PowerPoint 2000

[Guest]

I am still using Office 2000 Premium and PowerPoint 2000 (as part of that
office suite). I am trying to create a slide show for my small business to
present on the net but I've run into a problem I can't seem to solve or find
the answer to. I DO NOT want to use the same template on every slide but each
time I try to create the next slide and choose a different template it
changes the template in the first slide to the current choice. So far I
haven't gotten past the first slide because of this. How do I get around this
in this version? My show will consist of 10 to 12 slides and I want to use a
different template in each slide.

 

[Luc]

Aceteleman,
You have run into a limitation of PowerPoint 2000, this is possible in
version PPT 2002/2003/2007.
For workarounds see this excellent article by MVP Echo Swinford:
http://www.echosvoice.com/multipletemplates.htm#PPT_2000_97

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am still using Office 2000 Premium and PowerPoint 2000 (as part of that
office suite). I am trying to create a slide show for my small business to
present on the net but I've run into a problem I can't seem to solve or find
the answer to. I DO NOT want to use the same template on every slide but each
time I try to create the next slide and choose a different template it
changes the template in the first slide to the current choice. So far I
haven't gotten past the first slide because of this. How do I get around this
in this version? My show will consist of 10 to 12 slides and I want to use a
different template in each slide.

My first question would be "Why do you want a different template for each
slide?"

In general, it's best to let your message be the "hero" of the show and let the
PPT trimmings (template, b/g and all that) stay constant throughout. Your
audience will have to assume that you changed the template for a reason,
probably something to do with the content; if you change it just for the sake of
changing it, they'll be wondering WHY it changed rather than paying attention to
what you're now telling them.

But you probably have good reasons for wanting to do this and didn't come here
for the sermon, right? ;-)

One thing you can do is save each slide out as a WMF, then start a new blank
presentation and import each WMF onto a new blank slide.

Or if you want to keep the text style/placement constant but change the
backgrounds and/or colors, you can:

- Choose Format, Background and change the background however you like
- Choose Format, Color Scheme and alter the color scheme

You can do both on a per-slide basis; changes you make this way override the
template.