Custom New Slide Blank w/text?

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andy

I would like to know if one of two things are possible.

When I add a 'New Slide' I would like to have a slide in
the 'New Slide' dialog box, in the list which is 'Blank'
(I know there is already one there) however I would like
it with a text box already inserted, formatted to have 54
pt, times new roman font, font color = white, bold, and
centered justification. In this way I could select the
slide from the 'New Slide' dialog box, and start typing
into the slide formatted as I would like. Currently, I
have to either take a blank slide, add a text box, set the
multi-step formatting, then start typing, or I have to
select a slide for which I have already done this and
copy/paste it into where I want, then change the text (it
will not retain the text box unless at least one character
is in the text box).

Q: Can I, and how do I create a custom slide with the
specs above?, and have it be available in the new slide
dialog box ready to type into?

Q: Can I, and how do I alter the default 'Blank' slide to
have the specs above?, so that it will be available in the
new slide dialog box ready to type into?

Thank you in advance
God bless you
 
Q: Can I, and how do I create a custom slide with the
specs above?, and have it be available in the new slide
dialog box ready to type into?
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You can adjust the master slide, but if you are using PowerPoint 2000 or
prior, this will reformat all the existing slides as well as the one you
will insert.
See these:
**Multiple Templates
http://www.powerpointed.com/multitemplates.html &
**Multiple Master Designs
http://www.echosvoice.com/multipletemplates.htm

Q: Can I, and how do I alter the default 'Blank' slide to
have the specs above?, so that it will be available in the
new slide dialog box ready to type into?
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Why not record a Macro that will do your multi-step formating. Then add a
button on you toolbar to fire the macro. Would this be acceptable?

Thank you in advance
God bless you
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Andy,
It seems to me that you are going about this the hard way. If I were you, I
would not do this with a manually added text box. Instead, I would use
either the regular slide layout or the title layout. To get your formatting,
you would set up your master slides to have the formatting you want. Every
placeholder would then automagically have the formatting you need.

If you are looking to have only one text box on the slide, then set up the
title placeholder on the master to the formatting you want. If you want to
have both title and text, set up both the title placeholder formatting and
the content placeholder formatting.

I am wondering if there is something in your setup that is causing you to
start with the blank slide instead of one of the slides with placeholders.
If there is a reason, let us know. (And while you are at it, let us know
your PPT version so that answers can be targeted and more details can be
provided as needed.)

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Bill,

First of all thank you for your reply. I'm using PP2000.
Two considerations: These presentations are for church
congregational singing. I have formatted the Master, and
title slide to our liking for the title of the song and
copyright information. I want to use a blank slide with an
inserted text box because then I do not get the whole
(sometimes a lot) text of the text box populating the
postion in Normal View (on the left) as the title or
placeholder text does.

Your idea of recording a macro was excellent will you
please help me with that? When I ran the macro it errored
out with the following: Run Time Error '-2147188160
(80048240)': Shape (unknown member): Invalid Request. To
select a shape, its view must be active. When I go to the
debugger, it stops on line 2 of the following macro code:

Sub TextSlide()
ActiveWindow.View.GotoSlide
Index:=ActivePresentation.Slides.Add(Index:=3,
Layout:=ppLayoutBlank).SlideIndex
ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes.AddTextbox
(msoTextOrientationHorizontal, 0#, 0#, 720#, 36#).Select
ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.TextFrame.WordWrap =
msoTrue
With ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.TextStyles.Item
(Type:=ppDefaultStyle).Levels(Level:=1).Font
.Name = "Times New Roman"
.Size = 54
.Bold = msoTrue
.Italic = msoFalse
.Underline = msoFalse
.Shadow = msoFalse
.Emboss = msoFalse
.BaselineOffset = 0
.AutoRotateNumbers = msoFalse
.Color.SchemeColor = ppBackground
End With

ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.TextFrame.TextRange.Parag
raphs(Start:=1, Length:=1).ParagraphFormat.Alignment =
ppAlignCenter
End Sub

Thanks for you help,
God bless you
 
Kathryn,

Thank you for your help. I'm using PP2000. I wrote the
following to Bill (who also replied to my question): Two
considerations: These presentations are for church
congregational singing. I have formatted the Master, and
title slide to our liking for the title of the song and
copyright information. I want to use a blank slide with an
inserted text box because then I do not get the whole
(sometimes a lot) text of the text box populating the
postion in Normal View (on the left) as the title or
placeholder text does.

