"Click here" box

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paul marcuzzo

I am sure this is really easy and I just can't see the
forest for the trees. On my title slide I want a "Click
here" box that automatically deletes that text and then
let's you start typing your text there. THe basic thing
I am after is for an instructor to see a box that
says "Your name here" and when he clicks in that text
box, that text is deleted and he's sitting there with
the "I" bar already justified in the center of it and
ready for him/her to type their name in for the
presentation.

Any help would be greatly appreciated ! I have searched
and have not hit the right combination of words to turn
this answer up. I thought a placeholder was what I was
looking for, but I can't create those according to what I
found.

TIA
Paul Marcuzzo
 
This is a feature of using Master Slides. Most likely you have not added a
Title Master Slide to your Content Master Slide. Go to VIEW >> MASTER SLIDE
then INSERT >> NEW TITLE MASTER. Format the title slide with background,
position of two permitted text boxes and their font style - size - color -
etc.

Insert a new slide and change SLIDE DESIGN to Title Slide.

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Thanks Troy, but that doesn't allow me to change the text
of the placeholder box to "Your name here". I have seen
this done before and can't figure it out.
 
Welcome to the dark side, you don't know the PowerPoint of the darkside.

VBA, do what you seek, for you , it will. (Sorry, I don't do Yoda well.
I'll stick with Bill instead.)


You will need to insert a textbox using the following technique:
View | Toolbars | Controls Toolbox
find the Textbox control, click on it, and draw the box on your slide.

Now you will want to add some code modify the textboxes appearance and
behavior:

From the editing window of PowerPoint, double click inside the textbox.
This action will bring up your VBE (Visual Basic Editor) window and begin a
sub routine for you. The first line of the code should read 'Private Sub
TextBox1_Change()'

Near the top, on the right, you will see a pulldown box that is labeled
Change. Pull this down and find GotFocus, click on it. A new sub routine
will appear labeled 'Private Sub TextBox1_GotFocus()'. Add the line
TextBox1.Text = "" inside this routine. If you want, you can delete the
first routine.

As of right now, your textbox will clear whenever someone clicks on it.

But you also want the text "Type your name here" to be centered within this
textbox, so... still in the VBE click on View | and select the Property
window. In this window, use the pulldown to select Textbox1. In the box
next to 'Text', add Type your name here. The look for the box below that
'Text Align' and change that to '2 - fmTextAlignCenter'.

This should do what you have asked.


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Sorry for misunderstanding. Unless you possibly go with a custom VBA
solution this is not an option in PPT, as no version of PPT supports adding
editable elements to slide master (although there is hope for the next
version!).

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Been there, Troy. Many times. No worries.

When we strive to help others, we're allowed a little slack, I think.

Bill D.
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the capability of creating/adding custom
placeholders to the slide master and/or creating/adding customer slide
layouts which would take advantage of such custom placeholders. With
multiple master feature in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003 you can create a
variety of almost identical slide masters with different behaviors
(animations) and placement of title and object areas for AutoLayouts so
that when used in conjunction with the existing autolayouts you can get
some additional flexibility but you are still limited to the number and
type of placeholders on in the masters to those that are listed in the
"Master Layout" dialog. When that is still insufficient you can also create
slides that are laid out and formatted the way you want and then you can
use the Duplicate Slide command (or just copy/paste) to make a new copy of
the slide each time you need to create a slide that uses the same
layout/formatting.

Of course, if you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that
some kind feature for creating custom placeholders and/or slide layouts
should be a built-in feature in PowerPoint, don't forget to send your
feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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that Microsoft receives THOUSANDS of product suggestions every day and we
read each one but, in any given product development cycle, there are only
sufficient resources to address the ones that are MOST IMPORTANT to our
customers so take the extra time to state your case as CLEARLY and
COMPLETELY as possible so that we can FEEL YOUR PAIN.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

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