Downloaded template not showing up in Powerpoint

[pc168]

I downloaded a few templates from Microsoft web. Some of them show up in my
design templates under slide desiign. But one particular one: "global" does
not show up, no matter how many times I downloaded. I wonder if PowerPoint
2003 can only allow limited number of templates. But I cannot find out how
to delete some templates to make room. Can anybody tell me why I cannot get
this template?

Thanks,

 

[Johnbes]

Hi, Can you describe in a little more detail how you downloaded the
templates? Is it through Office 2003 search or directly from
Office.Microsoft.com? Are your prompted to Save the template when
downloading or do they open up directly in PPT? Any other alerts appear?

Thanks,
John

 

[pc168]

In powerpoint 2003, when you open up "design template pane, the last one was
"download templates on Microsoft office online". Click on it, bring me to
the site. I choose a template and downloaded. It opened an new PPt with
just the template. I closesd my original slide and this new ppt. Most of my
downloads apprear but not the one I really wanted. I thought it was because
I chose it from 2000 directory. This morning, I downloaded another one, it
did not show up either.

Now I suspect that ppt run out of memory to add more templates. But I could
not find a way to delete some that I don't really care about to make room for
the new ones.

 

[Johnbes]

You may be trying to download a 2007 only template. Look on the download
page for your template, there's a Version field just above the rating
section, let me know what Office Version is listed.

Thanks,
John

 

[pc168]

PowerPoint 97 or later

--
pc

You may be trying to download a 2007 only template. Look on the download
page for your template, there's a Version field just above the rating
section, let me know what Office Version is listed.

Thanks,
John

 

[Johnbes]

Interesting, please send the link of any templates you can't download. Also,
try closing all your IE windows and downloading the template(s) again from a
new IE window. If that doesn't do it, clear your cookies first, close your
IE Windows and retry again in a new IE window. We'll get to the bottom of
this, thanks for your help and patience figuring it out!

 

[pc168]

Here is the link:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC010690261033.aspx?CategoryID=CT101430391033&av=ZPP000

In fact, I have downloaded this template at least 10 times. The download
created a blank presentation in PPt with the design template applied to it.
The help menu said:" To apply the downloaded design template to an existing
presentation, quit and restart PowerPoint and then open the presentation. The
new design template will appear in the Slide Design task pane, and when you
click the preview image, the template will be applied to the presentation."

Except after I did exact as it instructed, when I open my existing
presentation, the new design template is nowhere to be found. I have
rebooted the system and it did not do any good.

I cannot find the path where the design template is stored. I went to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\Presentation Designs, deleted a
whole bunch of design templates. But this is not the path that PPT use to
get templates. Since the ppt showed a lot more design templates than those
in that folder. But I cannot find other folder that ppt get the template
from.

 

[Echo S]

In my experience, you often must download the file and then use Save As in
PPT to save the file to the harddrive. (You'll need to change the "save as
type" to "template *.POT." If you don't do this, you'll save a PPT file, and
that won't ever show up in the Design pane.)

After you use the template a few times (click the Browse button at the
bottom of the Slide Design pane to access it), it should start showing up in
the Slide Design pane.

It's a tedious way to go about it. Personally, I think this should happen
automatically.

 

[pc168]

Thank you for the tips. Actually, the first few of the downloads did work
automatically as the instruction said. But later it did not work again.
There were about 30 design templates showed up. That was why I thought maybe
there is a limit on how many template the PPT can load.

Can somebody told me where the templates are stored. I searched and only
found one directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\Presentation
Designs has seme of the templates. But not all of them.
--
pc

In my experience, you often must download the file and then use Save As in
PPT to save the file to the harddrive. (You'll need to change the "save as
type" to "template *.POT." If you don't do this, you'll save a PPT file, and
that won't ever show up in the Design pane.)

After you use the template a few times (click the Browse button at the
bottom of the Slide Design pane to access it), it should start showing up in
the Slide Design pane.

It's a tedious way to go about it. Personally, I think this should happen
automatically.

--
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/

 

[Echo S]

There's not a limit that I'm aware of -- at least I've never heard one
mentioned. I have heard (and witnessed) templates not showing up in the
Design pane, though, even when I've only added one or two. Other times it
works fine.

For locating PPT templates, see
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/tutorials.htm -- you want to look
under PowerPoint Basics, "PowerPont - Locating and Storing Your Templates"
(either PPT 97-2002 or 2003, whichever is appropriate).

