SlideMaster

[Guest]

I inherited a 100 slide presentation with a built in slide master I want to
apply to the whole presentation.

The slide master looks great, but the actual slides in the presentation have
titles and subtitles, bullets and sub-bullets, all in different locations and
different font sizes.

I want to standardize the presentation without having to redo each slide. I
do not know why the slide master template is not forcing the slides to be
standardized.

 

[Guest]

I'm using 2002.

 

[Guest]

Dear franklinbukoski:

After you apply the slide design, what happens to the slides when you go to
Format > Slide Format, then in the Slide Format Task Pane, apply (& reapply,
if needed)the Title & Text layout ?
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[Guest]

I do not see that option.

I see the following when I go to Format.
Slide design
Slide layout

Once I am in Master slide, I do not see an option for applying the Master
layout to the entire deck?

 

[Guest]

Ok, I did find Slide Design, and applied the design to entire deck...none of
the bullet fonts or location of text boxes changed to be standardized.

I applied a different design and the background and graphics changed, but
not the font or text box locations, which is what I am hoping to accomplish.

 

[Guest]

I'm really sorry. I wrote a typo. After you've applied the Slide Design go to
Format > Slide Layout. What happens when you apply the Title & Text layout ?

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[Guest]

It superimposes new blank textboxes over the existing textboxes with the data
in it.

 

[Guest]

OK - that's the info I was looking for.

Whoever created your 100 slide deck did not use the Slide Master's
placeholders for text. They created their own text boxes. Unfortuneately,
you'll need to cut and paste (be sure to use Paste Special > Unformatted
Text) the text from the old format to the new placeholders. If you use Paste
Special vs Paste you'll save yourself alot of formatting headaches.

Yuk.
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[Guest]

thank you

OK - that's the info I was looking for.

Whoever created your 100 slide deck did not use the Slide Master's
placeholders for text. They created their own text boxes. Unfortuneately,
you'll need to cut and paste (be sure to use Paste Special > Unformatted
Text) the text from the old format to the new placeholders. If you use Paste
Special vs Paste you'll save yourself alot of formatting headaches.

Yuk.
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Sandy Johnson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint)

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October 28-31, 2007 • New Orleans
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[Kathy Jacobs]

If you are still out there and looking for a slightly simpler solution, I
have one.

On the PPT FAQ there is an entry with the macro code for exporting all text
from a presentation to a file.
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00679.htm

Once you have created the text file, close your existing PPT file and open
the new text file with PPT. It will automatically put your text into the
placeholders. Once that is done, you can apply your new design and you will
be much closer to your end result!

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