Copy objects?

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I am working with Powerpoint 2000. I have a large number of slides with the same background image. Each one has many obects (red rectangles, triangles and squares) placed over the image to highlight certain areas. Is there any way to copy all of these red objects from all of the slides and place them on to a final, composite slide? I'm hoping there may be a way to copy a layer from each slide or something, If I were to copy and paste each individual object it will take forever
Thank you in advance for your help
Heather
 
If you do Ctrl + A (Select All) and Ctrl + C (Copy), you can then go to
another slide and do Ctrl + V (Paste). However, that selects all objects
from the original slide. If there are a few that you want to exclude, do
the Select All and then hold down the Ctrl key and click on the ones you
want to exclude from the selection and then do the Copy/Paste.

Does that do what you want?
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HMS2003 said:
I am working with Powerpoint 2000. I have a large number of slides with
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the same background image. Each one has many obects (red rectangles,
triangles and squares) placed over the image to highlight certain areas. Is
there any way to copy all of these red objects from all of the slides and
place them on to a final, composite slide? I'm hoping there may be a way to
copy a layer from each slide or something, If I were to copy and paste each
individual object it will take forever!
 
Hello Heather,

PowerPoint does not have the specific capability that you are looking for.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
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Do all the shapes have a single defining characteristic? Are they all red,
for instance? If this is the case, then you could create a macro that would
look at each slide, find the red objects, copy them and then paste them onto
the last slide in the presentation (the goal being to maintain size, color
and position, I assume).

To keep this routine straight-forward, it would be nice if there was a way
to define only the shapes you are interested in having copied.

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HMS2003 said:
I am working with Powerpoint 2000. I have a large number of slides with
Click to expand...
the same background image. Each one has many obects (red rectangles,
triangles and squares) placed over the image to highlight certain areas. Is
there any way to copy all of these red objects from all of the slides and
place them on to a final, composite slide? I'm hoping there may be a way to
copy a layer from each slide or something, If I were to copy and paste each
individual object it will take forever!
 
How about something along the lines of:

I select a shape then execute a "select all the same color" macro.
It selects all the shapes on that slide that are the same color as the
first-selected one.
That's it.

From there I can recolor, group, move, copy, delete, whatever ...

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