What makes text appear in the outline pane?

[ljb]

What determines when text is shown in the Outline pane? When I create a new
show using "Blank" AutoLayout no text shows in the outline. The other
AutoLayout templates seem to use the same text boxes and their text shows in
the outline. I'm creating a slide show from Access and none of the templates
do what I need. However I would still like to have the outline usable.

thanks
LJB

 

[Sonia]

Text entered in the title and text placeholders from the slide layout will
appear in the Outline pane. Text entered in normal text boxes that you add to a
slide do not appear in the Outline pane. If you start with a blank slide layout
which has not placeholders, no text added to the slide will appear in the
Outline pane.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[ljb]

Is it possible to generate these required placeholders by VBA? Do I need to
create my own template based on one that has titles/placeholders and use it?

thanks
LJB

 

[ljb]

Do you have some sample VBA code that shows how to add one placeholder? I
haven't found the info in PPT 2000 object model.

thanks

 

[ljb]

I will certainly give it a try. I know I looked at AddPlaceholder in the
help file earlier but assumed it literally meant what it said

"Restores a previously deleted placeholder on a slide. Note If you haven't
previously deleted the specified placeholder, this method causes an error."

Since my slides started without any placeholders I assumed I couldn't add
any. I will try anyway.

thanks
LJB