Re-formating presentation

[Rita]

I've been asked to reformat a ppt. I've changed the master, but most slides
have been manually formatted (YIKES!) and there are 70+ slides. Is there a
way to "de-format" all the slides at once, then reformat? Or should I
change the slide style and then change it back? Or are there any other
tricks? Or is it easier to simply redo the presentation?

Also, what is the keyboard shortcut for going from the title of the slide to
the body of the slide.
Many thanks in advance.
Rita

 

[PPTMagician]

Change to Slide Sorter view and hold the control key while you click to
select multiple slides. Once the slides are selected, click on Format, Slide
Layout, choose the appropriate layout and choose the drop down "apply layout
to selected slides".

Unfortunately if someone has deleted the placeholders and replaced them with
textboxes this won't help, you'll have to copy and paste from the text boxes
to the placeholders.

The keys are tab and alt-tab

 

[Rita]

Thanks for that. Looks like I'll be mostly copying and pasting.

Regarding keys - tab and alt-tab doesn't seem to work for me. Tab just
inserts a tab where the pointer is and alt-tab goes to another application.
Rita

 

[Rita]

Thank you Glenna and Steve.
Rita

Ctrl+Enter works for me.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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[Rita]

And one more question - selecting the slides and applying slide-format has
identified which slides have text boxes so that minimizes the ordeal a bit.
however, for slides that have the correct layout, but have been manipulated
(e.g. different font size, font colour, change in bullets, etc.) is there a
way to re-format quickly within the structure of the layout or is that too a
manual process?
Thanks again.

 

[PPTMagician]

Click anywhere outside of the slide. If you are within the text area of the
box, tab functions as a text key. I take it you're looking to quickly change
text without having to use the mouse? I would edit the text in the outline
view. You can make changes to text within placeholders very rapidly in the
outline.
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Thanks,
Glenna Shaw
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.pptmagic.com