Powerpoint => Normal.dot?

[Pieter Doutreligne]

Hello,
Belgium Speaking.

[Sarcasm]I have a very interesting question.[/Sarcasm]
Is there such a thing as a Normal.dot file you would normally find in Word,
but for Powerpoint 2002?

The file would contain all the standard settings.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Echo S]

Hello,
Belgium Speaking.

[Sarcasm]I have a very interesting question.[/Sarcasm]
Is there such a thing as a Normal.dot file you would normally find in Word,
but for Powerpoint 2002?

The file would contain all the standard settings.

Hi, Pieter. Welcome to the PPT newsgroup.

There's a blank.POT or blank presentation.POT for PPT, which works kind
of like Word's Normal.DOT. You might have to create it, though. See
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00245.htm

 

[Thomas H Lindber]

Hello,
Belgium Speaking.

[Sarcasm]I have a very interesting question.[/Sarcasm]
Is there such a thing as a Normal.dot file you would normally find in Word,
but for Powerpoint 2002?

The file would contain all the standard settings.

Hi, Pieter. Welcome to the PPT newsgroup.

There's a blank.POT or blank presentation.POT for PPT, which works kind
of like Word's Normal.DOT. You might have to create it, though. See
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00245.htm

I'm aware of the 'blank.POT' but does it realy contain ALL the ppt-settings?
I have a feeling that some settings always revert to some default ones
whenever ppt is opened, even if I have personalized it in blank.pot. Am I
mistaken or not???

Thomas

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

Hello,
Belgium Speaking.

[Sarcasm]I have a very interesting question.[/Sarcasm]
Is there such a thing as a Normal.dot file you would normally find in Word,
but for Powerpoint 2002?

The file would contain all the standard settings.

Hi, Pieter. Welcome to the PPT newsgroup.

There's a blank.POT or blank presentation.POT for PPT, which works kind
of like Word's Normal.DOT. You might have to create it, though. See
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00245.htm

I'm aware of the 'blank.POT' but does it realy contain ALL the ppt-settings?
I have a feeling that some settings always revert to some default ones
whenever ppt is opened, even if I have personalized it in blank.pot. Am I
mistaken or not???

Blank.pot controls the template PowerPoint uses when you create a new blank
presentation.
If there's no Blank.pot, PowerPoint uses its built-in defaults. If there's
a Blank.pot file available, it uses that instead.

It controls ONLY the types of settings and defaults that can be contained in
a template or presentation and only has an effect when you start a new
presentation based on it or open a presentation that was based on it. And
it only has an effect on document-specific settings.

Application-level settings are controlled by a *.PCB file that stores
menu/toolbar customizations and by a set of registry entries.