Basically, look in the folder you mentioned, and then also look in
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

That's my guess as to where they'd end up. And you know, that might be why
they're not showing up in the Design pane. Try copying them from the Docs
and Settings folder to the Program Files folder with the others and see if
that fixes the problem.

--
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/

Thank you for the tips. Actually, the first few of the downloads did work
automatically as the instruction said. But later it did not work again.
There were about 30 design templates showed up. That was why I thought
maybe
there is a limit on how many template the PPT can load.

Can somebody told me where the templates are stored. I searched and only
found one directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\Presentation
Designs has seme of the templates. But not all of them.
--
pc

In my experience, you often must download the file and then use Save As
in
PPT to save the file to the harddrive. (You'll need to change the "save
as
type" to "template *.POT." If you don't do this, you'll save a PPT file,
and
that won't ever show up in the Design pane.)

After you use the template a few times (click the Browse button at the
bottom of the Slide Design pane to access it), it should start showing up
in
the Slide Design pane.

It's a tedious way to go about it. Personally, I think this should happen
automatically.

--
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/

In powerpoint 2003, when you open up "design template pane, the last
one
was
"download templates on Microsoft office online". Click on it, bring me
to
the site. I choose a template and downloaded. It opened an new PPt
with
just the template. I closesd my original slide and this new ppt. Most
of
my
downloads apprear but not the one I really wanted. I thought it was
because
I chose it from 2000 directory. This morning, I downloaded another
one,
it
did not show up either.

Now I suspect that ppt run out of memory to add more templates. But I
could
not find a way to delete some that I don't really care about to make
room
for
the new ones.
--
pc


:

Hi, Can you describe in a little more detail how you downloaded the
templates? Is it through Office 2003 search or directly from
Office.Microsoft.com? Are your prompted to Save the template when
downloading or do they open up directly in PPT? Any other alerts
appear?

Thanks,
John

:

I downloaded a few templates from Microsoft web. Some of them show
up
in my
design templates under slide desiign. But one particular one:
"global"
does
not show up, no matter how many times I downloaded. I wonder if
PowerPoint
2003 can only allow limited number of templates. But I cannot find
out
how
to delete some templates to make room. Can anybody tell me why I
cannot get
this template?

Thanks,

 

[Johnbes]

In my research I could not find a limit either. The default save location
for the downloaded design tempaltes should be your User Template folder,
usually at C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\. You can check your User Template llocation with
the following procedure...
1. Click on the Word Options button at the bottom of the File Menu.
2. Select "Advanced" in the left nav, scroll to the end of the "Advanced"
dialog and click on the "File Locations" button.
3. Double click on either the "User" or "Workgroup Template" settings.
4. This will bring up a directory dialog, now click on the "Look In"
dropdown to see the full hierarchical path.


Check the registry value

There's not a limit that I'm aware of -- at least I've never heard one
mentioned. I have heard (and witnessed) templates not showing up in the
Design pane, though, even when I've only added one or two. Other times it
works fine.

For locating PPT templates, see
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/tutorials.htm -- you want to look
under PowerPoint Basics, "PowerPont - Locating and Storing Your Templates"
(either PPT 97-2002 or 2003, whichever is appropriate).

Basically, look in the folder you mentioned, and then also look in
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

That's my guess as to where they'd end up. And you know, that might be why
they're not showing up in the Design pane. Try copying them from the Docs
and Settings folder to the Program Files folder with the others and see if
that fixes the problem.

--
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/

Thank you for the tips. Actually, the first few of the downloads did work
automatically as the instruction said. But later it did not work again.
There were about 30 design templates showed up. That was why I thought
maybe
there is a limit on how many template the PPT can load.

Can somebody told me where the templates are stored. I searched and only
found one directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\Presentation
Designs has seme of the templates. But not all of them.
--
pc

In my experience, you often must download the file and then use Save As
in
PPT to save the file to the harddrive. (You'll need to change the "save
as
type" to "template *.POT." If you don't do this, you'll save a PPT file,
and
that won't ever show up in the Design pane.)

After you use the template a few times (click the Browse button at the
bottom of the Slide Design pane to access it), it should start showing up
in
the Slide Design pane.

It's a tedious way to go about it. Personally, I think this should happen
automatically.

