Slides from outline, but keep PP formatting

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leftnotracks

When I insert slides fom a Word outline, the formatting (sort of) from
the Word file is used. I've gove to great effort to format the levels
in Powerpoint and I want to retain tat formatting. I tried recreting
the formatting in Word, but it's not the same. Colours get simplified
(a dark red comes through as just 255,0,0) and line spacing, paragraph
spacing, and bullets are not the same, even though the formatting
before import is he same in both files.

Is there a way to import the outline and ignore the formatting in Word?
 
If you format the levels and then save as > save as type "Design template
*.pot"
Send to Powerpoint from word and then apply this template to all slides
should do it.
 
Nope. Bold text is not bold, paragraph spacing and line spacing are
way off, and bullets don't show up.

Here's the issue:
For some reason, people want to use PP to print sales sheets for
products. I'd like to make them in, well, anything else, but in case
the salespeople need to edit them, we're using PP.

So I have hundreds of items, each on one page. I've made one page
(slide) just the way I want it, with the text formatted as I like. I
now want to make each item into a page with the formatting as in my
sample.

I have tried so many ways to copy formatting, but none work. The style
painter and Pick Up/Apply text Style tools (eyedroppers) ignore line
spacing, paragraph spacing, and bullets.

I thought if I formatted my outline levels on the Slide Master I could
import the text as an outline in Word. No dice, as I stated above.

Edit > Paste Special, then Unformatted text pastes the text is as
black 24 pt Arial plain, no matter the size, style, colour of the
selected text.

If there were custom Styles as in Word I'd be sitting pretty. If I
could paste unformatted text and have it adopt the style of the
selected text I could do it, but it would take longer (all that switch
to Word, Copy, switch to PP, select, Paste, repeat six times for each
item). If I could fully copy formatting and apply it elsewhere I could
to it, too.

So far as I can tell, the only way to get what I want is to manually
format each piece of text. Please tell me that this 20 year old
program is more sophisticated than that. Please!
 
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