How to apply master slide to existing slides in PowerPoint (Office2004, Mac)

[douglerner]

Hi - I hope somebody can help - I've been going crazy trying to apply
a master slide to existing slides in a presentation. This is
PowerPoint in Office 2004 (Mac OS X).

What I've done is add a text box containing navigation links above the
title area in the slide master (blank presentation). If I create new
slides, the text box in the master slide appears. But for the life of
me I can't get the master slide elements to show up in the existing
slides.

PowerPoint built-in Help seems to say just (1) select the slides in
sorter view, (2) view the master slide and (3) click "close."

But that doesn't seem to do anything at all.

I could probably recreate all the slides one-by-one as new slides by
copying items from the old slides to new slides. But I am hoping there
is something dumb I am overlooking.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

doug

 

[douglerner]

I figured it out. It was in Format > Slide Layout.

In the slide sorter I selected all the slides, chose a blank layout
and did "reapply." That worked.

Whew.

doug

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi

Really glad to hear you got it sorted out. Just for future reference, you
landed in amongst PC users so if you have more questions/problems you are
probably better off heading over to the Mac group:
Mac discussion groups
http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/
microsoft.public.mac.office.powerpoint

Lucy