slide master

[stephanie]

I've got a problem. Lots of people work on a presentation and add slides.
When they do this, they also add masters. I am wondering why it is possible
to add a new master in a presentation by default.
Secondly, how can I know which master corresponds to which slide?

Thank you for your answer (I hope I was clear enough

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

PPT does ask whether you want to add the extra masters, but you are right -
the default is to add them. To some extent, this is a training issue -
remind those working on the presentation to say no when asked if they want
all the masters added. That will add only the ones that are used.

As for knowing which master goes with which slide... Bring up the slide
design task pane. Hover your mouse over each of the masters that shows in
"used in this document". The text will tell you if the master is used or
not. In addition, if the master is used, it will tell you which slides use
it.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[stephanie]

Thank so much Kathy for your quick answer !
It is clear and I learned a thing on Powerpoint

 

[Lee]

Hi there -
You said -- > As for knowing which master goes with which slide... Bring up
the slide design task pane. Hover your mouse over each of the masters that
shows in
"used in this document". The text will tell you if the master is used or
not. In addition, if the master is used, it will tell you which slides use
it."

my "hover" results show some slides that use the master and then just
provides an ellipsis... Is there a way to run a report or view that shows the
list of masters and the slides using each? (Yes, trying to fix messes and
create a clean template...)

thanks

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Cool toy Steve! Love it!

--
--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and Powerpoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Lee]

Absolutely a cool toy! And more than I imagined on your site -- thanks much!

One caveat however, I have a file with 257 slides and for some reason, the
code provides me the information only from slide 59 onward... is there a cap?
thanks!
Lee

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

I did some quick limit testing... It seems that the debug window wraps at
between 190 and 200 slides. Your mileage may vary depending on how many
masters you have in the file. You could always split the macro in two, one
for the first 190 slides, one for the rest....

--
--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and Powerpoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

You read my mind - that is just what I was going to ask for! (Now if you
really wanted to make me happy, you could show that report in a nicely
formatted window so that I can see it and work to fix things at the same
time.....)

--
--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and Powerpoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

I did some quick limit testing... It seems that the debug window wraps at
between 190 and 200 slides. Your mileage may vary depending on how many
masters you have in the file. You could always split the macro in two,
one
for the first 190 slides, one for the rest....

[dopeslaps self]
Duh!

Yeah, that's it. Good call.
The window only shows a limited number of lines.

Round Two:

Show me a list of designs and which slides use them
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00820.htm

It now outputs the report to REPORT.TXT in the same folder as the
presentation
and should work on Windows or ThinkDifferent computers.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[Lee]

So cool to have such great responses....
Tried the new script to output the report.txt but stops at
"Open oPres.Path & PathSep & "REPORT.TXT" For Output As FileNum"

Error is "Run-time error 91: Object variable or With block variable not set"

thanks however, I am on the right road!
Lee

 

[Lee]

You are AWESOME!
Many thanks
Lee

Oops. One more round?

This one should fix that problem and also make Kathy a little happier ... it'll fire
up the report in Notepad.

Show me a list of designs and which slides use them
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00820.htm