When creating a new presentation from existing slides with different formatting, can you perform glo

[brookswhitmoreparker]

Hi:

I have searched around this group for an answer with no luck, so
hopefully someone can help me.

My boss, who knows almost nothing about Powerpoint, is creating a new
PPT file by dragging individual slides from a few different existing
files into a new PPT file, which is using the default color scheme/
slide master of a whitebackground with black lettering. However, some
of the slides that he is dragging had colored background with White
Text. When these are dragged into the new file, such slides are
totally white, with the text existing, but it is white, and therefore
the slides appear blank. Also, some of the slides have different
fonts used on each slide. So I have two questions.

1) Is it possible to drag slides into a new presentation without
sacrificinf their original format?

2) If this is not possible, is there a way to select all the text and
change the color and font in a global? I have changed the design
template, which can change the global view of the slides, but the
white slides in question still default to the same background color of
whichever global template I choose, i.e., if I select a blue slide
design template, the background and text both become blue in the
certain slides in question. I have also changed the slide master, but
that only seems to affect any new slides that we add.

If #1 is possible, it would be a hude help but if not, than an answer
for #2 would be equally as helpful. It seems some people can run some
sort of Macro to accomplish this, but I am not that skilled myself.

If neither are possible, I guess I'll just change them one a a time.

Thanks,
Brooks

 

[Guest]

Is it possible to drag slides into a new presentation without
sacrificinf their original format?

In PowerPoint 2002/XP, click Insert > Slides From Files.
Click Browse and look for the presentation you want.
Select the slides, put a checkmark on Keep Source Formatting.
Then click Insert.
Click Close once you are done.

Alternately, open the presentation and select the slides you want to insert.
Ctrl-C on your keyboard to copy the slides. Start a new presentation, Ctrl-V
to paste the slides. A Paste Options icon will appear. Select it and click
"Keep Source Formatting".
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Shawn Toh (tohlz)
Microsoft MVP PowerPoint

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[Steve Rindsberg]

See below:

My boss, who knows almost nothing about Powerpoint, is creating a new
PPT file by dragging individual slides from a few different existing
files into a new PPT file, which is using the default color scheme/
slide master of a whitebackground with black lettering. However, some
of the slides that he is dragging had colored background with White
Text. When these are dragged into the new file, such slides are
totally white, with the text existing, but it is white, and therefore
the slides appear blank. Also, some of the slides have different
fonts used on each slide. So I have two questions.

1) Is it possible to drag slides into a new presentation without
sacrificinf their original format?

What version of PowerPoint? In PPT 2003 (not sure of 2002, pretty sure this
isn't allowed in 2000 and previous) if your boss uses Insert, Slides, From File
instead of dragging, there's an option to keep original formatting.

2) If this is not possible, is there a way to select all the text and
change the color and font in a global? I have changed the design
template, which can change the global view of the slides, but the
white slides in question still default to the same background color of
whichever global template I choose, i.e., if I select a blue slide
design template, the background and text both become blue in the
certain slides in question. I have also changed the slide master, but
that only seems to affect any new slides that we add.

The slides may have formatting that overrides the slide master.
First, try reapplying the slide's layout (several times)
The check Format, Background and see if there's a special b/g applied.

 

[Brooks]

Thank you Steve and Tohlz for your replies. I was not aware of the
insert feature, and that will be helpful.

It seems that there is no simple way to change the font style and font
color in a global manner, although perhaps if I use this Insert ->
Slides from File Feature, I can choose to not have it import the
styles and that will in essence solve my problem in the future.

Thanks again,
Brooks

 

[Brooks]

Thank you, this is very helpful.

Brooks

 

[Brooks]

See below:



What version of PowerPoint? In PPT 2003 (not sure of 2002, pretty sure this
isn't allowed in 2000 and previous) if your boss uses Insert, Slides, From File
instead of dragging, there's an option to keep original formatting.


The slides may have formatting that overrides the slide master.
First, try reapplying the slide's layout (several times)
The check Format, Background and see if there's a special b/g applied.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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Thank you, this is very helpful.

Brooks