Global changes throughout entire presentation

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I build a lot of presentations. I collect my content from different sources,
for example: other presentations, web pages, word docs and PDFs to mane a few.

I have a slide master with the desired formatting and layout. When I copy
and paste into the presentation sometimes it retains the formatting from
whatever the source document is. So I am looking for a way to select all the
slides and make things uniform or to force all slides to inherit from the
slide master.

Thank you in advance for your time,

Robert
 
Rmandelbaum said:
I build a lot of presentations. I collect my content from different sources,
for example: other presentations, web pages, word docs and PDFs to mane a few.

I have a slide master with the desired formatting and layout. When I copy
and paste into the presentation sometimes it retains the formatting from
whatever the source document is. So I am looking for a way to select all the
slides and make things uniform or to force all slides to inherit from the
slide master.
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Not possible, I'm afraid. At least not in general sense.

It'd help if you can copy/paste text into text placeholders on the slides
though.
 
Can you please expand on that a little?

I am fine with pasting in such a way that it matches what I have in the
slide master.

This wont fix an existing pres but it can help me from this point on,

Thanks,
 
Can you please expand on that a little?
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Well, if you're copying text into the presentation, add a new text slide, click in
the "Click here to add text" placeholder and paste there rather than just pasting
onto the slide with nothing selected.

The text in the placeholder is under the control of the slide master where random
text blocks are not.

By the way, if you have a great deal of this to do, you may want to have a look at
our ShapeStyles demo ... http://www.pptools.com/shapestyles/

It lets you create styles that you can apply to shapes to format them any way you
like. Depending on your needs, it might help you whip this stuff into shape a whole
lot faster than manually formatting it, since a style can contain something like 50
formatting attributes that you can apply in one click.

The free demo lets you create and use five styles at one time; the full version is
pretty much unlimited.
 
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