Detaching slide from master but keep formatting.

[Dan (gicks2000)]

I am really desparate to figure this out: I need a way to save a
presentation, that has a master slide denoting the layout of all the slides,
to individual slides as a separate presentation for each. The catch is that
the individual slides need to not be dependant on a master, they must stand
alone (they can have a master, they just can't be relying on it. This is
because later I will need to reassemble them into a new single presentation
that may have slides originating from presentations with different masters.
This would be ok if everyone has Office 2002+, but it needs to be at least
2000 compatable. If anyone could help, I would be sooooo greatful. Thanks
preemptively,

Dan

 

[Bill Dilworth]

All slides use a master slide, no matter what. You can not remove a slide
from all masters, just reassign them. With the reassignment comes a
re-building that is likely to change the format of the slide.

The problem arises while trying to keep it editable from PPT 2000. 2002 and
2003 users can use and edit multiple masters with no problem, but 2000 users
can only view not edit them. So, the final output presentation will not be
fully changeable by the folks with 2000. If you look further back, then
people with older versions than 2000 may not even be able to correctly view
it.

Can you create a presentation file system instead of a single file? If you
create a MasterControl presentation that links together the pieces of
presentations from the various sources in a single folder (without actually
incorporating them into a common file), then all users will continue to be
able to edit all the pieces. Since each presentation will contain its own
master, there should be little difficulty. Is this along the lines of
something that would work?

See Multiple Masters links:
http://www.echosvoice.com/multipletemplates.htm


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[Echo S]

I am really desparate to figure this out: I need a way to save a
presentation, that has a master slide denoting the layout of all the
slides, to individual slides as a separate presentation for each.
The catch is that the individual slides need to not be dependant on a
master, they must stand alone (they can have a master, they just
can't be relying on it. This is because later I will need to
reassemble them into a new single presentation that may have slides
originating from presentations with different masters. This would be
ok if everyone has Office 2002+, but it needs to be at least 2000
compatable. If anyone could help, I would be sooooo greatful.
Thanks preemptively,

When you assemble (usually copy/paste) slides into another presentation
file, the first slides take on the template of the presentation they're
being pasted into. (As you're probably aware, 2002/2003 can overcome this by
using multiple masters and "keep source formatting," but this isn't an
option in PPT 2000.)

The pasted slides will also take on the master slide attributes in the
presentation they're being pasted into.

Occasionally a slide won't really update and take on the new master
attributes. This is usually because the master slide layout has been
overridden somehow -- perhaps the font size has been made smaller or larger,
the title font color has changed, something of that nature.

When that happens, you have to reapply the slide master after the slide's
been pasted into the new presentation. That generally will cause the new
master to "take."

The issue with the masters then is creating the initial slides without
making any formatting overrides to them. Slap the stuff on the slide in the
placeholders, and the slide will behave properly when pasted into a new
presentation. This is, of course, easier said than done.

The other issue becomes one of color schemes. If you truly want the slides
to take on the new attributes, then whoever creates them will have to be
diligent in his/her use of colors. Again, this is easier said than done. See
http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm for more than you wanted to know
on this subject.

You could experiment with using multiple masters to add some flexibility to
the masters. Multiple masters should at least show up in PPT 2000, although
users there don't have the ability to create or edit additional masters.
However, if you're assembling presentations into a new presentation in 2000,
I'm thinking that probably won't work. If you were opening a presentation
with existing multiple masters and deleting slides from it in 2000, it
probably would.