Applying Custom Animations from Masters to Slides

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David P. - 27 Jan 2006 18:18 GMT

Hello all.

I have custom animations I use with multiple title and slide masters.
However, I do not know how to 'apply' them from the masters to the individual
slides.

Reapplying the slide design/layout does nothing. I see no way to 'refresh'
the list of animations so it can pull the list from the master. I have
verified that I am using the correct title slide, design, and the correct
placeholders.

Any assistance would be very helpful. Thank you!

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David Piccola
Technical Services Center Trainer
Budgetext Corporation
Fayetteville, AR

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Karen - 27 Jan 2006 18:54 GMT

Hi David,

I use PPT 2003.

Any custom animation that I've apply to a 'master slide' automatically
also applies to the slides that were created using the same 'slide
layout'.

For example, if I select the master slides view, and add an effect
(such as animation or sound) to the master(s), it becomes effective on
all slides that have the same 'slide layout'.

Normally, there are at least 2 different slide master layout slides,
one for the title and another for the subsequent slides, depending on
how you want to present it.

What version of PPT are you using?

Karen

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David P. - 27 Jan 2006 19:51 GMT

Hi karen! Thanks for the quick reply!

I'm using PPT 2003. Here's the interesting part:

When I put an animation change into the title master for example, and then
make a NEW slide, and apply the appropriate slide design and title layout to
it, the animations are copied over.

But pre-existing slides will not adopt the animations from the title master
I have put in, despite making sure the slide has the appropriate master
design/layout applied to it.

Everything else seems to be adopted when I apply the master to existing
slides - font change, size, placeholders, etc. But not the animations. Only
when I create a *NEW* slide does the animation copy over as 'greyed' options
for me to copy to individual slides.

Is there a way to apply these animations to EXISTING slides, vs. having to
make NEW slides to have the animations copy over from the master?

Thanks again for your help!

David

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Karen - 28 Jan 2006 21:06 GMT

Hi David,

Any custom animations that I've created in the Title Master or Slide
Master have always been editable and changes to them have carried over
into existing slides (as long as those slides haven't been amended
individually).

I'm wondering whether some of your existing slides may also contain
animations that were added to them individually (i.e. animations not
originally created in the Masters), and therefore may also need to be
changed individually?

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Karen

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David P. - 30 Jan 2006 14:16 GMT

Hello, Karen.

I don't know what I am doing wrong, then - I've deleted all animations on a
slide that had a master layout applied to it, went into the master, made
custom animations there, went back to the slide, and nothing happens. It only
copies over when I make a new slide based off the master.

I could remake the slides, but that would take a long time, and possibly be
counterproductive, due to presentation timing of individual items within each
slide, I have to 'Copy Animations from Master' for each slide. I'm not sure
if they're changed when I change the master on which they're based.

I guess I'll have to play around with it more when i have time. Thanks for
your help thus far.

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David P.
Technical Services Center Trainer
Budgetext Corporation
Fayetteville, AR

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Karen - 31 Jan 2006 19:23 GMT

Hi David,

I'm so sorry. I don't know if there actually is a workaround for this
problem. Hopefully one of the PowerPoint experts will be along shortly
to give you their advice!

Best of luck with this...I know how frustrating these situations can
be. (I would also be interested to hear if there is a solution to
this).

Karen

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Michael Koerner - 31 Jan 2006 19:46 GMT

After making changes to the masters did you save you save it as a template
(.pot) file? After doing that, apply your template to your presentation and
see if that does not make a difference.

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