Powerpoint should let me add placeholders to master slides

[Guest]

The master slide template function is very limited. You can only format
placeholders but cannot add them which is very aggravating. I am trying to
include a sub-title below the Title and above the Text placeholder.

Any ideas?

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[Guest]

I agree, for as advanced as the functionality is for Word and Excel,
PowerPoint is about the LEAST robust in this manner. It extremely hampers
creativity or the ability for someone to create a Presentation template that
more easily guides a less experienced person through completion.

Everyone needs to jump onto this bandwagon!

 

[Robert952]

Hoping this gets 'bumped up'... there should be a method for haveing a Master
title slide and a 'sub-master title slide.

Our 'corporate standard' would benefit from a master slide that is the same
first slide for all presentaions. Then a set of sub-title slides (for lack
of a better description) that can be used to separate sections of the
presenation using a different color scheme for the background and fonts and
logos color that match. (Ex, master slide blue with black font/logo
artwork... submaster for 'engineering' is dark green with white font and logo
but titles and sub title in specific locations.

Oh well... back the drawing board...
Robert

 

[Echo S]

The ability to create your own slide layouts was added in PPT 2007.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

As Echo says you can add your own placeholders in 2007 but from your
description I think you could achieve what you are after using multiple
masters (2002+).
Design efficiently with masters:
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC011536491033

Lucy

 

[BobCat]

The master slide template function is very limited. You can only format
placeholders but cannot add them which is very aggravating. I am trying to
include a sub-title below the Title and above the Text placeholder.

Any ideas?

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[BobCat]

What is really incomprehensible to me is that Freelance Graphics already had
exactly this functionality built into the DOS Versions which "inspired" MS's
PPT! Since MS has been so liberal about "sharing technology" with the old
Lotus products - MS gave up the old "R1C1" in favor of Lotus's "A1"
spreadsheet- why don't they make the "masters" work the way they were
intended to work in the original Lotus product? Believe me, for those of you
too young to remember, this was not a trivial feature to anyone forced to try
to do professional work on a day-to-day basis with PPT.

 

[Luc]

BobCat,
Guess you are still using PPT 2003. If it is any consolation PPT 2007 can do
just that, add placeholders, make your own slide layouts.