Yeah, you will, because since you didn't answer my
question and give me step
by step information about what you're doing, that's pretty much exactly what
I'm doing -- just wasting my time trying to figure out
what *you're* doing.
OK, sorry,
I have the data in excel (they make us use excel charts
pasted into PPT as Metafile's). For tables, I make sure
the font is Trebuchet, and paste the labels/numbers into
a PPT Table. In Excel, I select the cells copy then alt-
tab too PPT highlight the cells in the PPT table and
paste special as unformatted text or RTF text (in a
title&text layout), then adjust the font size. I have
paste special on my toolbar so its only a click and d-
click.
Especially since for charts I have to copy the chart in
excel, go to PPT (title&text) paste special as enhanced
metafile, then select the old chart (picture) in PPT and
align them, then deselect, send the new one to back,
deselect, select the old one now on top and delete. If
you know any easier ways of doing these things that would
be amazing! I'd really appreciate it.
Ok, so maybe the problem is with this particular template or presentation?
Have you tried saving that template as a different name and reapplying it to
a new PPT presentation? Have you tried round-tripping
through HTML?
god, I must seem like I'm purposly making things more
difficult for you but I'm not lying. This problem has
happened in the past many times, and even before I
created the template I am using now as my default,
yesteday I gave it a name so my default is the PPT
default, I pasted the slide into a new presentation
(using keep source formatting, in the slide sorter) from
the PPT default which is 32Arial for the first level of
body text, all three tables became 28pt Arial (on a
title&text and a title only), but they retained their
boldness and underlining. Text boxes stayed exactly as
they were 10pt Trebuchet. Just hitting paste did the
same thing to the table text, but did alot more, like
changed colors, etc. I also got the same result pasting
the tables themselves onto a new slide (title only), keep
source formatting just make the color of the shading not
be affected by the color scheme in the new document.
Yeah, but I'd think that clicking that smart tag would be a lot easier than
Edit...Paste Special...Choose One...Click OK... At least the smart tag is
just one click.
For me I'd love to be able to turn it off and have paste
be the old way (which doesn't happen when you uncheck it
in the options), because I do alot of pasting from one
text box to another on multiple slides and it is way
slower having to click the smart tag everytime. Just my
opinion, and the type of work i have to do. I wish since
they have multiple masters that they should have more
text boxes on the masters than just title and body, or at
least have styles or something, in 2000 I never had this
problem.
Oh, and sorry, I'm not hit to round-tripping?
Yes, just plain ol' Ctrl+V gave me a PPT table. Pretty
cool, if you ask me.
Cool! I just tried it, I made a new document to test
with, and it worked but still have the same issues. Also
I changed the body text BOLD and the new table (pasted
directly from excel Ctrl+V) turned all bold, as did the
non-bold cells of the table I'm trying to fix, and the
Bold cells became unbolded?
I just started using PUPv5 in excel and the way we have
to format tables here is alternate row shading (which is
an automatic PUP function). So that would be great to
just paste and get a new PPT table, but we use Fill
Effects for the shading, and also indents in the excel
cell does not stay after pasting into PPT. Any
suggestions?? I wish PPT had a good style function, the
default for new objects check box does nothing for me at
all, if I check a bold underlined text box 10pt Trebuchet
a new text box format, I still get Trebuchet 12 unbolded
when I create a new text box, which I Never do anyway, I
always copy to keep the job consistent in positioning as
well as font, etc.
Do I have to re-boot the PC to made the detect & reapair
take affect? nothing has changed that I can notice.
You can't use the title only layout? So are you pasting your text into the
placeholder on the slide? The one that says "click here to add text"? See, I
wouldn't have to ask that if you'd given me step by steps beginning with
copying in Excel and pasting into PPT as I already
asked...
No I've been using PPT since 3.0, I don't use any layouts
other than title only or title&text, ever, except for the
title slide. Sorry again I was not clear, I meant I have
to use Text&Title because all the slides have bulletted
body text 10pt trebuchet regular) I've also noticed that
the alignment of the body text is the alignment I get
when I paste-special into the PPT tables, justified or
left, that is a pain to.
The font on the master slide controls what any text you add into the
placeholder ("click here to add text") will look like.
To set the default font for "manual" textboxes, see this:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00039.htm
See the difference?
Sorry bro, no difference at all?????? I don't get it,
I've tried to use that function many times in the past to
see if that was the problem.
Its too cool of you to go through this, I almost want to
find the reason for it more than having the problem
fixed. Especially since according to the internet I am
the only person on earth with this problem. I like the
PPT tables more than embedded word tables like I always
used before 2000 came out, but maybe my answer is to go
back to using word tables.
I pretty much described the major steps, I do regularly
at my job, doing these horrible 70's looking
presentations. So if you know of any shorcuts/alternate
quicker ways of doing them that would rule. The PPT
rules at work are: charts have to be pasted as Metafiles,
and the tables have to be shaded with a Fill Effect,
Trebuchet, all data comes from excel.
Thanks again!!!
dan
