How Master Slides work?

[Michael]

Does anyone know how Master slides are meant to work? My understanding is
that Master slides provide default formatting values which can be overridden
on the individual slides. This seems to agree with:

"When you change the slide master, changes you have made to individual
slides are preserved."
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HP051954061033.aspx

So I would have thought that if you changed to a different Master slide the
same would be true, where custom formatting would have been kept. However,
this does not appear to be the case for example if I create a new
presentation and change the font on the slide from black to white, then under
2007 changing to various Designs changes the colour of the font between black
and white and under XP it changes it to the same as the background colour
(these are different to the font colour defined in the master slide). So does
this make sense to anyone?

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Michael

This could happen if you have changed the font colour to another colour that
is within the colour scheme, rather than a 'true' manual colour. The
previous sentence will make a great deal more sense if you read this :
http://echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm

Although the articles are written for 2003, the same principles apply to
2007.

Lucy

 

[Michael]

Thanks a lot, this now makes perfect sense.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Glad to hear it. I still remember the first time I read Echo's articles
about colour schemes - the penny finally dropped and I stopped fighting
PowerPoint!

Lucy

--
Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Aw c'mon. Surely you can find something else to fight it over.
Show a little initiative, a little imagination.
Or sit back and wait. It'll come to you on its own. ;-)

I've spent the weekend fighting Word (grumble grumble labels grumble full
bleed pictures grumble grumble). I'm ashamed to say it won :-(

Lucy

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Labels will fight you but you can usually wrestle 'em to the ground and
prevail. Full bleed pictures seem to be the province of DTPware, not
Word.
Or at least Word's done its very best to persuade me so.

It's so frustrating as *some* of the labels are just perfect, but some of
them aren't and I can't figure out what the differences are between the
formatting on those cells/pictures/whatever. <deep breath>. So now I have
all these poor little label-less jars of pickle :-(. If only Ian had picked
the "isolated on white" pictures of fruit, instead of the full bleed ones...

Lucy