Add-in available for default slides?

[newteech]

I'm tired of Powerpoint puttting two text boxes on my new slides! When
I insert a new slide, I would like it to be completely blank.

There is an add-in for Powerpoint on the PC that will allow you to set
the default slides to be blank. I tried using this add-in on my Mac
and I couldn't get it to work.

Was hoping someone knew of an add-in for the Mac that will accomplish
this goal?

Thanks

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I'm tired of Powerpoint puttting two text boxes on my new slides! When
I insert a new slide, I would like it to be completely blank.

There is an add-in for Powerpoint on the PC that will allow you to set
the default slides to be blank. I tried using this add-in on my Mac
and I couldn't get it to work.

Was hoping someone knew of an add-in for the Mac that will accomplish
this goal?

No, but pressing Splat-A, Del should do ya.


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[newteech]

No, but pressing Splat-A, Del should do ya.

So on a 50 slide presentation I have to do this 50 times.

I guess inserting a blank slide was too much to ask. Microsoft
bastages....

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Newt,

There are several approaches to take care of this.

One way...

On the Formatting Palette in the Change Slides section click the Slide
Layout button.

Find the Change to Blank button and click on it to highlight it.

When that is highlighted you can click the New Slide button on the standard
toolbar. Each new slide will be blank.

-Jim

So on a 50 slide presentation I have to do this 50 times.

I guess inserting a blank slide was too much to ask. Microsoft
bastages....

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Steve Rindsberg]

On the Formatting Palette in the Change Slides section click the Slide

Layout button.

Find the Change to Blank button and click on it to highlight it.

When that is highlighted you can click the New Slide button on the standard
toolbar. Each new slide will be blank.

Point to MacBU.

Somewhere along the line, the Windows version forgot how to do this; no matter
what the current slide is, it adds a Title & Bullets slide when you insert a
new slide.

I don't know what "bastages" are, but I suspect it's the plural of what I
wanted to call the person who removed this handy feature. ;-)

[wanders off for a moment, googles, has "aha" moment]

Yup. That's the one.

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[Jim Gordon MVP]

Another way:

Format a slide the way you like, then use Insert > Duplicate Slide.

The Duplicate Slide control can be turned into a button and put onto any
toolbar using View > Toolbars > Customize Menus and Toolbars.

-Jim

On the Formatting Palette in the Change Slides section click the Slide
Layout button.

Find the Change to Blank button and click on it to highlight it.

When that is highlighted you can click the New Slide button on the standard
toolbar. Each new slide will be blank.

Point to MacBU.

Somewhere along the line, the Windows version forgot how to do this; no matter
what the current slide is, it adds a Title & Bullets slide when you insert a
new slide.

I don't know what "bastages" are, but I suspect it's the plural of what I
wanted to call the person who removed this handy feature. ;-)

[wanders off for a moment, googles, has "aha" moment]

Yup. That's the one.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Another way:

Format a slide the way you like, then use Insert > Duplicate Slide.

We're on a roll.

Format one, go to Slide Sorter.
OptionDrag it to the right.
Now you've got two.
Select both, OptionDrag, now we are four.
Etc.
Etc.
Etc.


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[newteech]

Hi Steve & Jim---

Thank you for your ideas in this thread.

Unfortunately you guys haven't answered my orginial question. I want
to change the default slide. When I shut down Powerpoint and fire it
up again, I want the first slide to be blank.

I'm dealing with young students so slide sorter plus option drag might
be a bit too much to deal with.

Is what I'm asking impossible?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Steve & Jim---

Thank you for your ideas in this thread.

Unfortunately you guys haven't answered my orginial question.

You originally asked if we knew of an add-in. I replied that I did not, and
nobody else piped up to tell me how wrong I was.

I want
to change the default slide. When I shut down Powerpoint and fire it
up again, I want the first slide to be blank.
I'm dealing with young students so slide sorter plus option drag might
be a bit too much to deal with.

Is what I'm asking impossible?

Afraid so.

To paraphrase Mick the J,

You can't always get what you want.
But if you try some workarounds, you get what you need.

That's the best we got.

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[Jim Gordon MVP]

OK Newt,

Before I answer your question, I noticed during researching that at least
two of the people who asked this question in the past wound up becoming
Microsoft MVPs.

I'm warning you here and now that if you continue to be helpful by posting
answers to in the newsgroups over a period of years that there is a
possibility that you (or anyone else who answers questions well) might wind
up becoming an MVP.

So here's what to do.

Open a new, blank PowerPoint presentation.
Format the slide to be blank (Format menu > Slide Layout > Blank)
Use File > Save As
Change the Format to Design Template
Navigate to ...Microsoft Office 2004:Templatesresentationsesigns
Click on Blank Presentation (that will correctly name the file - don't
change it at all)
Click Save
Click Replace

That's it! Now when you open any new PowerPoint presentation the slide will
be blank. When you click the New Slide button the new slide will also be
blank.

This works because the presentation called Blank Presentation is the one
that PowerPoint uses whenever you open a new presentation.

Now why didn't I think of that sooner?

-Jim

Hi Steve & Jim---

Thank you for your ideas in this thread.

Unfortunately you guys haven't answered my orginial question. I want
to change the default slide. When I shut down Powerpoint and fire it
up again, I want the first slide to be blank.

I'm dealing with young students so slide sorter plus option drag might
be a bit too much to deal with.

Is what I'm asking impossible?

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info