He suggested recording a macro to do what I wanted,
however I am having trouble with it (for full reply please
see my reply to Bill)

If you have any other suggestions, by all means, please
let me know.
Thank you
God bless you
 
What if you just set your default textbox to the typeface/size/etc. you
want? Then when you select the blank slide layout, you just have to click
the textbox icon on the drawing toolbar, click on the slide, and then start
typing.

Format a textbox the way you want it, then right-click and choose "set
autoshape defaults."

I'd do that on the template and then resave so that all new presentations
based on that template will pick up that setting.

It's not exactly what you want, but it may be close.
 
Echo,
Yes, this would do very nicely. However perhaps I am not
quite understanding. I get a new slide, insert a text box,
expand it to where I want it to be, change the font size,
make it centered, and bold. I right click on the text
object and choose "set autoshape defaults."
When I insert a new slide, I click on the textbox icon
and instead of haveing a textbox appear in the fashion I
defined, it makes me drag a textbox to the slide area.
This is part of what I wanted to avoid having to over and
over.
Im I missing something, because it sounded like you said
that all I would have to do is click on the textbox icon
and start typing. Please explain. I would love to use this
technique.

God bless you
-----Original Message-----
What if you just set your default textbox to the typeface/size/etc. you
want? Then when you select the blank slide layout, you just have to click
the textbox icon on the drawing toolbar, click on the slide, and then start
typing.

Format a textbox the way you want it, then right-click and choose "set
autoshape defaults."

I'd do that on the template and then resave so that all new presentations
based on that template will pick up that setting.

It's not exactly what you want, but it may be close.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]

andy said:
I would like to know if one of two things are possible.

When I add a 'New Slide' I would like to have a slide in
the 'New Slide' dialog box, in the list which is 'Blank'
(I know there is already one there) however I would like
it with a text box already inserted, formatted to have 54
pt, times new roman font, font color = white, bold, and
centered justification. In this way I could select the
slide from the 'New Slide' dialog box, and start typing
into the slide formatted as I would like. Currently, I
have to either take a blank slide, add a text box, set the
multi-step formatting, then start typing, or I have to
select a slide for which I have already done this and
copy/paste it into where I want, then change the text (it
will not retain the text box unless at least one character
is in the text box).

Q: Can I, and how do I create a custom slide with the
specs above?, and have it be available in the new slide
dialog box ready to type into?

Q: Can I, and how do I alter the default 'Blank' slide to
have the specs above?, so that it will be available in the
new slide dialog box ready to type into?

Thank you in advance
God bless you
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Try clicking on the textbox icon, then click on the slide and start typing.
That click on the slide immediately after clicking the textbox icon should
give you a small blank textbox which just has enough room for your cursor.
The textbox should expand to fit the contents as you type.

If size is the issue, grab Steve's PPTools Starter Set. There's a hammer
tool which you can use to make all your textboxes the same size with one
click. http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]


andy said:
Echo,
Yes, this would do very nicely. However perhaps I am not
quite understanding. I get a new slide, insert a text box,
expand it to where I want it to be, change the font size,
make it centered, and bold. I right click on the text
object and choose "set autoshape defaults."
When I insert a new slide, I click on the textbox icon
and instead of haveing a textbox appear in the fashion I
defined, it makes me drag a textbox to the slide area.
This is part of what I wanted to avoid having to over and
over.
Im I missing something, because it sounded like you said
that all I would have to do is click on the textbox icon
and start typing. Please explain. I would love to use this
technique.

