Changing the design of a presentation

[techrighter]

I have created a design template for my group. It works well for
creating presentations de novo, but poorly for changing an older
presentation that uses a different design template to conform with my
template.

For example, my template specifies a bullet style for each of the five
bullet levels, but text in the older presentation does not change to
conform to these styles, either when brought into the template with the
Insert Slides command, or when I apply my template to the existing
presentation with the Format Slide Design command. The most efficient
way I have found so far to transfer content from the older presentation
to my template and get it formatted properly is by copying and pasting
slide by slide, then fixing the formatting line by line. This is only
marginally faster that just typing everything into my template from
scratch.

I have applied all formatting to the title and slide masters in my
template, not to individual slides.

What am I missing? Surely this product can't be that bad!

[Steve Rindsberg]

In article <1147896722.5...@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, Techrighter
wrote:

> I have created a design template for my group. It works well for
> creating presentations de novo, but poorly for changing an older
> presentation that uses a different design template to conform with my
> template.
>
> For example, my template specifies a bullet style for each of the five
> bullet levels, but text in the older presentation does not change to
> conform to these styles, either when brought into the template with the
> Insert Slides command, or when I apply my template to the existing
> presentation with the Format Slide Design command. The most efficient
> way I have found so far to transfer content from the older presentation
> to my template and get it formatted properly is by copying and pasting
> slide by slide, then fixing the formatting line by line. This is only
> marginally faster that just typing everything into my template from
> scratch.

If the text on the slides in your presentations isn't in placeholders (ie,
doesn't appear in the outline view) then nothing on the master will cause it to
reformat.

If the text is in placeholders but doesn't assume the formatting of the masters
when you apply the new design/template, it's probably because the text has
beeen formatted on the slides in the original presentation rather than allowing
the default template formatting to stand.

In that case, reapplying the Slide Layout (sometimes more than once) can force
the slide's text placeholders to re-assume the master's formatting.

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[Jim Lange]

In article <1147896722.5...@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, Techrighter

wrote:
>The most efficient
> way I have found so far to transfer content from the older presentation
> to my template and get it formatted properly is by copying and pasting
> slide by slide, then fixing the formatting line by line. This is only
> marginally faster that just typing everything into my template from
> scratch.

Same situation here; instead of fixing the formatting line by line, I paste without formatting, then reapply indents using the Shift+Option+right arrow combo. There’s no easy way to build macros in PPT, but you can shorten the menu clicking process a little by making a toolbar button for Edit/Paste Special, then manually select Unformatted Text from the selections that drop down.

This may speed things up for you if no other “solution” works; if I knew how to program the macro, I’d sent it to you.

Anyone know how to program the Unformatted Text function into a macro?

Thanks,
Jim