If you're just pasting onto a blank slide, that's part of the problem,
because that doesn't incorporate the text into a placeholder. And having
your text in placeholders will be helpful in your situation.
So instead, try pasting into the "click here to add text" placeholder on a
bulleted slide layout. Then your new template settings should "take"
(although you may have to apply the slide layout a couple of times, it just
depends).
You can remove the actual bullets from the bulleted list placeholder on the
slide master, too, to save some formatting. Just remove them from the
placeholder on the slide master in View/Master.
For your slides where you've already pasted onto a blank slide layout,
change to slide sorter view, select the slides, and change to a bulleted
slide layout.
Then, back in Normal View, drag your text on top of the word "click," and
your text will -- presto! -- pop into the placeholder. Do this on all your
slides, then go back to slide sorter view and reapply the bulleted slide
layout twice.
Unfortunately, PPT 2002 and 2003 no longer allow you to drag and drop text
like this, but fortunately, you're using PPT 2000 -- and it does allow
drag-and-drop text into placeholders. So it should go pretty quickly.
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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Pat D said:
I'm still not getting these slides to copy in properly even when I
edit the color schemes, however, I did trace the problem to the
source file rather than the set-up of the destination file. Slides
from some source files copy in correctly and text from slides of
others change to a blue colored font that isn't set up as a default in
any of the files. I have a separate powerpoint file for each song
that we use so that I can put together a Sunday service just by
copying the songs we are using that week into the new Sunday file.
Most of these song files were created by copying and pasting lyrics
from a text file. It was just a coincidence that none of this week's
music copied in correctly.
Could it be the type of place holder? I don't know how to determine
what this is. I usually just paste onto a blank slide.
"Echo S" <
[email protected]> wrote in message
It's possible that when the text in the other file was created, the creator
chose the swatch designated as the first "fill color" for the text. Thus,
when you dump those slides into a Beam.POT file -- or apply Beam.POT to that
presentation -- the slides are picking up the first fill color in Beam.POT,
and that color is the blue you're seeing.
Not positive this is what's happening, since I can't see what's going on
there. You can check
http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm for info on
how PPT color schemes affect the different objects, though.
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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
I'm using beam.pot for my template and have gone into master view and
changed the font type and color for everything shown and saved my
template. I also opened the font menu without highlighting an object
in master view and checked the default for new objects box with the
appropriate font and color. However, when I copy and paste into this
from another presentation, the font on the pasted slides is blue Times
New Roman - not the color specified for either the source or
destination powerpoint template. If I switch to this beam.pot
template in another slide show, the font colors of existing slides are
also turned to blue. Is this just a corrupted template or what am I
doing wrong?
