Edit Theme Fonts

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I have PPT 2007. From the Master Slide, if I attempt to Edit the Theme Font,
it only affects the Footers, not the text in the main placeholders. Does not
happen on a blank brand new presentation, only from a presentation where I
added a secondary slide master.

Also, am I supposed to edit from the "sub" master slide layouts, or the
"Master" master slide?
 
Update: I manually changed the fonts in both the text boxes, deleted the
Custom Font Theme, and now all is working again. Anyone know if that is a
glitch?
 
You need to apply the theme font to the placeholders on the master.

First choose a theme font set. Let's say you choose the one called "office
classic." In that one, "heading text" is assigned to Arial, and "body text"
is assigned to Times New Roman.

Now go to the slide master. Click the slide master (big one at the top of
the list). Select the title placeholder (where it says "click to edit master
title style"). Then on the Home tab, choose Arial (Headings) as the font.
Make sure you choose Arial from the top of the list in the "theme fonts"
section and that it's the Arial that also says "(Headings)." This makes the
title placeholder "themed" -- that is, it responds when you change the theme
font set.

Do the same for the text placeholder -- "click to edit master text styles."
Select it and apply the "Times New Roman (Body)" font from the "theme fonts"
section of the font dropdown on the Home tab. This makes the text
placeholder "themed."

Close the slide master view.

Now go to the Design tab and change the theme font set. You'll see the text
in the themed placeholders change fonts. This is because you made them
"themed," as described above. If you just assigned the fonts directly from
the fonts list (that is, you didn't choose the ones that say "(Headings)"
and "(Body)" after their names in the font dropdown), then the text will use
the fonts you applied directly.

Make sense?

It sounds as if you've just used direct formatting on your placeholders,
which is why they're not updating properly when you change theme font sets.

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