Re: Master slide

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You're exactly right in your description of how this all works.

You're also right that there's not a "reset" option in the Master view.

The "reset," as you know, resets a slide to its master's specifications. But it's not available for the slide masters, because, I guess, there's no master to reset the master to.

I would guess this was an oversight by the development team, but it may have been "by design" -- that is, for a reason. One workaround, though, is to insert a new slide master and move (drag) the layouts up into the layout list for the original master. Alternatively, insert a new master, then use the format painter to apply formatting quickly -- to various objects and to the slide in general. (You can format paint from one slide master thumbnail to another to get some of the basics, then you have to do it to specific objects to get the specifics.)

I know this isn't ideal. I'll report your "missing reset button in slide master view" issue, because I definitely agree this should be available.

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"KC" <kc12345@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OSQhyP51IHA.5664@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Good point, and good URL, but I did some work to further clarify my problem description.

Just a few steps will demo the issue of layouts following master. (this is PP 2007, but it works similarly in 2003 I think)

1- Create a new presentation
2- View the Slide Master
3- Select the top-level master slide
4- Reposition or Resize the placeholder for the body text. Note (in the slide pane) that several individual slide layouts immediately mirror the change made to the body-text placeholder in the top-level master.

NOW, let's *break* one of those individual slide layouts which are subserviant to the top-level master:

5- Select any of the affected individual slide layouts whose placeholder follows the top-level master
6 - Resize or reposition the placeholder in that individual slide layout.
7 - Now, resizing or repositioning the top-level slide master body-text placeholder will have no effect on the placeholder modified in step 6.

So far, this is all as it should be and exactly mirrors the way powerpoint slides follow layouts. Modifications to a placeholder in an individual slide (not it's master or layout), will retain those modifications, even if the associated layout or master is changed. Put another way, author modifications to a slide layout are retained even if the master is modified.

Stay with the PP slide for a moment, if I want to restore the individual slide to follow changes to the slide master (or layout), there is a *Reset* button on the PP2007 ribbon. Clicking this button removes the authors modifications to the slide placeholders so the slide will follow the master / layout once again.

The problem is that I can find no similar *Reset* for layouts in the View Master once a modification to a layout's placeholder is made. There's got to be a *Reset* so the layout will follow the master, but I can't find it.



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