--
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/


In powerpoint 2003, when you open up "design template pane, the last
one
was
"download templates on Microsoft office online". Click on it, bring me
to
the site. I choose a template and downloaded. It opened an new PPt
with
just the template. I closesd my original slide and this new ppt. Most
of
my
downloads apprear but not the one I really wanted. I thought it was
because
I chose it from 2000 directory. This morning, I downloaded another
one,
it
did not show up either.

Now I suspect that ppt run out of memory to add more templates. But I
could
not find a way to delete some that I don't really care about to make
room
for
the new ones.
--
pc


:

Hi, Can you describe in a little more detail how you downloaded the
templates? Is it through Office 2003 search or directly from
Office.Microsoft.com? Are your prompted to Save the template when
downloading or do they open up directly in PPT? Any other alerts
appear?

Thanks,
John

:

I downloaded a few templates from Microsoft web. Some of them show
up
in my
design templates under slide desiign. But one particular one:
"global"
does
not show up, no matter how many times I downloaded. I wonder if
PowerPoint
2003 can only allow limited number of templates. But I cannot find
out
how
to delete some templates to make room. Can anybody tell me why I
cannot get
this template?

Thanks,

 

[Echo S]

So you're saying you can check the file locations in Word to see where your
PowerPoint templates are saved to by default when downloaded?

Also, please note that this user is asking about PowerPoint 2003, not 2007.

Do you know why downloaded PowerPoint templates sometimes don't show up in
the Slide Design task pane in PowerPoint 2003?

--
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/

In my research I could not find a limit either. The default save location
for the downloaded design tempaltes should be your User Template folder,
usually at C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\. You can check your User Template llocation
with
the following procedure...
1. Click on the Word Options button at the bottom of the File Menu.
2. Select "Advanced" in the left nav, scroll to the end of the "Advanced"
dialog and click on the "File Locations" button.
3. Double click on either the "User" or "Workgroup Template" settings.
4. This will bring up a directory dialog, now click on the "Look In"
dropdown to see the full hierarchical path.


Check the registry value

There's not a limit that I'm aware of -- at least I've never heard one
mentioned. I have heard (and witnessed) templates not showing up in the
Design pane, though, even when I've only added one or two. Other times it
works fine.

For locating PPT templates, see
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/tutorials.htm -- you want to look
under PowerPoint Basics, "PowerPont - Locating and Storing Your
Templates"
(either PPT 97-2002 or 2003, whichever is appropriate).

Basically, look in the folder you mentioned, and then also look in
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

That's my guess as to where they'd end up. And you know, that might be
why
they're not showing up in the Design pane. Try copying them from the Docs
and Settings folder to the Program Files folder with the others and see
if
that fixes the problem.

--
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/

Thank you for the tips. Actually, the first few of the downloads did
work
automatically as the instruction said. But later it did not work
again.
There were about 30 design templates showed up. That was why I thought
maybe
there is a limit on how many template the PPT can load.

Can somebody told me where the templates are stored. I searched and
only
found one directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\Presentation
Designs has seme of the templates. But not all of them.
--
pc


:

In my experience, you often must download the file and then use Save
As
in
PPT to save the file to the harddrive. (You'll need to change the
"save
as
type" to "template *.POT." If you don't do this, you'll save a PPT
file,
and
that won't ever show up in the Design pane.)

After you use the template a few times (click the Browse button at the
bottom of the Slide Design pane to access it), it should start showing
up
in
the Slide Design pane.

It's a tedious way to go about it. Personally, I think this should
happen
automatically.

--
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/


In powerpoint 2003, when you open up "design template pane, the last
one
was
"download templates on Microsoft office online". Click on it, bring
me
to
the site. I choose a template and downloaded. It opened an new PPt
with
just the template. I closesd my original slide and this new ppt.
Most
of
my
downloads apprear but not the one I really wanted. I thought it was
because
I chose it from 2000 directory. This morning, I downloaded another
one,
it
did not show up either.

Now I suspect that ppt run out of memory to add more templates. But
I
could
not find a way to delete some that I don't really care about to make
room
for
the new ones.
--
pc


:

Hi, Can you describe in a little more detail how you downloaded
the
templates? Is it through Office 2003 search or directly from
Office.Microsoft.com? Are your prompted to Save the template when
downloading or do they open up directly in PPT? Any other alerts
appear?

Thanks,
John

:

I downloaded a few templates from Microsoft web. Some of them
show
up
in my
design templates under slide desiign. But one particular one:
"global"
does
not show up, no matter how many times I downloaded. I wonder if
PowerPoint
2003 can only allow limited number of templates. But I cannot
find
out
how
to delete some templates to make room. Can anybody tell me why I
cannot get
this template?

