Removing overrides to slide formats on merged presentation

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I recently acquired nearly 300 slides in a presentation that came from many
sources originally, but when they were merged their original formats either
did not or were not copied over into the merged file. The result is a
formatting nightmare. Many of the slides have bits and pieces of almost every
slide with formatting overrides to the design template. I would like to
remove all of the overrides and apply a design template that will impose some
order on this unwieldly presentation. Is there any way to do this, either
within PowerPoint or some utility?
 
I'd make a new presentation with the desing that I wanted, then Insert,
Slides from File, and uncheck keep source formatting. This should apply your
new desing to all the slides.

You'll still have to deal with redoing the layouts, though, either
individually or in bulk.
 
Diana Wilkinson said:
I recently acquired nearly 300 slides in a presentation that came from many
sources originally, but when they were merged their original formats either
did not or were not copied over into the merged file. The result is a
formatting nightmare. Many of the slides have bits and pieces of almost every
slide with formatting overrides to the design template. I would like to
remove all of the overrides and apply a design template that will impose some
order on this unwieldly presentation. Is there any way to do this, either
within PowerPoint or some utility?
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Re-applying the slide layout will often override a lot of this "local"
formatting.

You can do that manually or try something like this little macro:

Sub ReapplyLayouts()
Dim oSl as Slide
For Each oSl in ActivePresentation.Slides
oSl.Layout = oSl.Layout
Next
End Sub

If it doesn't seem to "take" the first time, try running it again a time or two.
Sometimes PPT needs an extra whack upside the head to get the idea: YES.
Remove the local formatting. Really. I mean it.

Not a VBA/Macro user? Have a look here for detailed instrux:

How do I use VBA code in PowerPoint?
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00033.htm
 
Hi Diana

In addition to the advice already given, you may want to look at format ->
replace fonts which will show you all the fonts used and allow you to replace
them. Not perfect (it doesn't allow you to control point size) but a starting
point.

Lucy
--
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

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