Templates and Master Slides

[Mark Robinson]

Hi

I'm trying to make a template or master slide or some combination of the 2
to have in effect a stylesheet for a series of content documents. I've tried
setting up a template and put all my style and layout stuff in the slide
master then using this template as a design for the content docs. My problem
is I want to be able to change stuff in the template/master slide and have
it change the look of all the content docs. It worked as far as a picture in
the background but when I tried moving a text box around and changing fonts
and indents etc. they weren't propagated down to the content docs.

Is there anyway to do this? I've tried linking templates as an object but it
came up with an error "The server application, source file or item cannot be
found" Not sure if this would have worked anyway

Thanks

Mark

Office X:mac 10.1.5 running on a Powerbook G4 500, Mac OS X.2.8

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I'm trying to make a template or master slide or some combination of the 2

to have in effect a stylesheet for a series of content documents. I've tried
setting up a template and put all my style and layout stuff in the slide
master then using this template as a design for the content docs. My problem
is I want to be able to change stuff in the template/master slide and have
it change the look of all the content docs.

In other words, you want to edit the template and have those edits
automatically applied to every presentation based on that template? That
won't happen ... PowerPoint doesn't work that way, though you can open an
individual presentationand reapply the edited template to accomplish the job
on a per-presentation, one at a time basis.

the background but when I tried moving a text box around and changing fonts
and indents etc. they weren't propagated down to the content docs.

Normally re-applying the edited template should do the job, BUT if you've
changed the formatting of text on individual slides, PowerPoint assumes,
reasonably, I think, that you want the local formatting to override the
formatting that the slide inherits from the template, so changes to the
template won't override the slide's formatting. Often applying the
autolayout to the slide again will do this (might take doing it a couple
times, though)