Re: How do I set up a master slide with 2 text boxes?

Aha! Thanks for this info -- it makes your question much clearer. :-)

In most templates, there are two slide masters. One is a "regular" Slide Master, the other is a Title Master.

The Title Master applies to any slide that uses a Title Slide Layout. The other, the "regular" Slide Master, applies to slides based on any of the other layouts -- Title + Text, Title + Content, Title Only, etc. You can see the list of available slide layouts if you go to Format | Slide Layout.

I think you may just need to apply the Title Slide Layout to your slide so it picks up the Title Master specifications (and placeholders). So, select that slide in the slide thumbnail pane on the left of the screen, choose Format | Slide Layout, then click the Title Slide Layout in the pane on the right.

Is that what you're looking for?

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"Hammy" <Hammy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B709217F-5C90-4FCC-BC78-EECFFE97BD2B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I think I should have started my own strand. There is obviously something
I'm not understanding about slide/title masters. I'll start from the top.
My company has a PPT presentation that I made into a template by saving as
.pot. I opened a new blank presentation and did a right click on the
thumbnail slide (on the left) and selected "slide design." When the slide
design task pane opened, I found my .pot (the company branded template) and
selected "Apply to All Slides." It seemed to work, but I thought I'd see the
text box placeholders for the title page in the open presentation but they
did not appear. When I look at the slide master view, the text boxes are
there on the title page, but when I look at the normal view, they are not.
When I look at the subsequent page slide master, the text boxes are shown in
both slide master and normal views.

I think what you said before may apply--that this is normal. My thinking
was that the text boxes/graphics, etc that I see in the slide master view"
will be there in the normal view. Is that incorrect?

Thanks again for your help.

"Echo S" wrote:

What is it you're trying to do, Hammy? I don't quite understand what it is
you're asking. (That's why I kind of waffled in my initial response to you.)

For example, I don't know what this

> So in order to add my title as
> I want it in the presentation,

means.

And earlier, you said

>> > When I apply the template to a
>> > new presentation, the text boxes I had in the template design
>> > don't show up (only on the title master).

What textboxes did you have in the template design?

Remember, we can't see what you're doing there....

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"Hammy" <Hammy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3BAD539E-6A78-48F8-99DA-2681D2C53D9E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thank you...I'm sorry--but I want to clarify. So in order to add my > title
> as
> I want it in the presentation, I just have to add the text boxes > manually
> in
> the presentation? When I go to slide master view, it shows the
> placeholders
> for the title--why would it do that if I can't use them in the
> presentation?
> (I'm not challenging you---just curious).
>
> "Echo S" wrote:
>
>> You can't create your own placeholders in PPT 2003, so, based on your
>> description, it sounds as if your're seeing the normal behavior.
>>
>> -- >> Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
>> What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
>> Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
>> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html
>> PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com
>>
>> "Hammy" <Hammy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:05C025B0-05D5-4CE5-AD78-E11516B04A1C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > I'm not quite positive, but I think you answered the same question I
>> > have.
>> > I
>> > set up a slide design and made it a template. When I apply the
>> > template
>> > to a
>> > new presentation, the text boxes I had in the template design don't
>> > show
>> > up
>> > (only on the title master). They DO show up on the subsequent >> > slides.
>> >
>> > Is this normal in version 2003?
>> >
>> > "Echo S" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Only in PPT 2007.
>> >>
>> >> -- >> >> Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
>> >> What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
>> >> Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
>> >> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Maria" <Maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:3BABEAC4-5778-40C3-A6C8-7B6FC2AF5463@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > When Is et up a master slide and then go to the normal view and
>> >> > choose
>> >> > in
>> >> > the
>> >> > slide layout the slide with wo text boxes (or any other slide >> >> > that
>> >> > is
>> >> > not
>> >> > the
>> >> > title and text box) the predertemined instructions for font size
>> >> > and
>> >> > bullet
>> >> > indentation disappear the text box just has other instructions is
>> >> > there
>> >> > a
>> >> > way
>> >> > for that to not happen.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>


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