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New editable text in PPT slide master
We're working on creating some PowerPoint (97) templates--in creating the slide master, we can't figure out how to add new text on the slide master that is editable on all slides the way the generic text is (click here to edit text box). If we just put a text box on the slide master--it disappears if we don't enter some text and if we do enter text, it puts the text on every slide. If we copy one of the predefined editable text boxes, and paste it, the text becomes literal instead of allowing you to click on it to edit it. How do you set a text box to be AutoLayout?
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It's hard to decide what to call things when PowerPoint uses multiple names for same things--yes then I guess what I want to do is create my own custom layouts.
AutoLayout seems to be what PowerPoint calls the text boxes that appear on every page of a Layout or Template that have a predefined style (bullets, font face & size) that the end user can click on and enter your own text. In the built in templates as well some others I've seen, these text boxes _are_ in the Slide Master so they appear on every page, but while the style is predefined, the end user can click on it and edit the text.
AutoLayout seems to be what PowerPoint calls the text boxes that appear on every page of a Layout or Template that have a predefined style (bullets, font face & size) that the end user can click on and enter your own text. In the built in templates as well some others I've seen, these text boxes _are_ in the Slide Master so they appear on every page, but while the style is predefined, the end user can click on it and edit the text.
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Certainly not the answer I was hoping for...but the answer none-the-less.
thanks, points are coming.
s.
thanks, points are coming.
s.
You seem to be talking about layouts. Powerpoint has a few predefined layouts that you can acces to when you choose the menu Format -> Slide Layout. Unfortunately I don't know of a way to create new layouts.
>>How do you set a text box to be AutoLayout?
What do you mean by this?
Paulo