How to change the language in all the textboxes of a presentation ?

[gdaudin]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi,

I am trying to change the language ID in all the text boxes of a presentation. In previous versions, you could do that with a macro. Does anyone know what one can do with PP 2008 ?

Thanks,

Guillaume

 

[Jeff Chapman]

If all of your text is contained within placeholders
and not text boxes, you can select all text using
Cmd+A in Outline view, and then change the language
from the Tools menu in one fell swoop.

Also, it appears that you have Leopard - you might
be able to use Automator to create a custom workflow
that selects all of the text on the slide,
changes the language, and then moves on to the
next. That might speed things up.

Jeff

 

[gdaudin]

Thank you for your answer.

Actually, now that I think about it I believe the text must be within placeholders. But selecting all in Outline view and changing the language does not work for some reason.

When I select all the text and go to the language dialogue box, no language is highlighted (which is different from the usual behaviour, right ?)

Going through Automator is a good idea. I must have a try at this tool...