Thanks,

 

[Johnbes]

Hi Echo, Yes this information is applicable to 2003 and the User Template
location is shared by the Office applications. In regards to the default
save location of the Design Templates, when the template is automatically
downloaded to the Client, the Design Template it is supposed to be saved to
the User Template location .

I've been working on this issue and have been able to intermittently
reproduce it today. I'll continue to research and get back to the thread
tomorrow.

Thanks,
John

So you're saying you can check the file locations in Word to see where your
PowerPoint templates are saved to by default when downloaded?

Also, please note that this user is asking about PowerPoint 2003, not 2007.

Do you know why downloaded PowerPoint templates sometimes don't show up in
the Slide Design task pane in PowerPoint 2003?

--
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/

In my research I could not find a limit either. The default save location
for the downloaded design tempaltes should be your User Template folder,
usually at C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\. You can check your User Template llocation
with
the following procedure...
1. Click on the Word Options button at the bottom of the File Menu.
2. Select "Advanced" in the left nav, scroll to the end of the "Advanced"
dialog and click on the "File Locations" button.
3. Double click on either the "User" or "Workgroup Template" settings.
4. This will bring up a directory dialog, now click on the "Look In"
dropdown to see the full hierarchical path.


Check the registry value

There's not a limit that I'm aware of -- at least I've never heard one
mentioned. I have heard (and witnessed) templates not showing up in the
Design pane, though, even when I've only added one or two. Other times it
works fine.

For locating PPT templates, see
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/tutorials.htm -- you want to look
under PowerPoint Basics, "PowerPont - Locating and Storing Your
Templates"
(either PPT 97-2002 or 2003, whichever is appropriate).

Basically, look in the folder you mentioned, and then also look in
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

That's my guess as to where they'd end up. And you know, that might be
why
they're not showing up in the Design pane. Try copying them from the Docs
and Settings folder to the Program Files folder with the others and see
if
that fixes the problem.

--
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/


Thank you for the tips. Actually, the first few of the downloads did
work
automatically as the instruction said. But later it did not work
again.
There were about 30 design templates showed up. That was why I thought
maybe
there is a limit on how many template the PPT can load.

Can somebody told me where the templates are stored. I searched and
only
found one directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\Presentation
Designs has seme of the templates. But not all of them.
--
pc


:

In my experience, you often must download the file and then use Save
As
in
PPT to save the file to the harddrive. (You'll need to change the
"save
as
type" to "template *.POT." If you don't do this, you'll save a PPT
file,
and
that won't ever show up in the Design pane.)

After you use the template a few times (click the Browse button at the
bottom of the Slide Design pane to access it), it should start showing
up
in
the Slide Design pane.

It's a tedious way to go about it. Personally, I think this should
happen
automatically.

--
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/


In powerpoint 2003, when you open up "design template pane, the last
one
was
"download templates on Microsoft office online". Click on it, bring
me
to
the site. I choose a template and downloaded. It opened an new PPt
with
just the template. I closesd my original slide and this new ppt.
Most
of
my
downloads apprear but not the one I really wanted. I thought it was
because
I chose it from 2000 directory. This morning, I downloaded another
one,
it
did not show up either.

Now I suspect that ppt run out of memory to add more templates. But
I
could
not find a way to delete some that I don't really care about to make
room
for
the new ones.
--
pc


:

Hi, Can you describe in a little more detail how you downloaded
the
templates? Is it through Office 2003 search or directly from
Office.Microsoft.com? Are your prompted to Save the template when
downloading or do they open up directly in PPT? Any other alerts
appear?

Thanks,
John

:

I downloaded a few templates from Microsoft web. Some of them
show
up
in my
design templates under slide desiign. But one particular one:
"global"
does
not show up, no matter how many times I downloaded. I wonder if
PowerPoint
2003 can only allow limited number of templates. But I cannot
find
out
how
to delete some templates to make room. Can anybody tell me why I
cannot get
this template?

Thanks,

 

[Echo S]

Thanks for the clarification, John. And thanks for looking into this. It's
one of those really annoying things that's hard to repro, and so it's hard
to resolve! I'm glad to know you've been able to reproduce it at least
intermittently.

