Implementing cororate design in template

[Brad]

Hi, Does anyone have experience or advice on how to ensure proper use of our
corporate design?

more specifically:
1.) How to prevent users from moving or changing a textbox (our slide master
has a slide with a "title" text box, and a "bullet pointed" text box. We'd
like our users to be able to edit the text, but not change the font sizes,
move these text boxes, etc.)

2.) How to define more than four default colors that are used whenever
creating a chart. (I can define more than four on a local machine, but I'm
looking for a solution that will work for the whole company when they use
the ".pot" file.

Any advice or links to articles would be appreciated.
Thanks! Brad

 

[Sandy]

1). Sorry, but you cannot lock the formatting in PowerPoint.
2). You can create multiple color schemes, then apply them to slides as
needed. To aid in preventing others from being creative with colors, delete
all other color schemes (although this doesn't prevent them from creating new
colors).

 

[Brad]

Thanks for the quick reply. You saved me lots of time.
Brad

"Sandy"

 

[Your private technical support]

A custom-written PowerPoint add-in can do what you're after, but for it to

work, it'd need to be installed on all of your users' computers.

Will an embedded VBA macro do this? This will help avoid the
installation.

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