Enlarging a PPT background without Moving Text

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In PPT2000, on existing presentations, I need to add blank space to the
bottom, and to the left, of the master slide, WITHOUT moving the existing
slide text & graphics. (I need to add background graphics & controls that
will not be covered up by existing slide contents)

In other words, I need to enlarge the slide master, but not stretch the
slide contents to cover the new area.

How can I do that?

And, is it easier with PPT2002?

THANKS!!!
 
Okay, this is a little hokey (and won't do backgrounds), but...
1) View the master slide and select everything on your master other than the
placeholders
2) Cut what you have selected (so that it is in the clipboard)
3) Go to Page Setup and increase your page size as you need
4) Go back to your master
5) Paste
Your content should show up on the slide, unstretched. Adjust the sizes of
your placeholders to fit back within the pasted area and you are there.

Now, if you have a graphic inserted as the background, you will need to do a
few additional steps:
Before you start:
1) Make a copy of your presentation
2) Remove everything except the background from your master slide
3) Insert a slide in your presentation - it should be a blank slide (no
placeholders)
4) Save the slide as a graphic
5) Close your copy and open the original
6) Go to the master. Set the background to none
7) Insert the saved slide as a graphic. Move it behind everything else.
8) Select everything on the slide except the placeholders and continue from
step 2 above.

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YES! This works (for background graphics I simply removed them, then added
them in later).

Thanks!!!
 
Glad I could help. Does this make up for missing a step in the Summary slide
instructions? I hope so!:)
(I really am usually this level of thorough in my instructions. But, it's
been a long and stormy day and the other one slipped through the cracks.)

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Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft PPT MVP
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I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
 
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