--
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/

Hi Echo, Yes this information is applicable to 2003 and the User Template
location is shared by the Office applications. In regards to the default
save location of the Design Templates, when the template is automatically
downloaded to the Client, the Design Template it is supposed to be saved
to
the User Template location .

I've been working on this issue and have been able to intermittently
reproduce it today. I'll continue to research and get back to the thread
tomorrow.

Thanks,
John

So you're saying you can check the file locations in Word to see where
your
PowerPoint templates are saved to by default when downloaded?

Also, please note that this user is asking about PowerPoint 2003, not
2007.

Do you know why downloaded PowerPoint templates sometimes don't show up
in
the Slide Design task pane in PowerPoint 2003?

--
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/


"(e-mail address removed)" <[email protected]>
wrote in message

In my research I could not find a limit either. The default save
location
for the downloaded design tempaltes should be your User Template
folder,
usually at C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\. You can check your User Template llocation
with
the following procedure...
1. Click on the Word Options button at the bottom of the File Menu.
2. Select "Advanced" in the left nav, scroll to the end of the
"Advanced"
dialog and click on the "File Locations" button.
3. Double click on either the "User" or "Workgroup Template" settings.
4. This will bring up a directory dialog, now click on the "Look In"
dropdown to see the full hierarchical path.


Check the registry value

:

There's not a limit that I'm aware of -- at least I've never heard one
mentioned. I have heard (and witnessed) templates not showing up in
the
Design pane, though, even when I've only added one or two. Other times
it
works fine.

For locating PPT templates, see
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/tutorials.htm -- you want to
look
under PowerPoint Basics, "PowerPont - Locating and Storing Your
Templates"
(either PPT 97-2002 or 2003, whichever is appropriate).

Basically, look in the folder you mentioned, and then also look in
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates

That's my guess as to where they'd end up. And you know, that might be
why
they're not showing up in the Design pane. Try copying them from the
Docs
and Settings folder to the Program Files folder with the others and
see
if
that fixes the problem.

--
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/


Thank you for the tips. Actually, the first few of the downloads
did
work
automatically as the instruction said. But later it did not work
again.
There were about 30 design templates showed up. That was why I
thought
maybe
there is a limit on how many template the PPT can load.

Can somebody told me where the templates are stored. I searched and
only
found one directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\Presentation
Designs has seme of the templates. But not all of them.
--
pc


:

In my experience, you often must download the file and then use
Save
As
in
PPT to save the file to the harddrive. (You'll need to change the
"save
as
type" to "template *.POT." If you don't do this, you'll save a PPT
file,
and
that won't ever show up in the Design pane.)

After you use the template a few times (click the Browse button at
the
bottom of the Slide Design pane to access it), it should start
showing
up
in
the Slide Design pane.

It's a tedious way to go about it. Personally, I think this should
happen
automatically.

--
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/


In powerpoint 2003, when you open up "design template pane, the
last
one
was
"download templates on Microsoft office online". Click on it,
bring
me
to
the site. I choose a template and downloaded. It opened an new
PPt
with
just the template. I closesd my original slide and this new ppt.
Most
of
my
downloads apprear but not the one I really wanted. I thought it
was
because
I chose it from 2000 directory. This morning, I downloaded
another
one,
it
did not show up either.

Now I suspect that ppt run out of memory to add more templates.
But
I
could
not find a way to delete some that I don't really care about to
make
room
for
the new ones.
--
pc


:

Hi, Can you describe in a little more detail how you downloaded
the
templates? Is it through Office 2003 search or directly from
Office.Microsoft.com? Are your prompted to Save the template
when
downloading or do they open up directly in PPT? Any other
alerts
appear?

Thanks,
John

:

I downloaded a few templates from Microsoft web. Some of them
show
up
in my
design templates under slide desiign. But one particular one:
"global"
does
not show up, no matter how many times I downloaded. I wonder
if
PowerPoint
2003 can only allow limited number of templates. But I cannot
find
out
how
to delete some templates to make room. Can anybody tell me
why I
cannot get
this template?

Thanks,

 

[bhanik]

Yeah I am too facing the same problem...also In my case I am not able to find
the word options button at all in the file menu

Thanks for the clarification, John. And thanks for looking into this. It's
one of those really annoying things that's hard to repro, and so it's hard
to resolve! I'm glad to know you've been able to reproduce it at least
intermittently.

