starting over

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Hi, I have 147 slides done by a beginner, no unitformity or continuity. Looks
like first grade work. I need to start over and re-do them, would appreciate
suggestions on how to do this with the least amount of work.

Any shortcuts to just starting from scratch?

Thanks a Bunch,

Denise

 

[Austin Myers]

Honestly, if they are that poorly designed you'll spend more time fixing
them that just starting from scratch with a well thought out plan. BTDT and
it is no fun.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Denise,

Apply a template
Then manually apply 'the same look' to each slide for the items that are not
in a "place holder"

The "pick up and Apply style" tools come in really handy for this.

As does the pptools addin
http://www.pptools.com

cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints, tips and more...

 

[Echo S]

If the creator didn't use placeholders, I'd try to do the bulk of the
cleanup in PPT 2000. In that version, you can drag regular (manual)
textboxes on top of where it says "click to add text" and "click to add
title," and the text will plop itself down in the slide placeholder.

Next, if you have to set title style on the titles (Major Words Are
Capitalized in Title Style, You Know), I would do that in 2000 as well. You
can select all the text then hit Shift+F3 to toggle through a few cases.
Then select the next title text and hit F4, which acts as a repeat key. PPT
2000 does a better job of not capping prepositions and articles in the title
text, whereas in PPT 2002 and 2003, this feature is just plain crappy. EVERY
WORD gets capped, and it's more trouble to fix than it's worth. (I just
have to tell you I was at Microsoft about a month ago, and I was embarrassed
for the speakers -- like Steve Ballmer and Jim Allchin -- because someone
had obviously used the title case feature in PPT 2003, and every A, And and
The was capped. It looked so bad. I just have to roll my eyes, I guess.)

Anyway, then I'd open the file in PPT 2003 and create a couple of
appropriate slide masters -- usually I have a couple different ones for
regular bulleted slides because I almost always end up with a few slides
that have either really long titles -- 3 and 4 lines -- or a ton of
references that won't fit easily in the space designated for them. Then I
apply the appropriate master to the appropriate slides. You can't do that in
PPT 2000, though.

Oh, I'd also create a user-defined graph if there are lots of charts in the
file. Makes it easy to apply the formatting to existing charts -- as long as
the slide color scheme works correctly, that is.

 

[providerslink]

Denise,

Apply a template
Then manually apply 'the same look' to each slide for the items that are not
in a "place holder"

The "pick up and Apply style" tools come in really handy for this.

As does the pptools addin
http://www.pptools.com

cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints, tips and more...





Taj, thanks very much I will try that

Denise

 

[providerslink]

If the creator didn't use placeholders, I'd try to do the bulk of the
cleanup in PPT 2000. In that version, you can drag regular (manual)
textboxes on top of where it says "click to add text" and "click to add
title," and the text will plop itself down in the slide placeholder.

Next, if you have to set title style on the titles (Major Words Are
Capitalized in Title Style, You Know), I would do that in 2000 as well. You
can select all the text then hit Shift+F3 to toggle through a few cases.
Then select the next title text and hit F4, which acts as a repeat key. PPT
2000 does a better job of not capping prepositions and articles in the title
text, whereas in PPT 2002 and 2003, this feature is just plain crappy. EVERY
WORD gets capped, and it's more trouble to fix than it's worth. (I just
have to tell you I was at Microsoft about a month ago, and I was embarrassed
for the speakers -- like Steve Ballmer and Jim Allchin -- because someone
had obviously used the title case feature in PPT 2003, and every A, And and
The was capped. It looked so bad. I just have to roll my eyes, I guess.)

Anyway, then I'd open the file in PPT 2003 and create a couple of
appropriate slide masters -- usually I have a couple different ones for
regular bulleted slides because I almost always end up with a few slides
that have either really long titles -- 3 and 4 lines -- or a ton of
references that won't fit easily in the space designated for them. Then I
apply the appropriate master to the appropriate slides. You can't do that in
PPT 2000, though.

Oh, I'd also create a user-defined graph if there are lots of charts in the
file. Makes it easy to apply the formatting to existing charts -- as long as
the slide color scheme works correctly, that is.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi, I have 147 slides done by a beginner, no unitformity or continuity. Looks
like first grade work. I need to start over and re-do them, would appreciate
suggestions on how to do this with the least amount of work.

Any shortcuts to just starting from scratch?

Thanks a Bunch,

Denise

Echo S, thank you I will give this a try!

Denise