Formatting all the text on all the slides in a PPT at once

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John Freeman - 10 Feb 2007 14:26 GMT

Hello all,

This is the senario, I got a presentation that has crazy formatting. I want
to standardize the formatting on all the slides. I want to have a common font
size and color for the Body and a common Font size for the header on all the
slides. Is there some way I can do it all at once. I do not want to manually
edit it (There are over 500 slides)

I am using Powerpoint 2007.

Thanks in advance

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John Wilson - 10 Feb 2007 15:06 GMT

Because the colours don't follow the master or the colour scheme this is a
job for either patient manual work or vba code. I'd opt for the latter!!!

If you go to http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk and look up "some vba samples"
you'll see code which will sort you out. Also on the same page "How to use
vba in a presentation"

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Steve Rindsberg - 10 Feb 2007 17:29 GMT

> Hello all,
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> slides. Is there some way I can do it all at once. I do not want to manually
> edit it (There are over 500 slides)

I think I'd start by creating a new blank presentation that's formatted (via
master) the way I want it, then on the Home tab, click the down arrow under New
Slide and choose Reuse slides. This takes you to the 2007-Speak equivalent of
Insert, Slides, From File. Insert the slides from your crazyformatted
presentation. Make sure you do NOT have a check next to "Keep source
formatting"

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