Two dozen masters have appeared in a PPT 2003 File

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Lisa Bucki

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2. It was saved as backwards compatible, they can open it, but a couple of
slide masters blow out into dozens of them in 2003.

Been there, done both!
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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
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Glen (or anyone else who has any ideas),
I have a client who seems to have done exactly what you mention above. I
provided dozens of presentations created in PowerPoint 2003, and when a
handful of them came back to me for edits, suddenly there are dozens of
masters.

Is there a fix for this? I've searched Knowledge Base, and don't seem to be
finding anything.

TIA for the help,
Lisa Bucki
 
Lisa Bucki said:
quoted from anther thread:



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Glen (or anyone else who has any ideas),
I have a client who seems to have done exactly what you mention above. I
provided dozens of presentations created in PowerPoint 2003, and when a
handful of them came back to me for edits, suddenly there are dozens of
masters.

Is there a fix for this? I've searched Knowledge Base, and don't seem to
be
finding anything.
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I don't think there's any way to prevent this. PPT 2007 and 2003/prior
handle masters so very differently...in PPT 2007, the master is being
expanded to a bunch of individual layouts -- a section slide, a
title+content slide, a blank slide, a title only slide, title + 2 content,
etc.

Maybe if you ask the client to use Office Button | Save As and save as
97-2003 format instead of just saving (which saves as 2007 format by
default), that will help. (I'm pretty sure that will prevent the problem you
describe.) They can also set the default save format in Office Button | PPT
Options | Save. They would chang e"safe files in this format" from
PowerPoint Presentation to PowerPoint Presentation 97-2003.
 
Echo S said:
Lisa Bucki said:
quoted from anther thread:



<snip>

Glen (or anyone else who has any ideas),
I have a client who seems to have done exactly what you mention above. I
provided dozens of presentations created in PowerPoint 2003, and when a
handful of them came back to me for edits, suddenly there are dozens of
masters.

Is there a fix for this? I've searched Knowledge Base, and don't seem to
be
finding anything.
Click to expand...

I don't think there's any way to prevent this. PPT 2007 and 2003/prior
handle masters so very differently...in PPT 2007, the master is being
expanded to a bunch of individual layouts -- a section slide, a
title+content slide, a blank slide, a title only slide, title + 2 content,
etc.

Maybe if you ask the client to use Office Button | Save As and save as
97-2003 format instead of just saving (which saves as 2007 format by
default), that will help. (I'm pretty sure that will prevent the problem
you describe.) They can also set the default save format in Office Button
| PPT Options | Save. They would chang e"safe files in this format" from
PowerPoint Presentation to PowerPoint Presentation 97-2003.

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What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx
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Thanks for the response! The client *did* save to 97-2003 format from 2007,
and it happened anyway. Looks like we'll have to delete those masters
manually.

Lisa
 
Lisa Bucki said:
Thanks for the response! The client *did* save to 97-2003 format from
2007, and it happened anyway. Looks like we'll have to delete those
masters manually.
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Hm. It didn't happen here when I tried it. Maybe the client had already
saved as 2007 before saving as 97-2003?
 
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