PowerPoint Design templates no longer in alpha order.

[Guest]

My PowerPoint 2003 "Available for Use" Design templates no longer display in
alphabetical order. I have PowerPoint 2003 on my laptop and my desktop, and
both exhibit the same symptom. Have any of you experienced this anomaly? Is
there a fix?

 

[Luc]

Leonarde1812,
It's by design, the templates are arranged by color. I believe the order is
blue, green, oranje, red, black, white.
Luc

 

[Guest]

Luc

Thank you.

I am accustomed to working with Powerpoint 2002 where the designs are in
alphabetical order. I can see merit to both alphabetical and color
arrangements, but I wonder why Microsoft would make the change without
providing a choice.
Are you aware of any document that details the differences between the
Office 2002 and Office 2003 applications?

Leonardo1812

 

[Echo S]

Leonardo, I found this, but it's not right. For example, PPT 2002 will open
presentations with a "modify" password applied, but this document says it
won't.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052619821033.aspx?mode=print

Now, if you use "save as 97-2003 and 95," then yeah, that feature is broken.
But it's not broken if you just saved the PPT 2002 file and opened it in
2003 (or vice versa).

I thought I saw something like this a few days ago, but I can't seem to find
it now.

 

[Guest]

Echo

Thank you for responding.

In my situation, I had created a new presentation in PPT 2003 and I was
trying to find a design template by name. In doing so I discovered that the
designs were not in alphabetic order as they were in PPT 2002. In Luc's
reply he explained that the design templates in PPT 2003 are arranged in
order of color rather than alphabetically.


Thanks again,

Leonardo

Leonardo, I found this, but it's not right. For example, PPT 2002 will open
presentations with a "modify" password applied, but this document says it
won't.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052619821033.aspx?mode=print

Now, if you use "save as 97-2003 and 95," then yeah, that feature is broken.
But it's not broken if you just saved the PPT 2002 file and opened it in
2003 (or vice versa).

I thought I saw something like this a few days ago, but I can't seem to find
it now.

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

Luc

Thank you.

I am accustomed to working with Powerpoint 2002 where the designs are in
alphabetical order. I can see merit to both alphabetical and color
arrangements, but I wonder why Microsoft would make the change without
providing a choice.
Are you aware of any document that details the differences between the
Office 2002 and Office 2003 applications?

Leonardo1812

 

[Echo S]

I understand what you mean with the templates -- I'm not crazy about that
change, either, and would prefer that the sort order be user-settable.

I was responding to your question about a document detailing the difference
between 2002 and 2003.

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

Echo

Thank you for responding.

In my situation, I had created a new presentation in PPT 2003 and I was
trying to find a design template by name. In doing so I discovered that the
designs were not in alphabetic order as they were in PPT 2002. In Luc's
reply he explained that the design templates in PPT 2003 are arranged in
order of color rather than alphabetically.


Thanks again,

Leonardo

Leonardo, I found this, but it's not right. For example, PPT 2002 will open
presentations with a "modify" password applied, but this document says it
won't.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052619821033.aspx?mode=print

Now, if you use "save as 97-2003 and 95," then yeah, that feature is broken.
But it's not broken if you just saved the PPT 2002 file and opened it in
2003 (or vice versa).

I thought I saw something like this a few days ago, but I can't seem to find
it now.

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

Luc

Thank you.

I am accustomed to working with Powerpoint 2002 where the designs are in
alphabetical order. I can see merit to both alphabetical and color
arrangements, but I wonder why Microsoft would make the change without
providing a choice.
Are you aware of any document that details the differences between the
Office 2002 and Office 2003 applications?

Leonardo1812

:

Leonarde1812,
It's by design, the templates are arranged by color. I believe the order is
blue, green, oranje, red, black, white.
Luc

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My PowerPoint 2003 "Available for Use" Design templates no longer display
in
alphabetical order. I have PowerPoint 2003 on my laptop and my desktop,
and
both exhibit the same symptom. Have any of you experienced this anomaly?
Is
there a fix?