Source Formatting

[Guest]

Why would you keep source formatting when copying slides from one
presentation to another?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Why would you keep source formatting when copying slides from one
presentation to another?

Some presentations have a unified look and feel. If you copied a slide with
a different look and feel, the copied slide would look out of place. In
this case, you would want to have a copied slide match the formatting of
the new document. However, not all slides conform to a unified look and
feel. Additionally, parts of a slide show might have their own look and
feel. I could imagine a slide show with three parts, each their own
particular look and feel. Now, imagine that those slides were coming from
three different presentations. In that case, keep source formatting would
make sense. Additionally, some slides are carefully designed to have the
information shown in exactly the right place. Applying a different master
might completely mess up those slides.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Why would you keep source formatting when copying slides from one
presentation to another?

Sometimes you want the newly inserted slide to take on the master formatting of
the presentation you're inserting into, sometimes you want it to look the same
as it did in the original presentation it came from.

It's nice to have the choice.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply Steve but I guess what I am asking is under what
circumstances would you want to keep the original formatting? Why would you
want the slides to look different then the rest?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for your reply Steve but I guess what I am asking is under what
circumstances would you want to keep the original formatting? Why would you
want the slides to look different then the rest?

Mostly I just do what the voices in my customers' heads tell me to. Sometimes
that's what they want. ;-)

But to give an example that comes up here fairly often, suppose you have
several users creating presentations and you want to integrate their work into
one file that you can distribute to others. Each presenter uses a different
template for whatever reasons. And each presenter is liable to get rather
testy if you blitz the formatting they've worked so long and hard to perfect.

So preserve formatting may lead to "preserve sanity" or even "preserve job".
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