Notes Master in custom Design Templates??

[yongkalep]

I am creating my own custom Design Template so I make all desired changes
etc. in the Slide and Title Masters. I would also like to have a modified
Notes Master be part of the Design Template. However, the changes I make to
the Notes Master don't get saved into the .pot. Or at least, they don't
work!

If I open the .pot and look at the Notes Master, there are my changes!

However, if I create a new presentation and apply that DT to it then try to
print Notes Pages, they come out with the standard notes pages layout and not
my modified master.

Am I missing something or this not really possible?

Related: the only footer information I can get to be part of the DT is
static (whatever I manually enter in the master). Is there a way to have the
dynamic Slide Number and Date footer elements be a default part of the DT??

 

[yongkalep]

I think you'll need to create a new presentation based on the template rather
than applying it after the fact if you want the notes master formatting to
apply.




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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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[yongkalep]

Bummer! Wonder what happened.

OK. Basically, as near as I understand what you mean by "create a new
presentation based on the template" it still doesn't work.

Here's what create a new presentation based on DT means to me:

1. File menu to New...
2. Click "From Design Template" in the Task Pane
3. Click on the DT of your choice.

Is there some other way to create a new presentation based on a design
template?

THANKS!

 

[yongkalep]

THANK YOU!!!

It's just too weird that it happens to work that way but I can live with it.

Thank you so much for your help!!

 

[caten]

I have had the same exact experience except that the proposed workaround
(selecting the custom design template from the Recently used templates list)
does NOT work for me.

So by way of follow-up, how can I find out whether this regression in
PowerPoint 2003 has been reported to Microsoft (I don't see it in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base) and if it hasn't, how can I submit it? It's a
serious problem and I'm surprised to see that it took 3 years? to be
identified.

 

[Ute Simon]

For me, this is a major bug. Basically, as far as I can tell, if you make

a
change to a design template, then apply that template to an already
existing
ppt doc, the slide master will be updated, but not the notes master.

Do it the other way: Create a new presentation based on the template that
has the notes master, the new presentation will show the notes master
elements. Then import the existing slides using Insert - Slides from file.

Best regards,
Ute