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Slide Masters in PowerPoint 97

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by porsha 1 view

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Hi

During a training session in PowerPoint 97 I came across a problem with the Slide master in one of the presentations. We created a presentation as a group and went into the slide master and made changes to the fonts of the title and the bulleted text, when we came out all the slides had changed accordingly. However when I got the class to do an exercise on slide masters they all had the same problem that no matter what they changed the font to on the slide master it wouldn't change the titles on the slides. All the bulleted text changed with no problems but none of the titles. The only way to make the text pick up the new font was to delete it and retype it in (it wouldn't even pick up the new font when you highlighted the text and typed over it!)
Has anyone come across this problem before, and if so what is causing it?

hanks

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by juliap

There are three possibilities.
1. Text was not typed in the master area. it's in small text boxes therefore changes from master do not apply

2. Slide is using a different layout that the master you modified. Reapply the slide layout for which you made modification

3. Corrupted slide.

by porsha

Hi

Thanks for that, however it can't be any of the possibilities. All text, apart from one slide which i knew wouldn't follow the master, was typed in the master area. All the slides apart from the Title slides have the same layout as the master. And it can't be a corrupted slide as it happened to all 6 slides in each of the 4 presentations that were created.
It also happened again in another training session!

by dklippert

If the font is changed after a design is applied, it will retain the "custom" formating, even if a new master style is applied.
The theory may be that you had a reason to over ride the original scheme, so PP will accept your decision.

by porsha

I'm afraid I haven't yet found a solution. I think it may just have to be put down to 'Office 97 oddities'!! We're in the process of upgrading to 2000 now so hopefully it'll work in this version

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