PowerPoint 2000 - 2003 compability

[Desperate]

I need to do a PowerPoint design template which has many different looking
slides (with different pictures etc.). I did this with PowerPoint 2003 by
making multiple masters. As it turns out the customer who will use this
template has PowerPoint 2000.

I read from an article that if you make a template with PP2003 and use it in
PP2000 it "may result in loss of multiple master's" So does this mean that my
multiple master's made by 2003 will not work on the older version? If it is
so can it be fixed in any way or does it mean that I can only make one master
slide with PP2000?

Can anybody help me?

 

[David Marcovitz]

Unfortunately, multiple masters is a feature that was introduced in PPT
2002 so it is not available to earlier versions (like 2000). When
designing something in 2003 for version 2000, there is an option to
disable new features; you might want to select that.
--David

 

[Desperate]

Thanks for tips! I will try these.

A 2003 presentation that uses multiple masters will be viewable in 2000 and a
2000 user will be able to edit the contents of the slides.

They won't be able to create new slides and select from among the multiple
masters, though.

Thinking out loud and guessing a bit ... they *should* be able to duplicate an
existing slide and edit that, so if you give them at least one slide based on
each multiple master, they'd, I think, be able to create new slides based on
that same master thataway.



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