Rules for Master Page Changes Propagating?

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Scott Meyers

I'm having trouble figuring out which changes to my master pages propagate
immediately to the slides in my presentation. For example, if I add a graphic
to my master page, the graphic shows up immediately in all my slides. That
makes sense. But if I move the autolayout box for text, only some of the slides
in my talk are affected, even though they all use the same "Title and Text"
layout. If I then select all the slides in my talk and tell PPT to reapply the
"Title and Text" layout, all the slides are affected, including those that
didn't change when I initially moved the text box on the master.

Can somebody make sense of this for me? As a general rule, I don't understand
when, after making a modification to my master page, I need to reapply the
layout and when I don't. I could just reapply all the time, I suppose, but I'd
prefer to know what is going on.

Thanks,

Scott
 
I guess the best way to explain it would be to say that changes to the master
appear immediately on all slides that are based on the master, but changes to
*placeholders* on the master require reapplying the layout to the affected slides.

Seems a bit odd just sitting there out in the open like that, doesn't it?
But it makes good sense.

The idea is that you can make changes to the formatting, size and position of
placeholders on individual slides w/o having to worry about having the changes
overridden on every time you adjust the master.

This way you have to explicitly ask for your changes to be tossed out.

And that's a good thing, by and large.
 
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