Powerpoint as page layout

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Tom Slick

Hello out there,
I have a client asking for help on a poster project.
She's the coordinator for a huge varied organization whose
only common software is Powerpoint and Word.
She wants a template at 24 X 36 inches with placeholders
for text, easy, and 10 place holders for existing PP
slides.
She wants to embed 10 slides in a new slide. I told her to
save out her slides as .jpg or .tif, then place them as
pictures in her poster. But it's more complicated. She
wants her people to be able to click on each of the ten
boxes and have a specified slide appear, sized correctly
and consistently, so as to get a consistent look, no
matter who is working on it. It's similar to links in
Pagemaker, but I need some "power-user help.
Thanks
Tom
 
Tom,

I've never seen Page Maker, but...

First the ten slides. You could make a template that had ten slide masters
(for XP) and save it as a custom template:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00245.htm

That template could be the size in inches you require. And if you go to the
slide master, you could put the existing placeholders where you need them.
The client could apply the particular slide template to their current
presentation. But there is no opportunity to add your own placeholders.

Does that make sense?

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Glen Millar
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What about having them fill autoshapes with images of the slides, Tom?
That's kinda-sorta like Quark and Pagemaker and the "get picture" (and
fit to size) thing... They'd have to be on a "sample" slide, though, not
on a template. PPT just doesn't work like Pagemaker/Quark, sorry.

Glen's already explained about the text placeholders--can't add any more
of those.
 
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- Is there a way to insert a hyperlink into the Hand-out wizard that would
link back to the original slide?
- And also, a way to scan multiple (or all) PPT files within a
directory/sub-directories?
- And maybe (ok, so this is probably over the top) an 'add slide to
destination presentation file' function that would allow a user to click on
a slide (or range) from the 'thumbnails' and build a presentation? The
actual slide would need to be inserted, not just the jpg of it.

I think this would do what Tom is asking and would be a neat way to build
presentations from a "library" of previously scanned/stored slides.

The problem with the 'Insert Slides from files ...' function in PowerPoint,
is that you have to find the desired slides' source first. This would do
that.


Just an idea....
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First the ten slides. You could make a template that had ten slide masters
(for XP) and save it as a custom template:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00245.htm

That template could be the size in inches you require. And if you go to the
slide master, you could put the existing placeholders where you need them.
The client could apply the particular slide template to their current
presentation. But there is no opportunity to add your own placeholders.
Click to expand...

Or <whacks self AND Glenn on forehead> PPTMerge, with an extra step or two
(adding the names of the desired pictures to an Excel file before running
the merge).

http://www.pptools.com
 
Or said:
(adding the names of the desired pictures to an Excel file before running
the merge).
Click to expand...

On further examination ... no. It doesn't merge PPT files, just pictures
and text and sounds and movies and stuff.
 
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