Simulatenously editing multiple word art texts?

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I have a power point slide with 8 instances of a word art box that all say
the same thing. I need to change each of them several times to create
different pages for a client, but editing each and every single one for each
page is terribly time-consuming. Is there a way to link them all or
*something* that will allow me to make one change and have it update all 8
instances?
 
I don't suppose changing one, then doing a copy/paste to the other pages
would suffice? I know how to link (clone) objects as you describe (in other
graphic software) but not with powerpoint. If you have different
backgrounds for each ... a trick I use, is to copy/paste for when you change
the original ... then use the painter to copy the background to the changed
wordart. Good luck.

I have a power point slide with 8 instances of a word art box that all say
the same thing. I need to change each of them several times to create
different pages for a client, but editing each and every single one for each
page is terribly time-consuming. Is there a way to link them all or
*something* that will allow me to make one change and have it update all 8
instances?
 
Wendy645 said:
I have a power point slide with 8 instances of a word art box that all say
the same thing. I need to change each of them several times to create
different pages for a client, but editing each and every single one for each
page is terribly time-consuming. Is there a way to link them all or
*something* that will allow me to make one change and have it update all 8
instances?
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You could save the word art as a graphic (say a PNG image) then use Insert,
Picture, From File to insert the graphic into PPT; instead of clicking the
Insert button, click the down-arrow to the right and choose Link from the popup
menu that appears.

The graphic will now be linked to the external file; when you update the file
and reopen the PPT, the instances of it IN the PPT file will update.

If you have to move the file to another computer, PPT will scratch your eyes
out. Well, ok, it won't. But it'll scratch the link out and mash it flat.
Kinda rude that way.

Use the free FixLinks demo at http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/ to make the
links pathless; then, so long as the images and PPT stay together in the same
folder, no matter what folder or where, you should be good to go
 
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