Place Holders in PowerPoint

[Angela]

Does PPT 2002/XP allow you to create custom place holders in a custom
template that you are creating?

I am creating a custom template for elementary students. I want to
create a place holder with instructions for them to "click...." So
that they don't have to highlight and replace text. A place holder
will also be good because those that don't have text to fill in a
specific place holder, then that place holder won't be visible in the
show and doesn't have to be deleted where an empty text box would.

 

[PPTMagician]

Hi Angela,

I think Echo's Multiple Masters site might meet your needs:

http://www.echosvoice.com/multipletemplates.htm

HTH,
Glenna

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the capability of creating/adding custom
placeholders to the slide master and/or creating/adding customer slide
layouts which would take advantage of such custom placeholders. With
multiple master feature in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003 you can create a
variety of almost identical slide masters with different behaviors
(animations) and placement of title and object areas for AutoLayouts so
that when used in conjunction with the existing autolayouts you can get
some additional flexibility but you are still limited to the number and
type of placeholders on in the masters to those that are listed in the
"Master Layout" dialog. When that is still insufficient you can also create
slides that are laid out and formatted the way you want and then you can
use the Duplicate Slide command (or just copy/paste) to make a new copy of
the slide each time you need to create a slide that uses the same
layout/formatting.

Of course, if you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that
some kind feature for creating custom placeholders and/or slide layouts
should be a built-in feature in PowerPoint, don't forget to send your
feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
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that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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[Angela]

I've read through all of the information on the Multiple Masters site and can't find what I'm looking for. I've linked multiple PPTS together with different

I need to be able to insert a place holder and then add my own "click
to ..."

For example...On the template that I've designed. I want to create a
place holder with directions that say "Click here to type your name",
just like MS says "click here to add title"

I would also like to be able to edit their "directions" in their
placeholders.

Any other suggestions??

I like the site. I'm going to refer some co-workers here!

 

[Echo S]

I need to be able to insert a place holder and then add my own "click
to ..."

For example...On the template that I've designed. I want to create a
place holder with directions that say "Click here to type your name",
just like MS says "click here to add title"

Sorry, no, this can't be changed. Please take advantage of the link John
Langhans posted and explain to MS why this would be a good feature for
future PPT versions.