Missing Title Master

[Ridge Kennedy]

The Title Master is visible in View>Master, but does not appear in the
Design Task Pane so that it can be applied to a slide. Any pointers
appreciated. (Office 2003, WinXP Workstations.)

Ridge (embarassed to ask) in New Joisey

 

[Luc]

Ridge,
As far as I know this is normal behaviour. Only the slide master(s) appear
in the task pane.

 

[John Wilson]

You will only see the slide master in the design pane. To apply a title
master to a slide apply the slide master and then choose the title layout in
the layout pane.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Ridge

Don't be embarrased - it's not an obvious thing in powerpoint - and you're
not the 1st to ask..



perhaps you do not have a 'title master'

view menu > masters >slide master > press the Page down key

did the master change ?

if it did not then you don't have a title master

insert menu > new title master

now you have a true 'title master'

to apply it to your slides, you need to select the "title slide" as the
"layout"

confusing isn't it?

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[Ridge Kennedy]

Thank you, all.

Sincerely,

R.

 

[Ridge Kennedy]

Ummm, and an additional note my workaround, until y'all got me pointed in
the right direction . . .

I discovered that if I created an insertion point at the very top of the
thumbnail views on the left side of the app window (above the first slide in
the column -- a little tricky to get it there, but do-able) then when I
"insert" a slide, it's a "title" slide. Insert a slide anywhere else, and
it's the regular content master layout. And of course, once the "title"
slide was made, I could move it wherever.

R.

 

[Ridge Kennedy]

I thought posted a thank you to respondents for your help, but it didn't
seem to have stuck. So I will repeat myself. Thnak you.

Sincerely,

R.