Text wont stay centered

[todd.roat]

I have a title slide that I set title text to Center, save it, but when
reopened it goes back to left justified. Like a good boy, I did a
search and found a post from Echo stating to a poster that they must
have multiple slide masters. And, in fact, I do as well. But the post
never continued to say what to do about it.

Incidentally. This presentation given to me has about 5 slide masters
- all needed I think.

So how do I get it centered?
Thanks gang.

 

[Guest]

focus on the master that is currently applied to your title slide. What to do
next: make sure the text on the master is centered. Sounds like the master is
left justified.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a title slide that I set title text to Center, save it, but when
reopened it goes back to left justified. Like a good boy, I did a
search and found a post from Echo stating to a poster that they must
have multiple slide masters. And, in fact, I do as well. But the post
never continued to say what to do about it.

IIRC, the bug involves the text picking up its formatting from the first master
in the presentation, no matter which master it's *supposed* to be using.

Reordering the masters might help but it might also transfer the problem to a
different set of slides.

If the presentation's pretty much complete, you might want to drag the
placeholder off the slide, dupe it and move the dupe back into the original
location (the dupe will be ordinary text, not placeholder text, so won't follow
formatting from the master ... the right one or the wrong one). IOW, it should
stay put.

 

[Echo S]

Hi, Todd!

There's a bug where, when you apply overrides to text in a placeholder
("click to add text"), the overrides go away and the master layout is
basically reapplied when you save and reopen the file.

One workaround MS suggests is to try moving the affected slide master to be
first in the list of masters. I don't like this much because then you run
the risk of the problem happening to slides based on the other masters.

What I usually do is copy the placeholder and paste it on the slide. This
removes its "placeholderness" and makes it a "regular" textbox, i.e., one
that isn't tied to the master. Then delete the original placeholder.

The RnR "place exactly" (hammer) tool on the *free* Starter Set helps with
placement of the new textboxes. if you have to do this to very many slides.
Get it at http://www.pptools.com

Another workaround that's been suggested is to change the slide layout to
"blank" or "title only." (Of course if the size bug is affecting your title
text, you won't want to use "title only"!)

I really with Microsoft would fix this one. And I can't for the life of me
figure out why it's cropped up so often lately. I wonder if one of the
recent service packs for Office or Windows actually *exacerbates* this
problem?

[Note to Steve -- I'll write up an FAQ entry for this. Getting tired of
typing it so often lately! ]