Changing master slide

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Don McClure

Whenever I Insert a new slide it has two text boxes already there; one for
the title and one for the body. I would like it to insert a blank slide
without all that stuff. I will set my own text boxes thank you. I have made
a template that has the slide graphics I want with the logos I want in each
page. That works OK. I just don't want those stupid pre-arranged text boxes.

Thanks for your help.

kaldon
 
About all I can offer is the standard route to select the layout you want.
Format > Slide Layout and select the blank layout.
 
Perhaps I didn't explain it very well. Oh, I'm using PPT XP

I created a pot file by creating a master slide with a logo at the top. When
I created the initial slide I chose Blank Slide, went to Master View, erased
all text boxes that were there by default, put in my logo, and saved it as a
..pot file.

Now when I want a new presentation I select that template. First slide comes
up with the logo and the rest is blank - just like I expected.

Ready for slide two and I click on Insert/New Slide (or CTRL-M) and I get a
new slide with two text boxes: one for a title at the top that says "Click
to add text", and a second one in the body which also says "Click to add
text".

I have found the following anomaly: If I select Format/Slide Layout this
opens the Slide Layout pane on the right side. In that pane if I click on
blank slide it inserts a blank slide like I want without those text boxes.
The default seems to be one of the layouts shown in the Text Layouts. I
can't see any way to change this.

kaldon
 
Are you sure you made the change to the Slide Master and not the Title
Master?

Bob Ostwald
 
Yup, I changed the Slide Master.

kaldon


Bob Ostwald said:
Are you sure you made the change to the Slide Master and not the Title
Master?

Bob Ostwald


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I think that what you're after is the blank slide layout to be your
default layout. Unfortunately, I don't think there's a way to do that.

There was some discussion within the past week on this subject, though.
You might want to search http://groups.google.com (advanced group
search) on microsoft.public.powerpoint to see if you can turn anything
up.
 
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