Document-Wide Formatting Changes

[Ryan Anderson]

We've recently changed our corporate look and feel, and we're in the process
of converting all of our old PPT presentations.

The conversion is fairly smooth, except that every slide has to have a
change in the main body's line spacing. We've been doing this slide by
slide, but I have to think there's a way to do it for the whole presentation.

Any ideas?

 

[Sonia]

It sounds like you aren't using a corporate wide template. Is that true? Or
have people just not used the Slide Layouts and placeholders?
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Ryan Anderson]

Hi Sonia,

Thanks for the quick reply. In the past, we weren't... and nobody really
knew how to use PowerPoint properly. The problem is that now we have dozens
of old training presentations that need to be revised. We have a template
now, but my problem is that I can't seem to get it to force the line spacing
when I import them, whereas I can with fonts, etc.

I don't think there's a command to do it, but if there's a better way to
import the old slides, so that the template does more of the work, I'd be
happy to hear it.

Cheers,

Ryan

 

[Sonia]

If the authors faithfully used placeholders and the line spacing is set in the
master, applying the template should change the line spacing in the
presentations. If it doesn't you might try re-applying the slide layout. If
they didn't use placeholders then there isn't a way to do it from the UI except
with the Format Painter, once you have one text box set the way you want. My
guess is that it could be done via VBA, but one of the VBA coders would have to
help us there.

 

[Ryan Anderson]

The Esc-C-X trick worked like a charm. The problem is that on the old
slides, there's just a random text box. If I reapply the formatting, it just
adds another box over top of it.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Ryan