Powerpoint Default Font

[Melba's Jammin']

PowerPoint, Office 2001, Mac OS 9.1

Is there a way to set a default font so that every time I choose a blank
presentation from the options shown in the "new slide" box that appears,
the default text font and its various attributes will be as I want them
-- say, Arial 24 pt.

Right now every time I open a new blank slide, the default text font is
Times 24 pt. How did it get to be that?

Thanks for your patience - you can see that I don't use PP very much.
:-/

 

[Mickey Stevens]

For an individual presentation, go to View > Master > Slide Master, click
the edge of the text placeholder for which you want to edit formatting, and
then go to Format > Font. Change the font as you wish, and click OK.
Optionally, repeat for other text placeholders on the slide master and title
master (View > Master > Title Master).

For all presentations, go to File > Open, and then locate the "Blank
Presentation" file in /Applications (Mac OS 9)/Microsoft Office
2001/Templates/Presentations/Designs/, and open it. You might need to first
set the open dialog to show all readable files. Then, repeat the steps
above for the masters, and save the file. Now all new blank presentations
you open will have those fonts by default.

 

[Melba's Jammin']

<Banging head (mine, not yours) on wall.> Thanks, Mickey, for your help.

I did what you instructed in your second paragraph, for all
presentations (what I was wanting to change). No dice. If I open the
app and select File -> Open, that takes me to the Dialog Window wherein
I must work my way through the PP files to Presentations -> Designs ->
Blank. If I open it from there, viola!, there's my blank piece of paper
with Arial 24 set as the detault (what I'd chosen and saved for that.)

However, if I have the app open and select File -> New Presentation, I
get the New Slide window with Blank as a selection for a slide layout.
If I select *that* Blank, I get a blank doc with Times 24 set as the
default.

If I have the app open and select File -> Project Gallery, I am
presented with Category choices on the left that show me the Designs
folder. If I continue down that path and select Blank from those
choices, I DO get my blank doc with Arial 24 as the default font.

That's not what I wanted and I may not have expressed my desire properly
in my request: I want to be able to have PP open, do cmd+n for a new
document and have that Slide Layout window offer me a Blank that will
have Arial 24 as the default text font and size.

When I didn't get any replies here right away, I posted to another group
that I read and got this reply (in part):

"I'm guessing the "Project Gallery" is similar to the options that pop
up on the PC when you use the menu system to go File, New. Unlike
other Microsoft Products, Power Point's default template (the one you
get when you click on just the new document icon) is not customizable
by the user. It would be nice if they let you add your own "auto
layout" but they don't."

The rest of that reply took me through creating my own template that
went to live in the My Templates folder. That's one way to get what I
want, too, if I work through the File -> Projects Gallery windows but
still not what I was after.

It doesn't appear that I can do what I want. Another of life's
disappointments. Phooey.

Thanks again for your assistance.
-Barb Schaller