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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / March 2008Slide master items become text boxes on each slide when go from 2.
I created a presentation in PowerPoint 2003. I put footer, header and date items on the Slide master. Another user reviewed the presentation in PowerPoint 2007 and resaved it with his changes - but he saved as a PPT (not PPTX). When I opened it, all the items that were on the master became individual text boxes on each slide. This occured on the slides and notes pages. The items are still on the master, and if I change the layout to show the footer, date, etc I end up with the item from the master on the slide as well as another text box directly over the item. I have to manually delete the text boxes from each location on each slide in order to see the item from the master. Anyone have a correction for this? It is time consuming to manually delete multiple text boxes from each slide in larger presentations - and unfortunately we have mutliple users on different versions of Office. > I created a presentation in PowerPoint 2003. I put footer, header and date > items on the Slide master. Another user reviewed the presentation in [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > multiple text boxes from each slide in larger presentations - and > unfortunately we have mutliple users on different versions of Office. The answer (the one you're not going to like) is that tossing presentations back and forth between such vastly different versions as 2007 and previous *will* cause problems. The brutally realistic answer is DDT. Don't Do That. The best workaround I can think of offhand is to leave footers/headers out of the equation until the back-forth is done, then finally apply them as needed. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Another idea (not without some problems!) In 2003 on the slide master Delete the three placeholders for date/footer/number and replace with three text boxes. In the "pseudo date one" use insert date/time and in the "pseudo number one" insert slide number.  SignatureAmazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk email john AT technologytrish.co.uk > I created a presentation in PowerPoint 2003. I put footer, header and date > items on the Slide master. Another user reviewed the presentation in [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > multiple text boxes from each slide in larger presentations - and > unfortunately we have mutliple users on different versions of Office.
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