Syncing master set between presentations

[jgt]

I have several presentations that use multiple masters within the
presentations. Originally all of the presentations used the same master set
but as I've moved forward I've made a bunch of enhancements to the master
set in one of my presentations. Now I'd like to apply these changes to my
other presentations. How do I take the master set from one presentation and
apply it to another presentations? Is there an easy way to keep the master
set in-sync in all of my presentations?

 

[jgt]

I forgot to mention I'm using office 2007

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi

I would create a new presentation based on the new masters then use home
tab -> new slide drop down -> reuse slide (waaaay down the bottom there) ->
NOT tick 'keep source formatting'. You will need to do a bit of sorting out
when you get there if you are using multiple masters (i.e.select all slides
that should be design 2 -> right click design 2 -> apply to selected
slides).

Lucy

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[jgt]

Ah shucks! I was fearful that it would be something like this. I've created
several presentations for classes that I teach and the files are rather
large (200 to 800 slides) and I currently have 14 different designs in the
master set and as I move forward and make changes to a class I often add
another design or corrections to an existing design. For now I'll have to
live with the fact that the presentations will not have a consistent look,
they are close. I was looking for something like the "normal" template in
Word. In office 2003 if I recall correctly it was easy to apply a different
(updated) template to a word document. Thanks for the feedback.

--
jgt

Hi

I would create a new presentation based on the new masters then use home
tab -> new slide drop down -> reuse slide (waaaay down the bottom
there) -> NOT tick 'keep source formatting'. You will need to do a bit of
sorting out when you get there if you are using multiple masters
(i.e.select all slides that should be design 2 -> right click design 2 ->
apply to selected slides).

Lucy

--
Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

Come say hello at Office DevCon in Sydney
www.officedevcon.com.au