sandy,

thanks so much for your reply, but i think my question may have been
worded awkwardly...so please allow me to try again...

i have several hundred slides that were each created by expanding a
regular textbox to the size of slide with a 'blank' format.  each slide
has a title, but it isn't located inside the title bar in a template,
so thus cannot be formatted easily by editing the master.

i was looking for a quick way to convert a plain text box (that
contains, for example: "This is the Title of the Slide") to a format
that msppt will recognize as "the title bar" without cutting and
pasting and changing the slide layout of each and every slide.  there
are several mathematical equations in these slides and changing the
layout of each slide to "title and text" (or anything with a title)
makes the format of these equations implode...which is an even bigger
formating issue for me.

so thanks for the help, but i'm afraid i was looking for something
else.