go to page setup that simply changes the slide size and has no effect
on the notes page size.
By the way, both pages sizes are set to A4.

And I can't send these to word to adjust.

Thanks,
M

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

MB,
I would go about this the other way. Instead of opening the existing
presentations and applying the template, open a new presentation that uses
the template and then use Insert--> Slides from file to pull in the old
presentation content and notes. In this case, make sure that "Keep source
formatting" is not checked.

As for the page size difference: Yeah, it does that. PPT 2000 had a
different definition for centimeter than 2002 and later does. While there is
no easy way around this, doing the insert slides from file mentioned above
should help.

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[Guest]

I honestly haven't tried that approach (yet) but I will be very surprised if
it works because my similar issue is that I have created a new custom design
template and made adjustments to the Notes Master but whenever I create a new
presentation in my design template, the Notes Master is not included!

If I view the Notes Master, it looks like my modified version. But when I
print (the only time it really matters!), it prints in the standard Notes
Pages style.

 

[Echo S]

You may need to reapply the notes master to your slides.

See Reapply the Notes Master to each Notes Page in a presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00760.htm

Otherwise, you'll have to do it manually, slide by slide. So try that code
on a copy of your presentation and see if it helps.

 

[Echo S]

Oh, but do be sure to try Kathy's trick first -- you never know, you just
might be surprised after all.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

You may need to reapply the notes master to your slides.

See Reapply the Notes Master to each Notes Page in a presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00760.htm

Otherwise, you'll have to do it manually, slide by slide. So try that code
on a copy of your presentation and see if it helps.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I honestly haven't tried that approach (yet) but I will be very surprised
if
it works because my similar issue is that I have created a new custom
design
template and made adjustments to the Notes Master but whenever I create a
new
presentation in my design template, the Notes Master is not included!

If I view the Notes Master, it looks like my modified version. But when
I
print (the only time it really matters!), it prints in the standard Notes
Pages style.