--
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/

Hi Echo, Yes this information is applicable to 2003 and the User Template
location is shared by the Office applications. In regards to the default
save location of the Design Templates, when the template is automatically
downloaded to the Client, the Design Template it is supposed to be saved
to
the User Template location .

I've been working on this issue and have been able to intermittently
reproduce it today. I'll continue to research and get back to the thread
tomorrow.

Thanks,
John

So you're saying you can check the file locations in Word to see where
your
PowerPoint templates are saved to by default when downloaded?

Also, please note that this user is asking about PowerPoint 2003, not
2007.

Do you know why downloaded PowerPoint templates sometimes don't show up
in
the Slide Design task pane in PowerPoint 2003?

--
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/


"(e-mail address removed)" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
In my research I could not find a limit either. The default save
location
for the downloaded design tempaltes should be your User Template
folder,
usually at C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\. You can check your User Template llocation
with
the following procedure...
1. Click on the Word Options button at the bottom of the File Menu.
2. Select "Advanced" in the left nav, scroll to the end of the
"Advanced"
dialog and click on the "File Locations" button.
3. Double click on either the "User" or "Workgroup Template" settings.
4. This will bring up a directory dialog, now click on the "Look In"
dropdown to see the full hierarchical path.


Check the registry value

:

There's not a limit that I'm aware of -- at least I've never heard one
mentioned. I have heard (and witnessed) templates not showing up in
the
Design pane, though, even when I've only added one or two. Other times
it
works fine.

For locating PPT templates, see
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/tutorials.htm -- you want to
look
under PowerPoint Basics, "PowerPont - Locating and Storing Your
Templates"
(either PPT 97-2002 or 2003, whichever is appropriate).

Basically, look in the folder you mentioned, and then also look in
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates

That's my guess as to where they'd end up. And you know, that might be
why
they're not showing up in the Design pane. Try copying them from the
Docs
and Settings folder to the Program Files folder with the others and
see
if
that fixes the problem.

--
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/


Thank you for the tips. Actually, the first few of the downloads
did
work
automatically as the instruction said. But later it did not work
again.
There were about 30 design templates showed up. That was why I
thought
maybe
there is a limit on how many template the PPT can load.

Can somebody told me where the templates are stored. I searched and
only
found one directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\Presentation
Designs has seme of the templates. But not all of them.
--
pc


:

In my experience, you often must download the file and then use
Save
As
in
PPT to save the file to the harddrive. (You'll need to change the
"save
as
type" to "template *.POT." If you don't do this, you'll save a PPT
file,
and
that won't ever show up in the Design pane.)

After you use the template a few times (click the Browse button at
the
bottom of the Slide Design pane to access it), it should start
showing
up
in
the Slide Design pane.

It's a tedious way to go about it. Personally, I think this should
happen
automatically.

--
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/


In powerpoint 2003, when you open up "design template pane, the
last
one
was
"download templates on Microsoft office online". Click on it,
bring
me
to
the site. I choose a template and downloaded. It opened an new
PPt
with
just the template. I closesd my original slide and this new ppt.
Most
of
my
downloads apprear but not the one I really wanted. I thought it
was
because
I chose it from 2000 directory. This morning, I downloaded
another
one,
it
did not show up either.

Now I suspect that ppt run out of memory to add more templates.
But
I
could
not find a way to delete some that I don't really care about to
make
room
for
the new ones.
--
pc


:

Hi, Can you describe in a little more detail how you downloaded
the
templates? Is it through Office 2003 search or directly from
Office.Microsoft.com? Are your prompted to Save the template
when
downloading or do they open up directly in PPT? Any other
alerts
appear?

Thanks,
John

:

I downloaded a few templates from Microsoft web. Some of them
show
up
in my
design templates under slide desiign. But one particular one:
"global"
does
not show up, no matter how many times I downloaded. I wonder
if
PowerPoint
2003 can only allow limited number of templates. But I cannot
find
out
how
to delete some templates to make room. Can anybody tell me
why I
cannot get
this template?

Thanks,

 

[Echo S]

In Word 2003, the options are in Tools | Options | File Locations.

--
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/

Yeah I am too facing the same problem...also In my case I am not able to
find
the word options button at all in the file menu

Thanks for the clarification, John. And thanks for looking into this.
It's
one of those really annoying things that's hard to repro, and so it's
hard
to resolve! I'm glad to know you've been able to reproduce it at least
intermittently.

