Customised slide layout property

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Peter Vanbrussel

Is it possible to add customised slide layouts to the
layout property of the slide object?
The client would like to have a section devider slide with
the appearance of the title slide but the text left
centered from the middle of the slide. Also the
possibility to add a section devider with a picture to the
left of the title, or a quote slide with the quote having
a different indent as the title slide.
As suppose in VBA I could just reposition the placeholders
as they are present for each slide but it would work
cleaner if I could just add some custom layouts.

Thanks,

Peter
 
If you and the client are using PowerPoint 2002 or 2003 you can create
additional slide and/or title masters and reposition the placeholders, if that
is all that is needed. Since you cannot add placeholders or new slide layouts,
another alternative is to create a slide with sample content and adjust the
layout to your liking. Then you can duplicate it whenever you need a slide with
that layout. Oh, now I see that you are using PowerPoint 2000, so the latter is
what you will need to do.
 
Hi Sonia and thanks for the reply,
I was out of the country and only now saw your reply.
Would I not be able to make a custom form with the
standard and my custom layouts to be selected and then
make the slide and adjust the size of the placeholder by
VBA. I would of course need to call the same form for
adding a slide and for applying a layout to an excisting
slide. What I mean is can't I call a customised form
instead of the standard pop-up ?

Thanks Peter

P.S. I won't see your reply until I get back from holiday
in 3 weeks ;-) But thanks in advance for the reply...
 
Would I not be able to make a custom form with the
standard and my custom layouts to be selected and then
make the slide and adjust the size of the placeholder by
VBA. I would of course need to call the same form for
adding a slide and for applying a layout to an excisting
slide. What I mean is can't I call a customised form
instead of the standard pop-up ?
Click to expand...

You could create the form and use it to call existing layouts that you
customize to meet your needs via code, yes. But I don't think you could bypass
the existing dialogs and task panes.

In other words, you can make it easier for another user to do what you want
them to do, but you probably can't force them to do it your way. ;-)


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Thanks Steve but I do have one advantage, that is that the
client wants to do it the right way if they are provided
with an easy means to reach it. Until now they only had
the rules but not the template. I just want to make sure
that they are provided with my form instead of the
original form...
That's basically wath I'm looking for.

Thanks

Peter
 
Thanks Steve but I do have one advantage, that is that the
client wants to do it the right way if they are provided
with an easy means to reach it. Until now they only had
the rules but not the template. I just want to make sure
that they are provided with my form instead of the
original form...
That's basically wath I'm looking for.
Click to expand...

You can disable entries on the main menu fairly easily and replace them with
your own similarly worded entries to take over the original function (but the
original keyboard shortcuts remain .... in other words, you could substitute
your own File, Save dialog box, but you can't prevent the users from doing
Ctrl+S to save the file.

Still, if you give them an easy way to pop up a form and choose, I'd think
you'd be fine, from your description.
Thanks

Peter
Click to expand...

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