2nd Design Template in PowerPoint 2007

[Novice]

I would like to add a different design template to one slide in a
presentation. I did this easily in earlier versions of PowerPoint, but 2007
has me stumped. I used a "work-around" but it was time consuming and awkward.

I haven't found any solution lby ooking through Microsoft training and demos.

Anyone else have a solution? I can't be the only person who needs to change
the design of only one slide.

 

[John Wilson]

Does right click on the design and apply to selected slides not work for you?

 

[Luc]

Novice,
Have you tried selecting the slide, right clicking the theme, and choosing
apply to selected slides? You could also browse to the templates folder
using 'search for theme option' when you click on the more button in the
themes group. Select your template there and hit apply. It will be buried in
the folder tree. But if you simulate save as a ppt potx, PPT will take you
to that folder automatically.
That said, maybe there are other means of getting there. If so somebody will
correct me.

 

[Novice]

Thank you! I should have known it would be something simple...as long as you
know what it is! I had tried right-clicking on my slide...but NOT on the
template. It certainly worked, thank you again.

 

[Novice]

Thank you. Right-clicking on the template DOES work. I hadn't tried that; I
had tried right-clicking on the slide...but not the template. You also
anticipated and solved another little problem for me. I have many, many
templates from my PPT 2003 software. I saved them to a CD when I switched to
Vista and Office 2007 and uploaded them into my new computer (finding the
correct location was interesting).

I believe I understand why they are not showing up when I click on
Design...because I haven't changed them from .ppt to .pptx. It is a pain to
always have to search for them. And getting them into my Design area we that
I CAN right-click on them wasn't working for me. As you know, selecting a
design from the file path always results in the entire presentation changing
to that template.

I'm going to start converting them right now! Thanks so much for your help.