--
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/

"(e-mail address removed)" <[email protected]>
wrote in message

Hi Echo, Yes this information is applicable to 2003 and the User
Template
location is shared by the Office applications. In regards to the
default
save location of the Design Templates, when the template is
automatically
downloaded to the Client, the Design Template it is supposed to be
saved
to
the User Template location .

I've been working on this issue and have been able to intermittently
reproduce it today. I'll continue to research and get back to the
thread
tomorrow.

Thanks,
John


:

So you're saying you can check the file locations in Word to see where
your
PowerPoint templates are saved to by default when downloaded?

Also, please note that this user is asking about PowerPoint 2003, not
2007.

Do you know why downloaded PowerPoint templates sometimes don't show
up
in
the Slide Design task pane in PowerPoint 2003?

--
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/


"(e-mail address removed)"
<[email protected]>
wrote in message
In my research I could not find a limit either. The default save
location
for the downloaded design tempaltes should be your User Template
folder,
usually at C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\. You can check your User Template
llocation
with
the following procedure...
1. Click on the Word Options button at the bottom of the File Menu.
2. Select "Advanced" in the left nav, scroll to the end of the
"Advanced"
dialog and click on the "File Locations" button.
3. Double click on either the "User" or "Workgroup Template"
settings.
4. This will bring up a directory dialog, now click on the "Look In"
dropdown to see the full hierarchical path.


Check the registry value

:

There's not a limit that I'm aware of -- at least I've never heard
one
mentioned. I have heard (and witnessed) templates not showing up in
the
Design pane, though, even when I've only added one or two. Other
times
it
works fine.

For locating PPT templates, see
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/tutorials.htm -- you want to
look
under PowerPoint Basics, "PowerPont - Locating and Storing Your
Templates"
(either PPT 97-2002 or 2003, whichever is appropriate).

Basically, look in the folder you mentioned, and then also look in
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates

That's my guess as to where they'd end up. And you know, that might
be
why
they're not showing up in the Design pane. Try copying them from
the
Docs
and Settings folder to the Program Files folder with the others and
see
if
that fixes the problem.

--
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/


Thank you for the tips. Actually, the first few of the downloads
did
work
automatically as the instruction said. But later it did not work
again.
There were about 30 design templates showed up. That was why I
thought
maybe
there is a limit on how many template the PPT can load.

Can somebody told me where the templates are stored. I searched
and
only
found one directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\Presentation
Designs has seme of the templates. But not all of them.
--
pc


:

In my experience, you often must download the file and then use
Save
As
in
PPT to save the file to the harddrive. (You'll need to change
the
"save
as
type" to "template *.POT." If you don't do this, you'll save a
PPT
file,
and
that won't ever show up in the Design pane.)

After you use the template a few times (click the Browse button
at
the
bottom of the Slide Design pane to access it), it should start
showing
up
in
the Slide Design pane.

It's a tedious way to go about it. Personally, I think this
should
happen
automatically.

--
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/


In powerpoint 2003, when you open up "design template pane,
the
last
one
was
"download templates on Microsoft office online". Click on it,
bring
me
to
the site. I choose a template and downloaded. It opened an
new
PPt
with
just the template. I closesd my original slide and this new
ppt.
Most
of
my
downloads apprear but not the one I really wanted. I thought
it
was
because
I chose it from 2000 directory. This morning, I downloaded
another
one,
it
did not show up either.

Now I suspect that ppt run out of memory to add more
templates.
But
I
could
not find a way to delete some that I don't really care about
to
make
room
for
the new ones.
--
pc


:

Hi, Can you describe in a little more detail how you
downloaded
the
templates? Is it through Office 2003 search or directly from
Office.Microsoft.com? Are your prompted to Save the template
when
downloading or do they open up directly in PPT? Any other
alerts
appear?

Thanks,
John

:

I downloaded a few templates from Microsoft web. Some of
them
show
up
in my
design templates under slide desiign. But one particular
one:
"global"
does
not show up, no matter how many times I downloaded. I
wonder
if
PowerPoint
2003 can only allow limited number of templates. But I
cannot
find
out
how
to delete some templates to make room. Can anybody tell me
why I
cannot get
this template?

Thanks,

 

[peterfarley]

I want to create a design template for PowerPoint, using a jpeg file. Please
can anyone help

 

[peterfarley]

I want to create a design template using a jpeg. Can anyone help please?

 

[Echo S]

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppcreatemp.html

and http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/tutorials.htm (PowerPoint Basics,
Creating Templates)