God bless you
-----Original Message-----
What if you just set your default textbox to the typeface/size/etc. you
want? Then when you select the blank slide layout, you just have to click
the textbox icon on the drawing toolbar, click on the slide, and then start
typing.

Format a textbox the way you want it, then right-click and choose "set
autoshape defaults."

I'd do that on the template and then resave so that all new presentations
based on that template will pick up that setting.

It's not exactly what you want, but it may be close.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]

andy said:
I would like to know if one of two things are possible.

When I add a 'New Slide' I would like to have a slide in
the 'New Slide' dialog box, in the list which is 'Blank'
(I know there is already one there) however I would like
it with a text box already inserted, formatted to have 54
pt, times new roman font, font color = white, bold, and
centered justification. In this way I could select the
slide from the 'New Slide' dialog box, and start typing
into the slide formatted as I would like. Currently, I
have to either take a blank slide, add a text box, set the
multi-step formatting, then start typing, or I have to
select a slide for which I have already done this and
copy/paste it into where I want, then change the text (it
will not retain the text box unless at least one character
is in the text box).

Q: Can I, and how do I create a custom slide with the
specs above?, and have it be available in the new slide
dialog box ready to type into?

Q: Can I, and how do I alter the default 'Blank' slide to
have the specs above?, so that it will be available in the
new slide dialog box ready to type into?

Thank you in advance
God bless you
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Thank you for your assistance. God bless you.
-----Original Message-----
Try clicking on the textbox icon, then click on the slide and start typing.
That click on the slide immediately after clicking the textbox icon should
give you a small blank textbox which just has enough room for your cursor.
The textbox should expand to fit the contents as you type.

If size is the issue, grab Steve's PPTools Starter Set. There's a hammer
tool which you can use to make all your textboxes the same size with one
click. http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]


andy said:
Echo,
Yes, this would do very nicely. However perhaps I am not
quite understanding. I get a new slide, insert a text box,
expand it to where I want it to be, change the font size,
make it centered, and bold. I right click on the text
object and choose "set autoshape defaults."
When I insert a new slide, I click on the textbox icon
and instead of haveing a textbox appear in the fashion I
defined, it makes me drag a textbox to the slide area.
This is part of what I wanted to avoid having to over and
over.
Im I missing something, because it sounded like you said
that all I would have to do is click on the textbox icon
and start typing. Please explain. I would love to use this
technique.

God bless you
-----Original Message-----
What if you just set your default textbox to the typeface/size/etc. you
want? Then when you select the blank slide layout, you just have to click
the textbox icon on the drawing toolbar, click on the slide, and then start
typing.

Format a textbox the way you want it, then right-click and choose "set
autoshape defaults."

I'd do that on the template and then resave so that all new presentations
based on that template will pick up that setting.

It's not exactly what you want, but it may be close.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]

I would like to know if one of two things are possible.

When I add a 'New Slide' I would like to have a slide in
the 'New Slide' dialog box, in the list which is 'Blank'
(I know there is already one there) however I would like
it with a text box already inserted, formatted to
Click to expand...
have
54
pt, times new roman font, font color = white, bold, and
centered justification. In this way I could select the
slide from the 'New Slide' dialog box, and start typing
into the slide formatted as I would like. Currently, I
have to either take a blank slide, add a text box,
Click to expand...
set
the
multi-step formatting, then start typing, or I have to
select a slide for which I have already done this and
copy/paste it into where I want, then change the text (it
will not retain the text box unless at least one character
is in the text box).

Q: Can I, and how do I create a custom slide with the
specs above?, and have it be available in the new slide
dialog box ready to type into?

Q: Can I, and how do I alter the default 'Blank'
Click to expand...
slide
to
have the specs above?, so that it will be available
Click to expand...
in
the
new slide dialog box ready to type into?

Thank you in advance
God bless you


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