Font sizes in a text box that is not template controlled

[Jack]

I use a template to control the fonts and their sizes in my
presentations (PPT 2004).

For regular text boxes on 'bullet' slides this is fine.

However, I occasionally create a slide that just contains text without
any bullets. To do this I create a new slide(Insert>New Slide), delete
the text box that is created (click it's border, press delete), create
a new text box (double click) and enter the text that I want.

The problem is that the PPT overrides the font size I specify for
these text boxes. It seems to have it in for me by always reducing
this font size. I have tried turning off "Resize AutoShape to fit
text" but that doesn't stop this.

Is there a way to tell PPT to just leave the fonts on a certain slide
alone?

If I could do this through the template that would help. But I need
help with two problems in order to do that:

1) I don't know of a way to specify two different Slide Masters. I
need one for the 'regular' bullet slides and another for these no
bullet, all text slides.

2) I would still need to override the font size on occasion to make
the content fit and don't want to be continually finding that it has
been changed out from under me.

Thanks for ideas, suggestions...

Jack

 

[CyberTaz]

You might try PowerPoint> Preferences> Edit, clear the "Auto-fit text to
text placeholder" box if it's checked.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac