Placeholders

[Guest]

I work in a government of Canada office where everything has to be bilingual
in french and english. Is there a way to create 2 different title
placeholders - one for each language that I can place on the slide side by
side (kind of like columns) so that each would have its text block appearing
in its own placeholder below it?

thanks

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I work in a government of Canada office where everything has to be bilingual
in french and english. Is there a way to create 2 different title
placeholders - one for each language that I can place on the slide side by
side (kind of like columns) so that each would have its text block appearing
in its own placeholder below it?

No, afraid not. We can't create our own placeholders in PPT.

Question for you: must the text be delivered in both French and English on the
same slide, or would it be sufficient to include both a French and and an
English version of the presentation that the individual user could choose at
startup?

It seems to me that this would be more user-friendly (whichever language you
prefer, you're probably going to have an easier time reading it when the rest
of the slide's not cluttered up with the same text in a different language).

And it's quite simple to do ... the first slide has an introduction and links
to both the English and French versions of the show.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply - your answer is what I thought, I thought I'd check it
out anyways. And yes, it would be cleaner to have each language in its own
presentation - that's how they've always been presented in the past - someone
has just gotten a "bright" idea to change things and I've been tasked with
checking it out, that's all. Thanks and talk to you soon!! Where are you by
the way??

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the reply - your answer is what I thought, I thought I'd check it
out anyways. And yes, it would be cleaner to have each language in its own
presentation - that's how they've always been presented in the past - someone
has just gotten a "bright" idea to change things and I've been tasked with
checking it out, that's all. Thanks and talk to you soon!! Where are you by
the way??

I'm in Cincinnati, OH, US where Francophones are fairly thin on the ground, but I've
worked with several Canadian companies and gov't agencies who were using our
software and needed some changes to make it easier to do
multi-language/multi-versions of their presentation.

Come to think of it, if you can't talk TPTB out of multiple languages on one slide,
have a look at our Merge add-in. It'd help automate the production of such a
critter, I think.

Free demo available at http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/merge/index.html

I still think separate versions is better, though! ;-)

 

[Guest]

EXCELLENT - that might not be a bad idea - create one presentation with
english and french versions of both - I'll check it out - thx.